New Trick - Bush Beans Produce all Summer 💥💥💥 Bush Beans vs Pole Beans - Selecting the right one.

Are Bush Beans really Determinant? Get them to produce all summer.

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New Trick - Bush Beans Produce all Summer 💥💥💥 Bush Beans vs Pole Beans - Selecting the right one.
Bush beans can be grown as indeterminant plans so they produce all summer - just keep harvesting.

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[zeldaharris]

I have always done this and thought everybody did as well. I plant one crop of bush beans for the entire season and just keep picking them. They become less vigorous as the season progresses but they keep cropping until the cold weather them off.

[kgarden]

Here in UK we have two types of climbing (pole) bean - Climbing French Beans and Runner Beans - and we also have Dwarf French beans (Bush). I sow Dwarf French Bush early (indoors, protected) and plant out, after last frost, along the edge of the row that I will use for Climbing Beans, and then I sow the Climbers a bit later than normal (they hate the cold / wind, and as climbers their height gets them exposed before the Summer is fully here - and of course I have the Bush ones for my early crop). Once the Climbing Beans start producing I stop picking from the Bush plants, so that they mature to keep as seed. I then sow some more Bush plants around mid July, plant out mid August, for the Autumn crop. I find that the Climbing French beans stop producing a fair bit before the cold Autumn weather arrives (although Runner Beans carry on longer), and also by then the pods they produce are less tasty. Not enough time for this second Bush crop to make seed, hence why I take seed from the first crop. Before I did this I used to sow-a-seed when I planted out the climbing bean plants, so that would come on a bit later for a "second crop", amongst the first crop.

[DerMelissa]

I've been harvesting from my bush beans for weeks...best year ever! I don't know why but I'll take it.I picked every other day

[farmfaithfamily-rcf]

Yep! Done this for years. Good video !

[dp]

Going to try this with my beans this summer. Thanks for the tips!

[dahutful]

You are exactly right, Robert. I hit on this idea myself. Unfortunately, here in South Carolina it simply becomes too hot in the summer for your average green mean. So, I grow both bush and pole beans in the spring. Then, when it gets hot enough for them to start fading out, I just chop them down and compost them into the soil. Then in September, at the first sign of cooling, I plant some more of the earliest green beans I can find. These will very often grow right on through into November for us.
There is a gap in summer, but I have peppers and tomatoes and other things to fill the void.

[nickthegardener.]

I only grew bush bean last year and they produced from July until November. I’m growing pole and bush this year as we loved em.👍🏻🤠

[racebiketuner]

Seems like my aunt knew this trick. She would send my cousin and I to pick beans every day for that night's dinner.

[crishamilton]

Excellent and timely. I recently yanked my mildewy cukes and planted bush beans. It was a crap shoot… if we have extended warm weather I should have some beans. Good to know for next year! Thank you.

[Lochness]

I'm having the same results as you with bush beans. They started producing in early-mid July, still am, and no signs of slowing down. Oakville, ON Zone 6.

[stillpoint]

yes, my bush beans keep giving me beans for months!

[paulsr.dicrispino]

My bush beans did well early summer. My pole bean flowered latter and then we had extreme hot weather. The flowers disappeared. I got just a few beans. Do you think the heat killed the flowers?

[bakthawarbehroozbhagesh]

Sir good day, I will be planting string beans next week after I clean the garden full of squash plant. But I've noticed the roots of some squash plants have been infested with root-knot nematodes. Is there any organic way to get rid or prevent it from infecting my string beans?

[xuyahfish]

I thought Lima Beans were a broad bean, like Fava, so I didn't grow them bc my spring is too short, but I recently found they are much more like Green Beans?!

[christopherherron]

I'd like to know what variety of bush bean you're planting. I suspect different bush varieties would vary in tolerance of attempts to extend their fruiting, and it would be worth an experiment. Thanks from Hardiness Zone 7a.

[susana]

Thank you! I always did what my mother did and it’s not always the best. Maybe since she’s from southern Japan vs here in So Cal..?
When I planted bush beans I had issues with bugs and other things that would kill off the beans plants. The pole beans had less issues up until we started having rats from a neighbors new orange tree that he never kept up on. He never takes not one orange because of the rats “touching” the oranges. Yet he won’t cut down the orange tree.
I’ve tried to recommend some things but to no avail.
Now the rats have been caught havoc in the garden. Plus I read that the rats will “remember” a food source for several years!
I don’t know what to do to keep the rats from eating everything I could grow.
Any advice would be appreciated.👍💖🙏🏻

[tobruz]

Has anyone tried pruning the tops of pole beans?
I have mine on a 9 foot tall trellis and they bunch up at the top making them hard to pick because of the height and the bunching. If the tops were pruned would it make more side shoots down lower or just at the top?

[evalopez]

Question PLEASE??? 🙏When should you pick the flowers & when not to & on which plants?? 🤷‍♀️ I heard some plants are done with their life cycle once they flower, but you can pick the flower heads to keep them producing longer. Or to help young plants grow bigger, such as with cucumber & pepper plants. So I picked all the first flowers of my young bean plants... but then saw a vid saying to pick excess foliage to spur more flowers to grow.
I'm so confused. 😒

[stephenmoberg]

My experience is a tremendous first harvest and very much diminished thereafter. I do 3-4 pickings, then they are done.

[jeffreysmith]

Pick them for sure and; avoid nitrogen fertilizer.