Which bush bean is the best?
tatton95
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My bush green beans have stopped producing beans. Normal?
Comments (13)I agree with previous posts - my bush beans always put out heavy crops for a month, stop, then restart again and produce up until frost. In fact I cover them for protection from the early frosts to extend the harvest. They stopped producing earlier than usual this year due to heat stress. I am certain they will kick in again if we get a break from the heat - in fact just today I noticed new flower buds are developing. Keep watering them as needed while they are dormant if you are not getting any rain. I am currently harvesting my pole beans, which will carry me over until the bush beans kick in production again. I feel that planting both bush and pole beans is the best strategy for this very reason, if a person has the gardening space. Planting successive crops never really works that well for me because the same heat that shuts down production of the established bush beans also stresses the younger bush bean plants, causing them to stunt and produce mediocre quality beans. But it is always good to try different methods to judge for yourself....See MoreDo pole beans taste better than bush beans?
Comments (2)Fran Berner Landfrauen is definitely a very good bean, extremely tasty. However it has one disadvantage and that is its lateness. So I urge you to grow at least one other. For example Kwintus, which will go right through the season and produce early and late. Another you might like to try is Kentucky Wonder. A yellow wax bean, Neckargold, also produces early. You can never grow too many different tall growing beans. I usually grow over 20 varieties every year. Do they taste better? Not necessarily, but there are many more tall varieties than bush varieties, so you have much wider choice. Often bush varieties are agri-business varieties because they can be machine harvested. High yielding and ripening all pods evenly on the same day. Not so good for gardeners who want to harvest over a long period. I cannot promise that the tall varieties I grow and love will taste equally good at your location, because weather and soil and cultivation influences flavour, but I can promise that you will find a huge choice of tasty beans amongst the tall varieties. They may need trellising, but it is so much easier to pick standing upright, than having to bend and stoop. Good luck...See MoreWhich beans are best for Poles?
Comments (6)IMO, the best pole bean for me and mine bar none is Louisiana Purple Pod. I've grown it is my exclusive every year pole "green" bean for over thirty years now. Productive to beat the band, disease and pest resistant and only the worst of droughts will faze it with little to no summer slump when the heat hits. The only downside is it's like okra must be picked on schedule every third day, it's that productive. Careful of limas and kids. Raw lima beans contain linamarin which can make people ill if raw limas are eaten in large quantities, cooking destroys this compound. It's not really an issue though as I've nibbled on raw beans all my life and my four year old treats them like candy but it is there and published in the literature so use caution. Also the pod of limas is inedilbe with a stiff point that could cause problems if a child were to eat a whole pod. If you want a really good heirloom (Louisiana Purple is also an heirloom) I like the Rattlesnake for good old fashioned bean flavor (stronger and meatier) as this was what I grew up on before switching to my purple beans. It's a bean that is about as tough as they come just not as prolific as the purple....See Morebush beans with pole bean?
Comments (7)I've currently got 710 seeds with a few more on their way to me. Probably 800 seeds overall of pole, lima, and bush beans. I've got no lack of corn to grow them up but I worry that the strong pole beans will pull the corn down. I'm using mostly field types to grow things up and then I have 2 59' rows- one of those rows will be Logan Giant beans and I'm trying to convince my parents to let me take the other row for the rest of my pole beans. I really want to save lots of seeds so I can share them next season with people in my area who aren't very educated about growing heirlooms. Abby...See Morebooberry85
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