Market Farming

[Etienne Goyer <etienne AT lejardinduvillage.ca>]

In my experience here, fruit set in cold condition on beans (Jade, Gold
Rush) produce a lot of malformed beans.  This makes picking quite
unproductive and really not worth my time any more.  However, the taste
do improve a lot in cold conditions (particularly so for Jade, which was
rather strong tasting in the summer).  You may want to try for yourself
nonetheless, as your condition are surely different from mine.

Sorry, I have no idea about the pollination part.


On 12-10-11 09:33 AM, Richard Moyer wrote:
> I read that bush beans are 'largely' self pollinated.  But do they need
> a pollinating insect to help?
> 
> 10 day forecast has several clear nights in low 40s.  We covered much
> last night because low of 32-34 was predicted with a freeze warning.
>  But a fog moved in late so just some frost.
> 
> My late bush bean planting of 'Crockett' has many hundreds of blooms,
> and I'd like to keep selling beans as long as possible.
> 
> If I keep a light layer of row cover on during days in the 60s, perhaps
> more will ripen before a hard freeze.  But what about pollination?  Do
> beans need a pollinating insect to help transfer pollen in each flower?
> 
> What's a good resource to figure this out?
> 
> Thanks,
> Richard Moyer
> SW VA
> 
> 
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