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  • From: Richard Robinson <rrobinson AT nasw.org>
  • To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [Market-farming] Pole beans (was Harvest cart - Crawler or Drangen)
  • Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2011 09:01:25 -0400


On 8/23/2011 at 8:58:55 AM, MAsteveINE wrote:
> Pole beans (Fortex) here get a strip of black plastic mulch with drip tube;
> 8
> foot
> wood posts driven in 10 feet appart, a run of smooth wire at the top and
> another
> a few inches from the ground. Round baler twines run from wire to wire;
> seeding
> 3 seeds at 6 inch spacing thinned to 2 plants is excessive, have a planting
> of
> one plant per foot which looks like it will be easier to work in.

Steve:
1. Are posts 8 foot total, or 8 foot above the ground?
2. I'll be interested to hear how your wider plant spacing works out for
yield. That is
considerably thinner than I plant mine.




Richard Robinson
www.nasw.org/users/rrobinson/
Hopestill Farm
www.hopestill.com





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