Nice fade out with the lead-in music. Well Done! I just bought scarlet runner beans to plant next year. I have winged beans from last year that will also be planted in spring. Both are perennial vines. I live in north Texas, but am expecting cooler weather now-a-days. Seems to be our new normal.
Romano beans are awesome...I grow an old Italian heritage variety that a local old Italian lady gave me some seeds for a few years ago...amazingly productive and the taste is awesome! I just spray a little olive oil on them, kosher salt and ground pepper and grill them on the BBQ...amazing! :) Thanks for another great video Greg, work I my way through all of them! Spent the day cleaning out my big compost bin to get the good soil from the bottom for spring seeding, spreading my final horse manure on my beds and bringing in a bunch of firewood for the big winter storm we are expecting tomorrow! Cheers man and stay warm!
I have rattlesnake beans this year. They were by far the most productive. Then Cherokee Trail of Tears and Greasy Grit beans. Those confused me as to when the right time to pick so I've left them to mature and will shell them for soup. Plus right now finally the purple long thai beans are producing and I'll be able to pick a handful of them tonight. With the pole beans I harvested 37 pounds of beans!! I was giving them away because there's enough in the freezer. I'm not picking anymore and letting the pods mature. The rattlesnake beans have enormous pods when they are fully grown. I have bean overdose this year. My place is too small to use up space for bush beans. This is Toronto and the humid heat has brought fungal infection on the leaves. So I'm picking them off when they show signs of disease. I have no idea if the plants will put on a new growth or if leaving pods on the plants will suppress new growth. What do you think?
Hello from Oregon. My growing season is longer than yours. I am impressed with the amount of produce you grow. I have learned so much from your videos. Thank you!
Great video. I’m picking about 15 to 20 pounds of beans every week. Just three varieties of bush beans. I put my “fall” beans in 17 days ago and they are growing like crazy. Our normal frost date in this part of Ontario is mid-to-early October.
I was curious to pick your mind on another question; so say you put down the bush beans or the pole beans whatever to rejuvenate the soil... is there a way of telling how many inches/feet or whatever around the base of the plant how far does that soil rejuvenation go?
Great vid Greg. My first big year growing and my beans were ok until the slugs, Japanese beetles, flea beetles came and gobbled them up. I’m hoping things improve for next year, better soil, less bug pressure. It can get bad in the Nova Scotia bush!
Get some of that slug & snail killer. You only need it when the plants are young - once they are about a foot high they somehow seem to be able to resist slug damage
Hi Greg, don't worry, this video is of use to at least one southern hemisphere gardener - I'm on holiday (I'm in Canada now, actually), but as soon as I get home, I'll be planting seeds, and I have plans for peas and beans, among other things. :)
I'm coming from clay soil in our area. Will your idea of converting it to good soil with wood chips work to treat clay soil? I'd tried to do some beans in the past and it worked and i got beans but it wasn't a lot of production. How do you keep the deer out of your garden? I'd even heard of some deer being able to jump fences? (Or did the people saying that just not know there was a hole in the fence?)
q1: for more immediate results with clay soil I'd just work in some manure. q2: my 5' fence seems to keep them out, although it's well established that an 8' fence is the best option. Of course, my fence has barbed wire along the top - so maybe that's why it works.
Fantastic crop..down here in Indiana my beans both pole and bush did terrible..as did most peoples we talk to..we literally went from winter to summer with very little spring and the temps shooting up into the 90's and over..
I’m having a crazy good bean harvest this year. Dwarf French Filet, EZ Gold, and two kinds of pole beans, green and gold. We never get tired of eating them, but I’ve been giving some away. Today I packed a large mason jar to ferment the extras. I find the yellow bush beans are the hardiest, the fastest growing, and resist slugs the best. Is that why they’re so popular? I also have runner beans to attract hummingbirds. I grow those to the end and collect the seeds for drying. Last fall i made some bean soup with them. I just poked them in my raised bed when the ground was warm. When they got established, I mulched them with lots of shredded leaves and never had to weed or water.
