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  • From: "Rob Johnston Jr." <rob AT johnnyseeds.com>
  • To: Market Farming <market-farming AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>, Allan Balliett <igg AT igg.com>
  • Subject: Re: Hello responses/yard long
  • Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2002 09:16:46 -0500


Allan Balliett wrote:

> Rob, how many WEEKS of harvest should one expect to get from yard
> longs?

Well, I dunno...depends on how hot the weather. There -- I got out of
that one, didn't I?

> From other pole varities?

For "common" pole beans (Phaseolus vulgaris) a month or so. Depends <g>
on the variety and the weather, and the health of the crop, particularly
the freedom from disease.

> Are there ways of extending the harvest? (I don't mean through the
> weather, I mean to keep the vitality of the vines producing.)

Extended harvest promoters: 1) fertile soil; 2) regularly picking the
beans when young.

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Robert L. Johnston, Jr.
Chairman
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Post: RD 1 Box 2580, Albion, Maine 04910 USA
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