Well it's green beans and romaine lettuce for dinner tonight, but I was wandering after I pick the beans will the plant continue making more or do I need to pull it up and plant more down? I have planted 5 beans every 2 weeks also just in case.
When you pick green beans it is a signal it needs to produce more until warm weather tells them to stop they will produce.I hope I haven't told you wrong but thats the way mine always has done.Beans and peas act like that but peas are a good summer veggie.
Oh so green beans will stop making in the hotter summer? Wow did not know that I might have to re plane my garden.
Here in the not so sunny UK our runner beans are considered to prefer cooler temperatures. I don't know if this is the same for french beans. You don't mention if your bean plants are dwarf or climbers? Dwarf beans in my experience, make a first flush of flowers, then you get a few more, and that tends to be it. Pole beans that climb make flowers along the stems for a much longer period so you can harvest beans, hopefully, for the whole of the summer and into the autumn. If there are no apparent flower buds on your bean plants, I would be tempted to pull them out and plant something else. And if possible, grow your next batch of beans in the shade of another plant.
aaaahh! That sounds good. Mine are bush beans but next year I am going to do pole beans for they take up less space. I harvested 4 plants tonight and got enough for just me and the wife.Is that good or not so much? Also what about cauliflower, is it a cooler weather veggie also? I just bought some that are about 4 inches tall to replace my broccoli.
Here in zone 5 I get 2 cycles out of my bush beans. I will have a big harvest time followed by a rest period and then another harvest. Usually by the time that is over I have frost so I don't know if I would get another harvest or not.
