TOO LARGE, TOO SMALL, JUST RIGHT! In this video I answer a question from one of my subscribers on how do we know when the green beans are ready for picking. Both time on the vine and drought affect the quality of the green beans.
Hello Blue_horse and welcome to my channel. I am happy that my video helped you with your green bean crop. I hope you have a great garden with lots of fresh vegetables. Thanks for commenting on this video. OAG
We are waiting on the contracted buyer to sell his house on the lake. It is a beautiful house on a point, so hopefully a fisherman will have a yen to buy. Pray really hard, please. I had another surgery on my foot. grrr. I'm planting most of my garden in containers. It feels so strange. How are you and your wife doing. I pray all is well.
Good info, as usual. Thanks so much for producing these no nonsense, very informative videos. They are just great for the first time gardener and for seasoned homesteaders with a question or two... or three. Love seeing your veggies! Make it a Fun Day ~ Sharon
Hi Sharon, I am a no nonsense type person, I like to keep it simple and to the point. Thanks for watching my channel! I am about 3 weeks away from getting my garden going in a big way for the 2017 growing season. Where do you live? OAG
I live about 30 miles inland of Savannah GA. I watch what you are doing and compare it to our goings on, often. We are zone 8b, hot and very Humid! Take Care~
Hi Sharon, Beautiful town, Savannah! I am in zone 7b so I am a little behind you in getting my garden started. And yes, we are hot and humid in the summer. Happy gardening! OAG
Thank you Dara for your encouraging comment. We learn by different ways! I always like to see what I am trying to learn so I include it in my videos. Thanks for commenting on this video. OAG
Great Question. I have had these issues many times and so have not yet mastered green beans and had decided this year not to grow them. Now I know why even my small beans end up stringy. I have to water my garden (2-5X10 beds) by hand, taking 2-2 gallon watering cans out at a time so watering after the second trip becomes a bit difficult. Now with this information I think I can add them to my garden and have great success. Thank you so much, Brandi.
You are right, even small green beans will be stringy if the plants get too dry. If your soil drains pretty good, I think it would be difficult to over water green beans. I hope you have better success this growing season. Thanks for stopping by. OAG
So glad you did this video! I don't really like green beans, but I grow them for my mother, she loves them. The problem is I don't really know when to pick them, now thanks to your great tips, I do 😊
I like contender,jade and blue lake..I will try the rattlesnakes I have never heard of them..I am in illinois so they may grow different in different climates/regions..
Great that you are into gardening. I am 82 years old and have been gardening most of my life. I am happy to help you if you have questions. And if you would like to have a list of my videos, in alphabetical order, with links you can click on to go to a specific video, I can send it to you and of course it is free. What do you think of my offer? OAG
This really helps this is my first year of growing green beans, and total failure. 1st plant- picked them too old and didn't know it so i cooked it without shelling 2nd plant- bean looks right, but didn't get enough water, so beans were rough I was ready to throw out my seeds, but this gives me hope for next year!
Debbie, have you ever grown Rattle Snake Pole Beans? I think RSPB are the best green beans to grow, We, also are having a late winter blast of cold air, possibly snow flurries. But spring is on its way! Thanks for commenting on this video. OAG
Thank you very much. I had actually mastered this in the last couple years myself, but know a few people who could really use this video as a guide. Very happy I subscribed to you. Could you do a video on growing beetroot, perhaps, in the near future? I have tried numerous times in the past but only got the greens like swiss chard and never produced a root that was worth mentioning (the biggest beet I got last year was the size of a half dollar in circumference and I was very disappointed.)
Thank you for subscribing to my channel. I try to make videos that will help folks grow some of their own vegetables. As to videos on growing beets, I have some: PART 1 ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-z0Q_Rp_aQkQ.html PART 2 ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Rg1I3DBziVo.html ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-SxCnslLknO8.html ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Q6lesHwIu0k.html Beet Juice for Health ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-3BaopbmiVEk.html Beet Juice Detox Results ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-_fHWRIxcq0k.html Thanks for stopping by! OAG
Mostly its going to be for the two reasons I said in the video, weather got too dry on them or the beans got too big! Thanks for commenting on this video. Lets see, you are near Selma, AL right? OAG
Hey Holler Girl! Thank you for your encouraging comment! I always find it interesting to know about where (not the exact address) my RU-vid friends live, just the state is enough. Thanks for stopping by. OAG
This particular bean, Rattle Snake Pole Beans, can get a little larger and still be tender. That is why I like them as well as they have a great taste. Thanks for stopping by. OAG
Thanks for your video. This is going to sound dumb but I never realized we are after the flesh of the green bean and not the actual bean for tasty green beans. This was an aha moment for me! I keep learning :)
Hello Yoshi! My wife is from Okinawa and she also likes the shelled out bean for cooking with rice. She calls it Beans/Rice. So, it can be that you want the shelled out beans. Where are you living at and when we are learning there is never anything that sounds dumb. I welcome all comments and especially questions! Thanks for commenting on this video. OAG
Thank you so much for this video OAG! This is very helpful to me. I'm going to bookmark this video, so I can reference it again when it's bean picking time. We all are so lucky to have someone like you who takes the time to answer questions in this much detail. God bless you and Mrs. OAG, and have a wonderful weekend.
