Beans beans
there good for your heart and the more you eat them
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We're gonna be planting some beans some pole beans and some bush beans. If this is your first time on our channel
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I usually grow me a row or two of pole beans every spring and I usually grow some in fall
But it's been quite a few years since I've grown any bush beans and now we love bush beans
We especially like to can them or put them in jars
That way we can have them whenever we want them regardless of the season. I
Just haven't grown in awhile
You know last time we grew some we grew a lot we put up a lot and we we had them for a while
but it's kind of time to
Restock our pantry with canned bush beans and that's one of my goals this spring is to do that.
So this spring we're going to be doing some succession bean planting in this plot right here in the dream garden
This was our carrot plot for the fall and winter still kind of is our carrot plots
We had carrots and beets in this area right here
That's been cultivated already harvested all the carrots and beets there. We've still got more carrots to harvest here. We've been averaging
pulling about a row a week for us to eat and to put in our weekly vegetable bags and
So as I pull up more carrots
I'll cultivate another piece here put some compost down and plant some more beans and we'll just kind of stagger plant them as
The spring moves into summer with beans the more you pick them, you know
Especially after you've picked them that second or third time, it kind of wears out those plants a little bit
You might see some decline in production after a little while. So that's why we're going to succession plant them
So we'll have repeat harvests for a good bit on into summer
so in this half of the plot right here, where we had
harvested those carrots and beans we came in here and
Kind of tilled and chopped up all those carrot tops that I kind of chop and drop as I'm harvesting the carrots
Then we came in here with some of that good old black gold that I showed you on the last
Video and we put a good bit of it down here tilled it in the soil make this soil a lot nicer than it was
Then we had to put back down our drip tape and I did a different
Spacing than what I had with my carrots. So my carrots from 3-foot. I wanted these beans to be on 4-foot. We're gonna plant
Double rows with the exception of the pole beans, so I need to give them a little more space. So I recycled some drip lines
took my double wheel hoe in here made a furrow and
Then move those drip lines from another plot put them down in the furrow here
And then I all we had to do was turn the water on make sure we didn't have any leaks
and then we took our High Arch Wheel hoe and covered up that drip tape and
Now we're ready to plant. So we're going to be planting one row of
Kentucky blue pole beans and then two double rows of
Momentum bush beans and then one double row of these royal
burgundy purple
Bush beans. Now I'm going to plant the pole beans by hand just because I'm doing a single row of those
Underneath my trellis and then for the bush beans that we're doing in double rows.
We're going to use our garden seeder for that. You might have noticed here that I already got my trellis installed.
So I went ahead and put that up because I wanna plant these bean seeds kind of right underneath that trellis.
Now for years we used them old cattle panel trellises and I still got several of them back there
Leaning up against that barn you see but man those things are a little bit of a job for one person to install
And I just like this hortonova trellis this mesh netting here
it holds really
well
It's easy to install I can put this thing up and you know less than 10 minutes
And it's just a lot easier on me when I'm done with it. I can just roll it up throw it away
I don't have to worry about you know, cleaning all the vines off of it like I do that cattle panel trellis
so I have done away with the cattle panel trellises and this is pretty much all I use and I had a
328 foot roll of this stuff this stuffs five foot tall and you just cut it to length
Whatever you want it's easy to cut with a pair of snips. We just cut it to length and then we take zip ties
And we get it real tight along this t-post there.
Now a lot of people have asked well how many t-post or how far apart do you use with this hortonova
I've done them as far apart as ten feet
This row here is 30 foot long. I ended up putting 4 t-posts here I didn't really measure it
just kind of eyeballed it to get them equally spaced but we got nice and tight and
It's good and tall and that'll make a good little climbing structure for these pole beans.
Now the way I'm going to do this is kind of like we used to do when I was a kid and I remember
Gardening with Mama and Daddy and what daddy would do is he would go along the row there and he would poke a hole
with the end of the rake where he wanted the seed to go because
Adults is a lot better at figuring out how far apart the seeds need to go then kids were so he poke a hole
Along the row
Ever so many inches where he wanted us to put a seed and then those kids would come back
Drop a seed in that hole and then he'd come back behind and cover it up.
So I'm going to use these kind of these rungs on this trellis here as an indicator of where to put my hole.
So these things are six inch squares here. There're six inches apart. So I'm gonna just put a hole underneath
every one of these
With my rake and then we'll just drop a seed in that hole and
Then we'll come back cover it up.
