A Few Thoughts on Growing Beans
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Here's a Transylvanian green beans salad: cut the petioles from the beans, cut them in bite size, steam/boil them, then mix with a bit of finely minced garlic and a bit of vinegar. All that, plus salt, to taste. Chill in the fridge, but room temp is OK.
The bird looks like a grey catbird. Great garden.
Huw Richards made peace with his weeds, even if we're talking about weeds that are not edible. Apparently, they are good for the soil, the root exudates attract bacteria, followed by the critters that eat bacteria (nematodes?), and then earthworms, etc... So, it seems, it's better to have roots in the ground, even if they're weeds, than not have them.
The veg roots do the same thing, but when you have weeds they compete for sunlight, nutrients and water. You can't make peace with that. Lots of permaculture guys say that the weeds are ok - and in some instances they are fine, but in general they take over the garden and out-compete you veg for resources
Great video, I love BEANS! I think that's a cowbird.
yep! Yay for beans!
Also snow peas.
Pumpkin & brassicas in autumn
I agree. If I could only grow a few things for the rest of my life, Beans would be my number one. Zucchini my number two. Both give tons of food with little effort. And I never get tired of eating either one. - Amanda GTG
Bird looks like a purple Martin.
Your garden is looking great this year
Scarlet emperor is the classic pole bean, here. It produces long flat green pods, you can eat whole like a French bean. Or you can let them mature, and dry the beans for use in other winter filler dishes. It also looks nice with lots of little scarlet flowers, and is very easy to grow. So maybe add a new pole bean to the mix.
But I think that's only worthwhile doing if it's one you're going to dry them for use later. Beans tend to swamp you with produce you need to use up or store, as is.
Oh, that my beans could have your cool climate.
They are a two season crop here in South Carolina - summer is a dead zone for beans.
Rattlesnake pole beans are awesome! Blue Lake pole & Provider bush are great too, but rattlesnake are IMHO far superior in flavor, and they look really cool. I just picked & processed a few pounds of rattlesnake beans this morning. And yes, with beans & peas pick all of those ones at the bottom first. If you miss a few the plant thinks it's done. Pick everything daily.
Those long beans grown like
2 ft long I just love them in Hawai'i we call them Philippino long bean's. You're right they just keep giving
Provider have always been a favourite of mine. Growing rattlesnake pole beans this year, too. They're just starting to produce. I think that's a grackle eating your berries. They are greedy birds, for sure.
Hi Greg, another great video, thanks. I grow 3 varieties of pole beans every year- Fortex (green), Carminat (purple) and Monte Gusto (yellow). All three are delicious and the colors are great. After years of trialing these have been our favorites and they provide for a long season of harvests. They grow well here in Maine, so you may want to give them a try. Enjoy the rest your summer.
My Provider bush beans are going crazy this year. Last year they wouldn't even germinate. Such a difference between one year and the next in terms of productivity!. Our season up here in Georgian Bay, Ontario has been really good, with regular rains and not scorching heat. Just luck I think, from one year to the next.
PS. Quick math for anyone who may be wondering about how many pole bean plants from which he is picking...10 ft long trellis...beans planted 3”apart. This works out to be 40 bean plants per side, as Greg says he believes he planted a double row (either side of the trellis)= approximately 80 plants!! :-)
My top veggies and fruits to plant would be: lettuce, potatoes, carrots, beets, turnip, peppers, onions, tomatoes, beans and strawberries. With these, you can make your own salads, salsa, tomato sauce for spaghetti, all veggies to go with meat and potato meals, stir fries, stews, soups, etc. Love gardening and love your channel!
One thing I have learned over the years is you'll have a few things do really well, whilst a few others will fail. Beans are peas are definitely up there as plants to grow. If all else fails, they will almost always do well, regardless.
And I think crops like that are important for new gardeners, esp. As is good quality seed, which you can save very easily.
good points!
@@maritimegardening4887 Aye man, I think something like a top five dependable crops for new gardeners, could be a video idea.