Remember you asked me to make this video. And I finally got around to doing it. I appreciate your kind and encouraging words. I am always happy to know about where my RU-vid friends are located, so about where do you live? Thanks for coming back and watching my video that you asked for! OAG
Thank you for this great information OAG. Now what does the ready to pick beans look like inside the pods? Please let us know. Thank you and take care-Debbie
Debbie, good question. Look close at the beans at time mark 2:59 and 4:00, you will see that the green beans inside the outer shell are not even visible, the inner beans have not yet began to develop. This is what I think would be the best stage for picking green beans, however, if they get small beans developing inside they are still good up to a point. Thanks for stopping by. OAG
You are welcome! I have never grown Asparagus beans so I don't know it this holds true for them. After you give it a try, come back here and let us know what the results were. Thanks for stopping by. OAG
Great video. Thanks grower. I've been planting a pole variety from Johnnys called Fortex. Absolutely the best I've grown for yield, flavor and tenderness. They stay stringless up to 10" long. A wonderful planting. I can't grow bush beans beans at all though. Don't know if it's technique, soil or climate. I'm in zone 10a. Any ideas?
Thanks for the tips on beans from Johnny's. I just might try them. I like Rattle Snake Pole Beans for my area. Bush beans are usually pretty easy to grow. What is it that is happening to your bush beans, do they not sprout, do they grow all bush and no beans, do they fail to set blossoms, do insects destroy them? Zone 10a, would be south FL or south TX? Thanks for stopping by. OAG
Hello, this is off-topic but I noticed you published this video on March 10th, 2017. It is a Summer 2016 video, right? I guess the Japanese beetles didn't get your beans during May and June; mine are decimated and just now July 5 trying to bloom again. I used diatomaceous earth on leafy crops early on, why I didn't use it on my beans, do you know if that would have controlled them? Beetles are tough.
Carlota, it might work to put DE on the bean leaves, I don't usually have a problem with Japanese beetles on beans so I don't apply DE to them. Let me know if you try it how well it worked> OAG
Well I just learned something. Never even thought about it before but yeah when you have those strings I don't like em like that because of those strings. They are tough to boot. I am thinking about planting my rattlesnake beans, or some of them just in case they don't make it I wont lose all my seeds. Thinking they'll have time to make though before it freezes here.
It depends on where you are at as to whether the beans will have time to make before frost. If you are further south than I am, yes their is enough time for the beans to grow a crop for you. I am at the TN state line. OAG
SAH, I used to live at Auburndale, FL and probably like your soil it was sandy. To correct that we started adding compost and lots of it. After period of time we managed to grow some vegetables and as we continued to improve the soil vegetable growing got better. So the answer is add as much organic matter to your soil as you can get. Take a look at my video on my worm box at: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-I9eDQUVAuoU.html ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-LdYbYpmsl2k.html ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ahFarx9NDYQ.html ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-2pBtPonNuOs.html ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-qcQYV2XX764.html ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-XWT9E_o5-cg.html Worm castings (worm poop) is one of the best things you can do for your garden. Thanks for commenting on this video. OAG
Nice video Charles! Will share it on Google+. I was wondering if you or your wife have a recipe for pickled green beans. My aunt used to can pickle green beans (that is what she called them.) She would can them up and you cooked them when you ate them. They weren't like a dilly bean type pickled green bean that you eat like a typical pickle or something. She passed away years ago and I always craved her pickled green beans and do not know how she made them. I would love to find someone who knew!
My first thought was "Dilly Beans". We used to make dilly beans but you still needed to cook them when you opened the jar. Other than dilly beans, I don't know of any other recipe for pickled green beans. You are sure it wan't dilly beans? Thanks for stopping by. C.
Maybe when we opened a jar of dilly beans, it wasn't so much to cook them, as it was to heat them up. I'll look for my recipe on making dilly beans and see what it says. C.
i will consider giving the rattlesnake pole bean a try next year. i am trying to finish up my royalty purple bean seeds and they are bush beans. i recieved your e-mail but when i went to get into it to read it i can only read what i have wrote. and in trying to fix that problem i archived you. i googled for instructions but so far it hasn't worked. i've done something wrong somewhere along the way so once i get it fixed i'll send you another one.lol.
P.C., I don't know much about computers or e-mail, sorry I can't be of more help to with that problem. I'll send you another e-mail, perhaps that will work. OAG
Stacy, I put my e-mail up here but I don't want it to stay public very long so I have removed it. If you still want to get in touch with me, put a comment here with your e-mail address and I will contact you. OAG
