It's now September 6, and we had our first frost. My garden's are still full and thriving. I have lots of containers, and raised beds. Today I am going to reveal the three ways that I grow my green beans. It's an experiment so that I can learn which method has the best yields and the easiest to grow. Follow me to see the results.
This is one bucket that I grew some bush beans. I started these beans rather late, as part of my experiment, I planted this last week ish of July. There are a few beans and have been picking them off the plant for a week now. It seems to have weathered the first frost, as it is well established.
This is another bucket that I planted end of July. This variety is a pole bean. I chose not to put a trellis or lay it against a wall, as part of my experiment. I wanted to see how well it did by just letting it sprawl on the ground outside of the bucket. This plant is just about to flower, I remain hopeful it will produce, and it does appear to have made it through the frost.
Here are my pole beans in flower, planted late July.
This is my large planter. I had fun with this. I planted back in June bush beans and let them deplete themselves, they were plentiful, until the slugs attacked them. After that, I decided to plant end of july pole beans in between the bush beans and let them climb. They are now all a bloom and have also survived the frost. Last year my pole beans were plentiful up until the 10th of November when I picked my last green bean, from this planter, and I did not cover or protect it during the deep frost.
This is my final green bean planting. It is in my cinder block raised bed. It was also planted in late July. They are now in flower and I am confident I will be picking these bush beans next week. They also appear to have weathered the frost. Perhaps because it is in a raised bed.
So all in all I believe that so far the blue planter has provided the best harvest, of both pole and bush beans with a continuous opportunity for picking throughout the entire short growing season Planting in early June Bush Beans and again planting Late July Pole beans. I hope this will encourage others to extend and experiment with their growing.
This is an exciting time for me, as I have been trying to grow a pumpkin for a few years now and YAY me, I managed to get one little guy. It's small but I will take it.
Happy Trails