You plant them the same way I do - so easy isn't it! My guess with the yellow beans is that people like them because they are yellow :) flavour-wise I think green beans have more going on - but people tend to eat with their eyes - so yellow wins!
My first planting of beans were a disaster,the weather got hot and dry,and they just basically died,I planted a second crop and their doing a lot better,I may just have some beans.Great video,enjoyed it,thanks Greg.Oh,one question,the year I sowed vining beans all I got was a lot of vines and leaves.You do any thing special with your vining beans?
I do nothing with them other than to put the seed in the ground and help them find the trellis. Hard to understand why it didn't work for you. Try planting them somewhere else next year - perhaps the soil where you had them was too rich?
I was out in my garden yesterday when a baby snake slider into my merrigolds before I could get it with a rake. Now I am leery about picking bean.that are near . I don'r recognize snakes. My neighbor said they killed a cottonmouth last week..She said they are bad this year. Do you have any words of wisdon for me?
All the snakes here are basically harmless. I see them all the time but they run away, and even if they did bite it would not be a big deal. I have no experience with venomous snakes. Perhaps probe first with a stick or rake to make sure the coast is clear?
Great bean harvest! However, why are you saying it's fall? Fall doesn't start until almost a month from now! I don't see any leaves falling or even turning around here. Also, the beans only help the soil if you turn them into the soil at the end of the season - they fix nitrogen on their own roots for their own use, not to be generous.
Nice fade out with the lead-in music. Well Done! I just bought scarlet runner beans to plant next year. I have winged beans from last year that will also be planted in spring. Both are perennial vines. I live in north Texas, but am expecting cooler weather now-a-days. Seems to be our new normal.
Thanks
Romano beans are awesome...I grow an old Italian heritage variety that a local old Italian lady gave me some seeds for a few years ago...amazingly productive and the taste is awesome! I just spray a little olive oil on them, kosher salt and ground pepper and grill them on the BBQ...amazing! :) Thanks for another great video Greg, work I my way through all of them! Spent the day cleaning out my big compost bin to get the good soil from the bottom for spring seeding, spreading my final horse manure on my beds and bringing in a bunch of firewood for the big winter storm we are expecting tomorrow! Cheers man and stay warm!
They exceptionally good tasting for sure
I have rattlesnake beans this year. They were by far the most productive. Then Cherokee Trail of Tears and
Greasy Grit beans. Those confused me as to when the right time to pick so I've left them to mature and will
shell them for soup. Plus right now finally the purple long thai beans are producing and I'll be able to pick a
handful of them tonight. With the pole beans I harvested 37 pounds of beans!! I was giving them away because
there's enough in the freezer. I'm not picking anymore and letting the pods mature. The rattlesnake beans have
enormous pods when they are fully grown. I have bean overdose this year.
My place is too small to use up space for bush beans.
This is Toronto and the humid heat has brought fungal infection on the leaves. So I'm picking them off when they
show signs of disease. I have no idea if the plants will put on a new growth or if leaving pods on the plants will
suppress new growth. What do you think?
Leaving the pods on should slow them down.
Hello from Oregon. My growing season is longer than yours. I am impressed with the amount of produce you grow. I have learned so much from your videos. Thank you!
Thanks!
Great video. I’m picking about 15 to 20 pounds of beans every week. Just three varieties of bush beans. I put my “fall” beans in 17 days ago and they are growing like crazy. Our normal frost date in this part of Ontario is mid-to-early October.
That's a lot of beans!
Youre setting up your walking paths with wood chips that'll grow great red cap mushrooms.
Nice
I was curious to pick your mind on another question; so say you put down the bush beans or the pole beans whatever to rejuvenate the soil... is there a way of telling how many inches/feet or whatever around the base of the plant how far does that soil rejuvenation go?
No easy way that I know of.