It's kind of awkward since your sponsor is a seed company. But the importance of good quality seed stock, is also a major factor.
An example would be the 65 pumpkin seeds I got from a trusted provider. Of which all 65 produced strong, healthy seedlings. Whilst the pack of 8 seeds for the same price from a supermarket rack. Only one germinated, and it died a week later.
Somebody new to gardening would blame themselves for seeds like that failing. When they are just dodgy seeds to begin with.
They are so easy to grow. I know because they even grow well for me! 😅 to keep you from giving up on gardening just plant some beans! 😁
We only grow yellow beans because they are easy to find among the green leaves!
If I could only plant five plants, my five plants would be: garlic, potatoes, peppers, onions, and green beans. My next five would be: tomatoes, strawberries, cabbage, bok choy aka: pok choy, and spinach. My next five would be: peas, lettuce, zucchini, winter squash, and radishes. I’d like to hear other points of view.
Impossible to choose :)
my top five would be the same as yours except radishes instead of potatoes for my low carb efforts since roasted they are the closest thing to a tater you're gonna get lol ... and have you ever let those radishes go to seed? the wee pods are delicious and they turn into flower laden radish trees which the pollinators go nuts for - never mind I'll never need to buy radish seeds again!
@@jennywagner2448 Jenny I want to try it. I grew radishes this year and then turfed them all out (! - oh woe!). Trying to stay low carb too but now you have me wishing I had tried stir fried or roasted radishes ! There is always next year..... (sigh)....
Not impossible 2 choose Greg.
Only change is I would grow walking onions which you can begin harvesting in may and continue growing them till October-just pluck the babies on top and stick them in the ground. you always have fresh green onions Cut up the leftovers and stick them in the freezer for any dish that calls for chopped onions
Here in my contrie se have a lot of diferent varieties of beans, for diferent tastes and dischies.
My favorite is One that are in extincion. His name is feijoca. He is white and biguer that all others, and delicioso. The 2º is our normal red butter Bean.
I wonder if the bird was a gray catbird (sounds like a cat yelling at you) or a dark eyed junco? I use the Merlin bird ID app, it's great. In addition to photos it has sounds to help you identify.
While vacationing in Portugal this spring I found seeds for a Romano-type bean called Buenos Aires. Our climate in California is similar to Portugal and they are thriving. The best part is the color: they are streaked with bright red! And they're delicious. I will always experiment with a new bean or two every year after this!
My five are tomatoes, potatoes, yellow squash, green bean and cukes.
long time gardener but this year I tried bush beans for the first time and was happy with the harvest (which I canned tolimit reliance on freezing) but that said I am definitely getting those awesome pole beans for next year!!! thanks for the hot tip!!!
Sounds great!
you made me a believer! Fortex beans next year for sure.
I think you will love them
I put beans on the edge of my bed with cherry tomatoes on a trellis. Working really well so far. I planted tomatoes on the south edge of a pea bed last year. It seems to boost the warmth for early season and gave a boost of nitrogen when I cut the peas off when they started to dry up. Intercropping for the win!
I occasionally play thought games whether it be designing my perfect home or choosing 10 food plants I could take with me if I was marooned on a desert island. If I could only choose 5 food source plants to live on I'd choose beans, parsnips, potatoes, onions, and apple trees. I'd really like to replace the parsnips with cabbage but I've never successfully collected viable seed from a cabbage and, when I play this thought game, part of the game is being able to continue growing food for years without any outside help.
Fortex are by far my favorite bean. They are not as productive in my experience as say Blue Lake pole beans, but the taste is so much better. I dedicate an area to them every year in my garden.
5 veggies to always plant. Beans, cabbage, root veggies (beets, carrots, potatoes), squash, and tomatoes…..
Great choices!
Greg, if another veggie grower asked what my top 5 I wld grow. That's easy... It wld b what is most nutritional, what most people in our part of the world like, has 2 store well and us filling.
Carrots, Beans, Potatoes, Beets and Tomatoes!
My father has been growing veggies for 50 yrs and he never saw Swiss Chard nor tried it till this yr in my garden.
