My uncle is a commercial bean farmer. He shared with me everything he does to get massive and consistent green beans and snap beans. These tips I am sharing with you to help you grow big and yield big!
VIDEO: A Farmer's Guide to Mastering Growing Green Beans
My uncle is a commercial bean farmer. He shared with me everything he does to get massive and consistent green beans and snap beans. These tips I am sharing with you to help you grow big and yield big!
What variety of green beans are these?
Thanks Luke!
I remember years ago, it was advised and a recommended common practice to add an inoculant on your beans for N, prior to planting. It produced, I can't knock the practice. But being a turf guy, I like your grandpa's thinking better v because I have all kinds of N on hand. A little urea, after the initial growth surge, when all seed energy is spent makes sense. Urea is a fast release N and short lived, due to leaching and volatilization so the bean will uptake what it requires in a short fashion with minimal residual.
Wow I grew bush beans this year and I just was wondering how long to let them grow once they got a good size. I am so grateful for this advice!
Good info Luke! Thank you.
Thank you Luke, excellent video. I learned a lot. I have my fall beans planted and their just coming up. I'm going to be fertilizing them tomorrow. I sure didn't know to do that before watching your video
I always grow green beans because my grandmother grew them. I’ve tried several varieties, but I always go back to Kentucky Wonder Beans because that’s what she grew and they are my favorite!
Thank you for sharing. I always learn a lot from your videos. Are you going to put this in a blog on your website
Luke, do these principles apply to pole beans, also?
Luke, I just received my Contender green beans today that I ordered from you! ( not planting until next year though.)
Great video!!
Ok. One last Hail Mary with the Blue Lake beans I just got from you. I have been trying since late March here in San Diego. At first it was still to cool to get them germinating and then 3x’s I’d get some good growth going and then the caterpillars and heat waves keep killing them. I got a handful of beans from some starters I bought to see if that would work better. Wish me luck.
Thank you Luke. Just so I understand you’re saying when the beans produce the first flush, we are to harvest ALL of them? How long do we leave them on the bush before harvesting?
Luke, thank you for this information. I did start my beans late August and it is producing so much beans that my family can't keep up. We have beans almost every night for dinner! Thank you! Your uncle is a wise farmer!
How many plants do you need for one person?
Cool info Thanks!
Well, I keep my pole beans going (even during life support mode) but hold on… I'm getting plenty of beans now as my plants are putting on new growth and more beans. I just keep them going during the less productive hot days. But I'm getting a good amount without replanting!. Picking a gallon every few days from 10 plants.
Can you please do this for Henderson limas? Oddly enough there are very few videos on them and none that I can find that explains when to harvest.
cool i had a mediocre been harvest this year…hope my late season crop makes up for it.
Luke, I so appreciate your enthusiasm for green beans. I planted some for the first time in August just to see what they do – Ive never grown green beans before but I bought 10 lbs at the farmers market in springtime and I paid way too much for non-organic beans (would rather pay local farmer more rather than pay less at the grocery store chain though).
Anyhoo, I can’t believe how prolific the bush beans are! They have just started with tiny beans appearing but it’s definitely piqued my interest in growing them again and actively participating in getting an amazing crop.
I was super stoked at the start of the video to hear how stoked you are by them and that there indeed are steps to take to improve yields – thank you (and your uncle) for the hot tips.
Did anyone get the feeding sequence (and NPK ratio, aside from early nitrogen feed)?
Little did I know–I left one or two random pods on several plants to go to seed. Had no idea that's what halted future blossom production!
Okay, that explains why I am getting so many pole beans. I planted them on April 10th, and have been picking beans daily since they started producing. They are starting to slow down now, and are thinning down. I generally do three crop rotations with bush beans, getting three harvests with each rotation, in central Alabama. I grow a mix of Blue Lake pole beans, Cantare, Dragon Tongue, Tongues of Fire, Golden Butterwax, and Blue Lake bush beans. Needless to say, I have a lot of beans, enough to last through the winter. I am in the process of transitioning to fall/winter crops. Using low tunnels over my raised beds, I should be able to keep some of the hardier plants producing throughout the winter.
Luke, thanks for this timely video! I'm having some issue with a small bed of bush beans. Seeds were direct sown on August 25, today all leaves look yellow! What am I doing wrong? This is a new 3x3ft bed we created to try out growing beans, we made our soil of mushroom compost mixed with peat, potting soil and perlite, also mixed in some Biotone Starter Plus, it's got adequate water, no over or under watering. We're in zone 7a, temperature has cooled down to 80's and under 70F at night. If anyone knows what I should do please do tell. Thank you!
You just answered all my questions about my problems with getting beans to grow.
Great tips, thank you. One you didn’t mention but I saw in your video. Rabbit protection. I will be doing that in the spring as well as deer netting. Dang deer ate all my fall beans.
I found that if you start them in chunky soil they will not mold and rot.
This make a positive difference in how productive my green beans will be next year. Freet then for the first time this year and was so pleased with the flavour.