Stupid pole bean question....

jkdistad 6/11/2010, 4:13 pm

Stupid question, not stupid beans, well, at least not yet... don't know if my beans are stupid yet... Stupid pole bean question.... Icon_lol

anyhoo.... I have 8 beans per square but they are all bunched around the bases of my bamboo tee-pee... basically, 4 plants at the base of each pole... do I need to thin them out (to 2 at the base of each pole), is this too crowded, or can I just leave them be? Here's a pic for reference....

a couple of my squared only have 7 plants cuz the stupid birds thought the beans looked yummy when they first sprouted... Stupid pole bean question.... Icon_mad

Patty from Yorktown 6/11/2010, 4:53 pm

Hi,

Should be just fine the way they are. I plant my beans a little more spread out, but not much.

Patty from Yorktown

Megan 6/11/2010, 9:55 pm

Have any of you tried succession planting with pole beans in the same square?

I have two squares of pole beans... one with 4 plants, one with 3. They are both growing very well. Would it work to plant a few more beans in the same squares to increase and stagger the harvest??

Patty from Yorktown 6/11/2010, 10:20 pm

Hi,
Last year was the year I figured out pole beans. Pole beans will produce a small harvest at a time (per plant) however they produce over the whole season. (I hope I said that correctly.) So if you have a bunch of plants you should easily get a meals worth of fresh beans at many different times over the summer. Bush beans produce two crops and they do it all at once. I do not think that you really need to plant staggered pole beans. Hope this helps.

Patty in Yorktown who had fresh beans for dinner

Megan 6/11/2010, 10:23 pm

Yay! Thank you.

Sponsored content

Stupid pole bean question....

Stupid pole bean question....

Re: Stupid pole bean question....

Re: Stupid pole bean question....

Re: Stupid pole bean question....

Re: Stupid pole bean question....

Re: Stupid pole bean question....


	Hello Guest! Welcome to the official Square Foot Gardening Forum. There's lots to learn here by reading as a guest. However, if you become a member (it's free, ad free and spam-free) you'll have access to our large vermiculite databases, our seed exchange spreadsheets, Mel's Mix calculator, and many more members' pictures in the Gallery. Enjoy.