Also when we were kids we used to always be told to put two seeds per hole
Because we just got our seed from the local feed and seed store and sometimes you don't know what you're getting there
So that was a way of making sure we got a good stand.
You can put two seeds per hole nothing wrong with that come back and thin
them I just put one in each hole here if I accidentally drop more than one not a big deal
I just leave it there. We'll come back and thin it later. So our pole beans are in
now, let's go to the barn and
Configure us a seed plate to plant these bush beans on double rows with our garden seeder.
So I've got two varieties of bush beans here. I've got this royal
Burgundy bean this purple bush bean you can see the seeds there and I've got this
momentum bush bean
Right here a pound of those now. This is our number six seed plate our stock seed plate for the garden seeder and
This one will work for some beans it won't work for all beans and we're probably going to see that here in a minute.
So let's
Look at this and see if these seeds fit
The first thing with beans you want to check is you want that seed to be able to lay flat in that hole
Not like that, but lay flat in that hole
Without touching the sides you can see these seeds right here are a little too big especially if we look like this one
here
Or this one here
they're a little too big for that hole because they won't sit in there flat and
Not touch the sides. So we need to make these hole smaller
Some of your smaller bean varieties would work perfect some of these bigger ones
We need to drill out those holes. The other thing here is the spacing
So the way our seeder works in one revolution of this plate inside the hopper
the seeder travels 19 inches
So 19 divided by 4 here would give you a little under a five inch spacing
I like to plant my little thicker than that, so I need a plate
with bigger holes and
with a few more holes.
So I found this plate
in
my stash of plates
I don't remember what I made this plate for but I was looking at and I was thinking this one might work a little better
this has the spacing I want so this is gonna give me a closer closer to a three inch spacing and
I like to plant them thick if I have to thin them I will but I like to plant them thick to get a good
Stand we can check the hole size on these here
You can see that hole is still not big enough for that plate to lay flat
So what we need to do is just make those holes larger
We can do that with this little bit right here called a step drill bit. You can get these things anywhere
They work really good for drilling out these seed plates. So we're just going to kind of
Incrementally make these holes larger until our biggest bean seeds will lay flat in
Those holes and that means everything will flow properly when we put it in the garden seeder.
We made a little mess there but we can take a look now and see if they're big enough
That ones almost there still touching the sides a little bit some I'm gonna make them a hair bit bigger this time
Try to get them all relatively
Equal size here. And sometimes I like to drill out the back of them too just to make it even.
Alright, let's check this now, let's see these seeds will lay flat in there
That one does that one does
That one there does
So that should work right there
Big enough to hold those biggest bean seeds we got and the good thing about these seed plates is you can do it
However, you want it you can make those holes as big as you want. You can make the spacing whatever you want
these things are easy to drill and customize and we intentionally done it that way because everybody likes to do things a little different and
This allows you to do it however, you like.
Alright, so we're gonna put our seed plate in there
our little spacer cone
And our brush
Then our wingnut here
We don't want to tighten that down too much just barely there
got my depth gauge here set at about between
3/4 to an inch deep which is how deep on a plant these guys
We're gonna pour some seed in here.
I don't like to fill this thing up all the way on the first run I make sure everything's working right with it
So I just like to feel it up about there
I can always stop at the end of the row and put more in there if I need to. On our row here
We've got our drip tape buried right here and then that high arch made those little mini furrows right there
So that's where I'm going plant I'm just going to kind of run the wheel down along here plant on both sides
so a double row that way we can get two rows of crop per one row of drip tape or
Two times the vegetables for the same amount of space.
So we did have to refill at one time this is what we got left here
So we need to dump these out and then put our royal burgundy
beans in here
We just grabbed this whole unit here
like our bag
Dump them back in the bag
Then put that back on there
Just like that.
Then we can get these royal burgundy beans in the hopper
So we can plant those as well.
Alright, alright, alright.
And we got them planted just like that now I've grown quite a few different bush bean varieties over the years contender
Providers another good one, but I do seem to remember
This momentum variety was a really really good producer for me when we grew it
I don't know four or five years ago. So really happy about growing that one again this royal burgundy
I've never grown before but purple bush beans
You can't go wrong with that, right. So really excited about trying those and eating some of those fresh may even eat something wrong
So tell me in the comments below what your favorite bush bean or pole bean variety is?
Do you have one you like
Just for fresh eating and then one you like for canning or you found one that really works well for both.
Let me know down below I'd be interested to hear what your favorite is
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