Growing green beans

 

Does anybody know anything about growing green beans?  We've always
raised green beans every year but this year it's been so hot.
They're
blooming but the blossoms aren't setting.  People have said that if
it's too hot the blossoms won't set.  It's finally cooled off.  Will
we finally start getting beans or are the plants locked into a
specific growth cycle where if they're past a certain point they
won't
produce anything.  They're an old fashion pole bean variety and the
vines are very healthy.  There's just no beans on them.  I don't know
the exact variety.  The seeds came from my uncle.  They're the seeds
he saved from the previous year's crop, and those came from the crop
before that.  They are the best
green beans I've ever tasted.  So far we've found a total of 10 beans
from 40 plants.

 

djs0302@aol.com wrote:

If the plant is still healthy they will commence to bear again.

They're an old fashion pole bean variety and the

Look after them for a while longer there is a good chance they will have
more beans unless you have a short growing season and it now gets too cold!


David

 


Thanks.  According to all the maps, we live in zone 6.  Usually the
first frost doesn't occur until around the early part of October.   I
hope they start producing soon.  The vines are covered with blossoms
right now.

 


Thanks.  According to all the maps, we live in zone 6.  Usually the
first frost doesn't occur until around the early part of October.   I
hope they start producing soon.  The vines are covered with blossoms
right now.
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I've read that one way of improving bean set is to hose them at night.  I
don't know why this is supposed to work.  Perhaps it works to cool them
down?????  I guess you could always put a cold compress ont heir forehead
and give them an aspirin to bering their temps down.  (Sorry about that -
but I was serious aobut having read aobut hosing them at night)

 

wrote:


My green beans - bush and pole, were very pretty with lots of blooms
but it was too hot here as well. The bush beans plants shriveled up
and I've planted kale in their stead - first time.

The lima bean plants have done the same thing but the plants are still
vigerous so I'm hoping to get some beans now - we've dropped into the
high 80's, low 90's. I haven't grown lima beans before so no clue what
will happen.

We have been watering early evening so maybe there's hope for the
limas.

Kate
mid TN, USA