I am in North Carolina and am growing Rattlesnake beans, Cherokee Yellow Wax beans, Purple pole beans, Purple bush beans, Asparagus beans, and Blue Lake green beans.
I grow rattlesnake beans. They are prolific and delicious. I grow Doyce Chambers half runner greasy and Kentucky wonder. Kentucky Wonder is also prolific and probably the best old fashioned taste bean to eat.
Thank you. I love lima beans, but I have never grown them. I didn't know they would drop in the heat. It's already hot here, so I'm gonna wait until fall or next year to try them.
I've got some "King of the Garden" beans left from last season also. One section of my peas took a squirrel hit (they left my treated Ultrillo seeds alone, but pulled up and ate a lot of my other untreated seeds right after I planted them a while back). I may stick some KotG in as fillers in the missing spots on that trellis. We are around 2 weeks behind you in temps so I may be less late than you if I get them in tomorrow before the rain.
Good to see things moving towards summer there. Cicadas are vicked loose in Macon Saturday during our visit. Our central Georgia garden is still going in the ground. We are so behind this year. I think we are thinking we are behind since early Easter and sudden break into the 90's so soon. Continue the good work.
i only grow short bush green beans nowadays, and not as a main crop. no hassles having support and no glut of beans to pick and find uses for. last summer grew about ten plants behind my garden shed, which is four feet from fence. got some nice pickings from time to time, for soups and braised in butter and breadcrumbs. nicer fresh green beans than what's in stores.
My beans and peas aren’t germinating too well..I have a weird clay/sand mix and I don’t think they’re loving it too much 😬 definitely going to amend it more next year but I may soak some seeds and plant a few more out and see what happens 🤞🏽 Can’t wait to see your trellis all covered in beans haha 🥂
Well, I just have a little trellis with some netting on it. Can't even get him to think about bringing a 16 ft panel home. I put in some Kentucky Wonder pole beans and they came up good and I also have some bush beans in another bed. We'll see how it goes. The bugs have found my garden this year and I haven't seen you do one dealing with bugs so I would like to request that.
@@marysurbanchickengarden It worked, but it did sag some.. I think if you put conduit or pvc, pipe across the top of your support posts, it would prevent sag. I was thinking on other ways to try. Even a tight rope, or wire might be enough. If live where you have river cane or some bamboo, that would work. I cooked them up similar to black eyes peas in a crock pot with ham hocks. It was pretty good. Smoked Turkey legs/wings turn out really good too.
I missed the window since it's May 3rd when I'm seeing this. I have the Christmas beans and I've not had them before, are they anything like the old timey speckled butter beans? I didn't forget I couldn't get anyone with a truck to hawl the cattle panels to my house from the store. I guess I'll be growing mine in the fall, surely I can get the panels here by then. I know someone from church that would have been happy to bring them to me but I just this.moment thought of her. I could eat butter beans a couple times a week, like them that much.
I'd have to disagree a little with Travis on this one. Both are delicious, but the Christmas Lima once cooked is a light purple looking color, but the inside is green. But i have truly struggled to get them to produce enough to be worth the space. I'm trying one more time this year though because they were so good. Hopefully yours grow wonderfully!
Travis I'm as disappointed with my onions this year as you were. I fed those onions like crazy all through the winter and had beautiful tops but the bulbs didn't get very large before the tops fell over. I'm wondering if I had trimmed those heavy tops if the bulbs would have been bigger? I know you never prune your tops but I wish I had tried it on a few just to see. Planted the same cultivars as you did, plus a few I picked up at the local co-op that are now bolting.
Big question for ya, why do I get lots of vines and blooms but no beans? I pretty much planted the same way you did in this video. But I do live in So Md. our first frost is mid October. I plant by June. Any suggestions would be appreciated 👍
what is your thoughts on cover crops ? covered it all in wheat last year . garden growing great this year . thinking about putting cremson clover out this fall for a cover crop . . but it a little high rent
Thanks for a timely, informative video Travis! I just planted my KOTG beans on one of my cattle panel trellises last weekend, along with Scarlet Runners and Kentucky Pole. I love putting up beans for the winter!!
Tried Kentucky wonder pole beans last year (in kentucky no less..) but we prefer the bush beans type instead of pole beans. i’ve got bush green lima beans from Burpee to try this year.
Don't know what it is but Blue Lake beans last 2-3.yrs just taste awful to me. Canned, even worse. And I so love green beans. This year it's Jade & Harvester.
I don’t recall the variety but I tried pole Lima beans on a trellis last year and I hated them. I prefer baby limas and these were huge. I just don’t like them and wasted time, effort, and space on them. My bush beans, on the other hand, were much better and I had some to put in the freezer.
Anything you can do for pole lima beans you can also do for green beans like kentucky wonder or blue lake stringless. That said, why grow lima beans????
