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Old August 7, 2017   #14
ContainerTed
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While I've tried lots of varieties of both bush and pole beans over the years;we kept coming back to one. I grow Blue Lake bush beans every year. We always get a huge harvest. This year, I planted one 105' row and one 50' row. It was one line in each row with seeds three inches apart. Seedlings were up in one week. No thinning was needed. Beans were ready to start picking after 53 days.

I did the first picking when mature beans first showed up. Then my brother's family and I picked 7 days later. With blooms getting scarce 8 days after that, we did the final harvest as we pulled the vines. So, what did we get. I got ~5 bushels, and my brother's family got over 8 bushels.

The mission was to provide canned green beans to our 7 households for the coming year. Mission accomplished!

P.S. The okra is also plentiful enough that we'll enjoy fried okra all winter long.
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