Please help my poor bean plants

[GAmomto5]

We have three raised beds with speckled butter beans, green beans and purple hull peas planted in pure compost (no other soil added). They all grew to about 6-8 inches and have now stopped. They have been getting sufficient water so I'm not sure what is going on. Do I need to amend the compost any, like add more compost or add some other kind of "fertilizer?" It just seems like everybody else's garden around here looks great, and all we have are some poor little bean plants

Can anyone help? BTW, we are in sweltering GA, but again, they are getting enough water (I'm pretty sure )

[Rhiannon Feimorgan]

pictures?

[JamieCatheryn]

Beans don't need a lot of fertilizer or compost really. I think it offends them, they are nitrogen fixing and they don't want our help, or something. Mine grow small like that then take a break for a while then they shoot up. How long have they stopped? Some of mine stopped growing a very long time because a bug ate holes in leaves so they had to recover from that, then they grew. No sign of bug/animal/disease damage on these I suppose?

[GAmomto5]

Originally Posted by JamieCatheryn

Beans don't need a lot of fertilizer or compost really. I think it offends them, they are nitrogen fixing and they don't want our help, or something. Mine grow small like that then take a break for a while then they shoot up. How long have they stopped? Some of mine stopped growing a very long time because a bug ate holes in leaves so they had to recover from that, then they grew. No sign of bug/animal/disease damage on these I suppose?

For some reason I can't get my pictures to upload, but. . . there may be some bug damage (a little). Some of the leaves are almost like there is a netting on them or something, but not too many. Since I planted in nothing but compost, do you think that is what is wrong with them? Everybody in my family keeps telling me to put 10-10-10 on them and I keep resisting. They probably stopped growing around 2 weeks or so ago. They shot up fast in the beginning and then just stopped. A few of the green bean plants have some beans on them, but I don't think they are going to mature because the plants are so small. Is there something I SHOULD put on them to help?

[JamieCatheryn]

Perhaps an organic insecticide or repellant would help protect them, one that is good for some diseases too maybe. Hopefully they do like mine and just take a little time to recover then they'll shoot up.