newgrow
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| Posted: Sun Apr 05, 2009 8:03 pm Post subject: Do green beans keep growing? |
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Well it's green beans and romaine lettuce for dinner tonight, but I was wandering after I pick the beans will the plant continue making more or do I need to pull it up and plant more down? I have planted 5 beans every 2 weeks also just in case.
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glendann
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| Posted: Sun Apr 05, 2009 8:08 pm Post subject: |
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When you pick green beans it is a signal it needs to produce more until warm weather tells them to stop they will produce.I hope I haven't told you wrong but thats the way mine always has done.Beans and peas act like that but peas are a good summer veggie.
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newgrow
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| Posted: Sun Apr 05, 2009 8:40 pm Post subject: |
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Oh so green beans will stop making in the hotter summer? Wow did not know that I might have to re plane my garden.
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glendann
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| Posted: Sun Apr 05, 2009 8:51 pm Post subject: |
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I make mine last longer by planting them where they get morning sun and evening shade.
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EJ
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Here in the not so sunny UK our runner beans are considered to prefer cooler temperatures. I don't know if this is the same for french beans. You don't mention if your bean plants are dwarf or climbers? Dwarf beans in my experience, make a first flush of flowers, then you get a few more, and that tends to be it. Pole beans that climb make flowers along the stems for a much longer period so you can harvest beans, hopefully, for the whole of the summer and into the autumn. If there are no apparent flower buds on your bean plants, I would be tempted to pull them out and plant something else. And if possible, grow your next batch of beans in the shade of another plant.
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newgrow
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| Posted: Sun Apr 05, 2009 11:16 pm Post subject: |
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aaaahh! That sounds good. Mine are bush beans but next year I am going to do pole beans for they take up less space. I harvested 4 plants tonight and got enough for just me and the wife.Is that good or not so much? Also what about cauliflower, is it a cooler weather veggie also? I just bought some that are about 4 inches tall to replace my broccoli.
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| Posted: Mon Apr 06, 2009 12:22 am Post subject: |
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Here in zone 5 I get 2 cycles out of my bush beans. I will have a big harvest time followed by a rest period and then another harvest. Usually by the time that is over I have frost so I don't know if I would get another harvest or not.
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