Please let us know what u did 2 cover yr berries while u were away.
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The ones I miss end up as seed.
I have enough dried seeds now from a few years that I could use them for cooking if I need to.
One main bean crop I grow has deep tap roots & they come up every year.
Your garden looks so abundant & healthy!
What is the name of your beans 🤔?
@@vesnaya999 Sorry,I don't know. I picked them from a garden i was working in, many years ago, and I've been growing them ever since. They're mottled purple & pink before cooking
Great info Greg! I've never tried growing beans before because of my squirrel problem, but I'm extended with fine mesh screens project in action. And hope to plant more vegie s next year. For the birds vs berries, people here in Nevada buy Tule, from the fabric store to protect. It's very fine, and doesn't act like the bird cloths where birds can get caught up in and get injured. It's like a too too material or finer! So ballet your berries up!😂
I have a bird/squirrel feeder near my garden and throw out anything I think the squirrels like that I don't compost. So far they havent bothered my vegetables.
We're thinking it may be a Catbird, Greg and if not then a Grackle.
Please do the top-five deep-dive episode! Crucial-five depends on use case. I have a very small space, and my use case is daily forage, i.e. replacing a semi-weekly ten-minute drive to the supermarket with a semi-daily ten-second walk into my patio oasis. My focus is quick-to-maturity continuous-cropping items. Greens, herbs, small-fruited nightshades, beans, zucchini (that's five!), are all good for this use case. Beets, radishes, cabbages, potatoes, bulb onions, pumpkins, are poor for this use case. I am better off letting the latter be grown in some field 10km up the road, and buying my winter stockpile from the farmer's market in one trip in the fall. If I had lots of growing space and my goal was total dietary autarky, I'd still want the greens and herbs, but the majority of the space would be potatoes, pumpkins, parsnips, etc. Omitting perennials and self-seeders (raspberries, oregano, parsley) and limiting to one varietal, my daily-forage-five would be something like: lacinato kale, purple basil, black cherry tomato, shishito pepper, and little green eggplant.
I think I will. It's an impossible scenario, but why not
I haven't been growing beans. I had a half-hearted try at them, they didn't go well so haven't tried again. I'm specifically avoiding brassicas and kale this year as I had terrible cabbage whites last year and I get plenty from the microgreens. I think my favorites may change a bit each season as I've only been gardening for about 5 years and am still finding out what works for me. My 5 would include Swiss Chard (and I have none this year), Cucumbers, Onions, and Beets. I am leaving the fifth spot blank for now - as you said - it would take some pondering. I am anxious for you to come up with your 5 list.
Based on this year - my top 5 might be Basil, Basil, Basil, Basil, and Basil, as I have grown 7 kinds this year.
When we worked on this year's garden, we had very little to use as mulch. We had a round straw bale that we used to make "instant gardens" (laid cardboard on the ground, covered it with straw, everything soaked down, then we cut holes in the cardboard to plant our potatoes) and to mulch around our squash transplants, but the straw was too bulky for some of our beds. I used the wood shavings as mulch in some beds, and it has been awesome.
Another thing that makes a good mulch is wood pellets. Not the fancy kind for BBQs. The cheap stuff. We buy 40 pound bags of hardwood stove pellets for only $6.99 a bag at Canadian Tire to use as cat litter. Farm supply stores sell softwood versions as animal bedding, too. When I ran out of wood shavings, I tried the pellets, and I think I like it even better. Especially when things were still too small for our usual mulch materials. Scatter the pellets around the bed, then gently water it. The pellets absorb the water, swell and break up into sawdust. Once they've expanded as much as they can after several waterings, the sawdust can be gently spread evenly. This spring, after weeding and prepping our beds for planting, I topped some of them like this, then just used a stick to make furrows to plant in. It's great to reduce crusting on the soil surface, which is a big problem with our soil. The pellets also allow you to scatter them into hard to reach areas. You can just toss them, water them, then use whatever garden tool that allows you to reach to spread the sawdust around - if it needs to be spread around at all.
