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| My beans are growing faster than I can keep up with! They've reached the top of the chicken wire fencing I layed out...what now?! Haha should I encourage it to grow downward and then eventually back up?? Also, with as tall and thick as these plants are right now, shouldn't I be seeing flowers or beans by now? I'm new to gardening, and I'm not exactly sure how long it has been that they've been in the ground but I would have guessed I should have been eating some beans by now! When will they produce? |
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| If those are pole beans you're going to need way more chicken wire. Mine grow over 8'. Trying to train them down and up won't work. As for flowers, they are still young yet. When they start getting bigger, they will start flowering. |
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- Posted by CourtneyB123 none (My Page) on Thu, Jun 19, 14 at 19:47
| They are indeed pole beans! I didn't know what I was in for I guess! Haha Also, I'm not sure if you can tell by the picture but I may have planted too many seeds in one area, as they are in one big thick tangled mess! Should I slim them out or will they do this themselves naturally? (Survival of the fittest!) |
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| Others may disagree, but I wouldn't bother thinning. I always plant in way higher concentrations than the packet instructions say and my beans always do fine. Do expand your chicken wire though. Higher and wider. When they get to the top, you can start training them to spread horizontally, but you don't want to do that at the 3' level where it looks like you are right now. There's way too much growing left for that. And enjoy! Pole beans are my favorite in the garden. They're pretty when they start flowering, hearty and yummy! |
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- Posted by AgroCoders 6 (My Page) on Thu, Jun 19, 14 at 19:57
| Chickenwire is expensive. A loose string net hung from the fence would have been better. You can try bush bean varieties but they don't bare as much as pole beans. We usually plant in with the corn. |
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- Posted by CourtneyB123 none (My Page) on Thu, Jun 19, 14 at 22:14
| I will definitely do something whether it be chicken wire or something for them to cling onto! Wow who would've guessed they grew that high! Are there many pests or bugs that eat/damage beans in south florida? As I may have mentioned, didn't have a very successful season for cucumbers or summer squash. :( |
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