Picking snap beans
Peas and Snap Beans - since peas and beans are so much alike, lets just group them together.In fact, there are debates saying that peas and beans are the like thing.I personally divide peas and beans into 2 groups - one you eat whole (snap beans) and one you beat to get the bean/pea out of the interior and eat it instead of feeding the husk.
Peas and beans return nitrogen into the soil, so that makes them just for crop rotation.Before you set a high nitrogen requirement crop, such as corn, plant some beans or peas at the same time, or the season before the you establish the corn.
One of the problems with peas and beans - wildlife love it.Deer and rabbits will eat the bean / pea plants down to aught but a stub sticking out of the ground.To protect the dome and pea plants, plant some squash or zucchini with them.The pea / bean plants will allow the squash plants with nitrogen, and the squash plants will help protect the pea plants from deer.The squash and zucchini plants have small "hairs" on the stalks that the deer do not like.
Peas and beans are a good long term storage food crop.The old timers used to run a goad and wander through the pod, and bent it up to dry.Thus the key "string beans".When it comes time to eat the beans, pull them off the train and boil until ready to eat.
Care must be interpreted when picking the beans and peas.If you attract too hard, part of the set may go off.Sometimes I wish to use scissors to cut the pea / bean pod off, so that the balance of the plant is not damaged.
Snap Beans are a high producing plant, the more you filling it, the more it produces.While you might get but a pair of taking from purple hull or silver skin crowder peas.
My pea and bean stockpile contains maybe 4 or 5 different types of seeds - mainly purple hull pink eyes and nearly 3 different types of snap beans.
There are 2 different types of bean plants - runners and bush.
Bush beans - and we are not talk around the canned "Bush baked beans" either.These are bean plants that make a bush and do not constitute a vine.
Runners also called climbing beans - do exactly as their name implies, the vine climbs stuff.A lot of times people will establish their beans and corn together.The beans will provide the corn with nitrogen and the corn will have the bean vines something to mount on.Other people may establish their bean vines close to a wall so that the vines have something to mount on.
Personally, I like bush beans.Even though you get to dig through the scrub to see the beans, it seems like you can plant more bush beans then you can runners in the same quantity of space.
Fertilizer - when adding commercial fertilizer to peas and beans, try not to add add a lot of nitrogen.Use a good balanced fertilizer like 10-10-10 or 13-13-13.In most cases beans and peas do not want a lot of nitrogen, adding high nitrogen content fertilizer like 21-0 or 16-6-12 is a no, no.The exception might be if the land is nitrogen deficient; but the just way to recognize that is if you make a ground test done. Recent Articles:
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