We have pole beans this year, including a dry bean variety. They are nowhere near ready to produce beans. I had some yellow bush bean seeds left over from last year, which we planted together with our kulli corn (a purple corn). They are now HUGE, and starting to produce beans. I might be able to harvest in a few days. The leftover green bush bean seeds we planted around some latte corn (a sweet, bi-color corn) were a total loss, though. The bed got flooded out. I got another variety of green bush bean and planted again. They're growing, but not thriving. A big difference between planting direct into the soil, and in a low raised bed. Both beds were new for this year.
good idea! thanks
Thanks for the video! I'm having pretty good success this year with yellow bush beans in 5 gallon containers. My climbers aren't doing as well. Always learning! Best wishes to you!
How many seeds did you put in each pot?
@@classicrocklover5615 About six to eight... and if any didn't sprout in a week or so, I added a few more. Five gallon buckets. I just harvested about another pound today, from my six containers. Wishing you well!
Have u tried presoaking yr beans wrapped in damp paper towel inside until they sprout and send out roots?
I have 2 do that or the birds pick them right out of the garden. Lol I fnd it wrks great 2 space them and know if they sll were good beans. I find beans r quite reliable 4 germination.
@@lavendercrowl5695 I haven't tried that - but I will now! Thanks for the suggestion!
@@kbjerke if you do pre-sprout in paper towel, sometimes the shoots will grow into the towel. Do not try to remove - if you break the shoot it's done for. Just cut or tear the paper towel around the seed and plant it together. The paper towel will biodegrade.
Beans are so fun to grow. I moved to pole beans a few years ago just for ease on the joints, Although I still plant a few Providers because they do so well in cool soil and I want to keep the seeds viable, too. As far as I know, btw, beans rarely cross, so you can safely save seed without worrying too much.
Last year I planted 12 varieties of snap beans, and planted my favourite four this year. All of them are the wide Romano types except for "Sunshine Wax". I like yellow ones, and have both " Marvel of Venice" and "Golden Gate". "Northeaster" is my favourite green one, and I planted two new ones "Supermarconi" from Fruition Seeds and "Purple Giant" from Restoration Seeds.
The one pole bean that I will always grow, though, is "Lazy Housewife". You get the best of both worlds with it, as you can use them for dry beans, as well. This year, unfortunately, the trellis that one is planted on is too close to the winter squash " Hopi Pale Gray", which is a garden thug and is grabbing trellis away from the beans faster than I can trim it back. I mean, it's a great squash, but you have to keep an eye on it.
I can most of my snap beans.
I also have several beans for dry beans, "Haudenosanee 'Skunk'" and "Khabarovsk". I try and rotate seeds every year so it's not always the same beans every year for the dry beans.
That's more than people want to know about my obsession with beans, I'm sure.😁
Looks like your garden is back under control, Greg! Everything seems pretty neat and tidy!
I have to try those "Lazy Housewife" beans!
Beans are top of my list too. Also, avocados, macadamia, spuds and mushrooms. We will all need to be doing this soon with the price of food being so out of control
My favorite green bush bean so far is Provider, never fails to produce tons of great tasting beans! I will put Fortex on my shopping list! I believe the bird is an immature Catbird!
Those pole beans look awesome...I tried a yellow pole bean for the first time but still waiting for a harvest .
finger crossed :)
Gray catbird
Beautiful looking beans. I was wondering are you using a new mulch around your beans and things it looks like it's golden in color?
What is the mulch by your beans
Your garden looks great what kind of carrots are those?
Calindor Carrot
Neptune Carrot
Volcano Carrot
That bird is a grackle. I have a baby that I rescued in a big cage with my one pet pigeon. It was a fledgling and my neighbors chickens got a hold of it in their pen. Had to nurse it back to health, set its leg with a q-tip and electrical tape splint, etc lol. I can't get my grackle to eat strawberries I grew (don't doubt the wild ones will) but it will peck a gnat/fly out of mid-air with no effort. Got a hundred by seven foot roll of bird netting for under $10 a little while ago so it shouldn't cost you too much to deal with them.
