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  • From: Bill Shoemaker <wshoemak AT illinois.edu>
  • To: "Market Farming" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Bush Beans was Greenbeans in the Rain
  • Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2009 07:31:28 -0500 (CDT)

They sure make your market popular though. Its a hot product around here.

Bill



>We usually pick beans twice - once a week for two weeks. The first
>picking is usually small - just a few beans per plant - and really takes
>too long, but the beans are soooo nice. The second is at the peak and
>after that quality declines, it takes too long to pick, so we turn them
>under.
>
>If we were really on top of things, to have beans every week, we'd seed
>every two weeks. In reality, that rarely happens. But, I hate picking
>beans, other crops take less labor and are more profitable, so we don't
>sweat it. When we have beans, we sell the heck out of them, and when we
>don't, well, we just don't!
>
>Alison Wiediger, Au Naturel Farm
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: market-farming-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org
>[mailto:market-farming-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Allan
>Balliett
>Sent: Wednesday, August 12, 2009 5:30 AM
>To: Market Farming
>Subject: [Market-farming] Bush Beans was Greenbeans in the Rain
>
>
>I know Ellen at Potomac Vegetable Farms here outside of DC has said that
>she has found it most effecient to harvest bush beans one time (maybe
>one week?) and to plant closer successions. I used to nurse a planting
>for a month and found it worthwhile. It seems to me, though, that recent
>plantings have been awesome for one week (the 2nd week of having beans)
>and then hardly worth picking through. I'm thinking right now of our
>current planting of Provider. Two successive pickings of beans by the
>handful proceeded and followed by a couple of beans a plant. Wondering
>how it works for others on this list.
>Thanks -Allan in WV
>
>
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William H Shoemaker, UI-NRES
Sr Research Specialist, Food Crops
St Charles Horticulture Research Center
535 Randall Road St Charles, IL 60174
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