Great vid Greg. My first big year growing and my beans were ok until the slugs, Japanese beetles, flea beetles came and gobbled them up. I’m hoping things improve for next year, better soil, less bug pressure. It can get bad in the Nova Scotia bush!
Get some of that slug & snail killer. You only need it when the plants are young - once they are about a foot high they somehow seem to be able to resist slug damage
Hi Greg, don't worry, this video is of use to at least one southern hemisphere gardener - I'm on holiday (I'm in Canada now, actually), but as soon as I get home, I'll be planting seeds, and I have plans for peas and beans, among other things. :)
Man it would be great if I could plant beans this time of year!
I'm coming from clay soil in our area. Will your idea of converting it to good soil with wood chips work to treat clay soil? I'd tried to do some beans in the past and it worked and i got beans but it wasn't a lot of production. How do you keep the deer out of your garden? I'd even heard of some deer being able to jump fences? (Or did the people saying that just not know there was a hole in the fence?)
q1: for more immediate results with clay soil I'd just work in some manure.
q2: my 5' fence seems to keep them out, although it's well established that an 8' fence is the best option. Of course, my fence has barbed wire along the top - so maybe that's why it works.
Fantastic crop..down here in Indiana my beans both pole and bush did terrible..as did most peoples we talk to..we literally went from winter to summer with very little spring and the temps shooting up into the 90's and over..
I can't comprehend heat like that!
I’m having a crazy good bean harvest this year. Dwarf French Filet, EZ Gold, and two kinds of pole beans, green and gold. We never get tired of eating them, but I’ve been giving some away. Today I packed a large mason jar to ferment the extras. I find the yellow bush beans are the hardiest, the fastest growing, and resist slugs the best. Is that why they’re so popular?
I also have runner beans to attract hummingbirds. I grow those to the end and collect the seeds for drying. Last fall i made some bean soup with them.
I just poked them in my raised bed when the ground was warm. When they got established, I mulched them with lots of shredded leaves and never had to weed or water.
You plant them the same way I do - so easy isn't it! My guess with the yellow beans is that people like them because they are yellow :) flavour-wise I think green beans have more going on - but people tend to eat with their eyes - so yellow wins!
I loved your video, and I learned a lot. Next year I'll be sure to plant green beans. Beautiful garden!
Thanks!
My first planting of beans were a disaster,the weather got hot and dry,and they just basically died,I planted a second crop and their doing a lot better,I may just have some beans.Great video,enjoyed it,thanks Greg.Oh,one question,the year I sowed vining beans all I got was a lot of vines and leaves.You do any thing special with your vining beans?
I do nothing with them other than to put the seed in the ground and help them find the trellis. Hard to understand why it didn't work for you. Try planting them somewhere else next year - perhaps the soil where you had them was too rich?
Maritime Gardening interesting. I wonder now if my soil was too rich with horse manure this year. The beans I planted really struggled this year!
I was out in my garden yesterday when a baby snake slider into my merrigolds before I could get it with a rake. Now I am leery about picking bean.that are near . I don'r recognize snakes. My neighbor said they killed a cottonmouth last week..She said they are bad this year. Do you have any words of wisdon for me?
All the snakes here are basically harmless. I see them all the time but they run away, and even if they did bite it would not be a big deal. I have no experience with venomous snakes. Perhaps probe first with a stick or rake to make sure the coast is clear?
Will do ! Definitely !
Another great video!!
Thanks :)
Great bean harvest! However, why are you saying it's fall? Fall doesn't start until almost a month from now! I don't see any leaves falling or even turning around here. Also, the beans only help the soil if you turn them into the soil at the end of the season - they fix nitrogen on their own roots for their own use, not to be generous.
I leave the roots in the soil. You're right, it's not fall yet, poor choice of words.
Can you do the mustard beans for me?
I'll see if I can find the time - here's the basic recipe: www.geniuskitchen.com/recipe/mustard-bean-pickles-202799#activity-feed
Maritime Gardening just like piccalilli
I have rattlesnakes but they aren't beans !
Not quite as tasty!