It looked too small looking 4 a Grackle. Thought it was at 1st too until he zoomed in. But Greg, look at one again, if it has yellow eyes, long beak and iridescence feathers then it's definitely a Grackle. Good thing they don't stay 4 the winter here or I'd never b able 2 feed all the large birds! Lol
@@lavendercrowl5695 There are a few different kinds of grackle. Not all are bright-eyed, and I think the ones around here are only iridescent after their first molt. Might also explain the size. Its call is distinctively that of a grackle though. Long tail is another giveaway.
Gang of Greenhorns...
R u a bird watcher?
Oh, 4got 2 say. That bird was not waiting 4 u 2 go. It has a nest near by no doubt. It was trying 2 distract u and lead u away 2 catch it. That's why there were two of them. Look around 4 a nest. But if course it probably likes yr berries too. Lol
I had 2 cover my strawberries. What wrkd great was that cheap ( one of yr fav wrds 😉) white row cover from u know... 1 of those dollar box stores. Anyway, the berries ripened beautifully and it helped 2 keep out chipmunks too 4 some weird reason. It's ugly as all get out us Maritimes like 2 say but enough light shines through. Give it a try on parts. I don't like netting. Seen birds get caught and it gets caught on berries unless u have a huge frame. I've made quick fix teepee structures around my highbush blberries and attach those silver shiny ribbon in long strios on the shrubs. The birds don't like the fluttering if them when winds blowing. But nothing is full proof, is it. So just grow extra 4 the birds. Lol
My mthr swears by.... feed the birds on other side of property near yr flwrs and they won't bother the veggies or berries. It wrks 4 them. They have loads of blueberries, high and low bush! 🙂
Very enjoyable and informative episode. Thanks
Question: growing bush beans in the same bed as the pole beans, aren't you concerned with cross pollination? How would you get seed that is true to the variety for next year?
Well, the bush beans aren't even flowering right now - whereas the pole beans have been producing for over a week now - so if I just mark off a few of them right now to harvest later as seed beans- there's no way they could have been cross-pollinated with the bush beans
I'm looking for suggestions as to what to do with the beans that get left on the plant a bit too long.
pick them, use them in soup
I know what that bird is: it's the bird who's going to eat your blueberries :)
When you are saving seeds, do the provider beans cross with the pole beans?
that is a risk for sure
It's not a grackle. It's a cat bird and they love eating fruit they love eating are blue berries and strawberries
What did you use for your trellis? Are they cattle panels? I want cattle panels for trellises, but they are $84.99 plus tax for a 4’ x 10’ panel now!!
I thought cattle panels were 50 inch X 16 ft and 96 dollars near Brighton ont!
it's concrete wire remesh - costs about $15
Has anyone tried to prune back the tops pole beans to keep them within reach?
I just train them back down
@@maritimegardening4887 I can’t do that because they bunch up at the top.
Q: for anyone- if they are cut back at the top do they send out more lateral shoots down the main stem or just at the top?
How do you freeze your beans so they are not rubbery?
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The bird is a cat bird, I think.
Maybe a cat bird.
4000 yes 4000 seeds planted 0 beans not sure what happen its my best crop in the past lots of sluggs i think but 0 out of 4000 this guy is sad
maybe you planted them too early?
@@maritimegardening4887 it was after frost many of them did come out but bugs were eating them underground before they came up
Black birds and thrushes are crazy about fruit. Some of the unused plots on our allotment site have raspberry canes, or blackcurrants etc growing on them. They are always full of drunk black birds and thrushes fighting with each other. As well as their fat young, who are also drunk on the fermenting fruit.
They are funny to watch waddle about the place, falling over, and demanding more fruit. Just like every drunk demanding a carry-out after the bars shut.
They will even go into the poly and have a go at people's tomatoes. Some groovy bead curtains should put an end to that this year, fingers crossed. Anything is better than me running about a 45ft poly, clapping my hands and acting like I've finally gone a bit odd in the head. All because some drunk black bird refuses to fly out either of the large doors.