hey everybody sam here and angela and we're green acre homestead
what are we doing today we are pulling up our beans
our bush beans that is why well we've already gotten one
really good harvest out of them and it looks like there is
another to get um but they've kind of been
eaten on quite a lot by mexican bean beetles
right despite our spraying with the sprays we use rather you know we're
not dropping nuke bombs out here but they kind of ended the you know
they're into their life cycle and uh you did some research and we
found out if we pull them today we can do what
we should have enough time to go ahead and plant again right where we're at
and hopefully get another harvest double beans
sounds good all right let's go ahead and get down here and get our tools together
and uh you tell us the game plan let's go
so we've brought our wheelbarrow down here and we're gonna just
by hand i think we're gonna pull up all of the bush beans put them in the
wheelbarrow and then find a nice shady spot to pull
off the good beans and then we'll compost the rest of the
leftovers
nice what these will be easy to pull up won't they
yeah all right here i'll pull
kind of shake it off a little bit shake
it
so
so this is going really really easily this is nice this is the way you do it
wheelbarrow is full so let's go find some shade
so as you can see by some of the leaves we have had a lot of activity
of the mexican bean beetle they absolutely love the bush beans
they also look like when they're in their beetle form
they look like a ladybug but they are kind of the orange tan color
and when they're in i think it's called the larvae stage
they are this gross aren't a yellow caterpillar with little spikes on it
they're disgusting and they are absolutely covering like
all the leaves and beans and everything on these um
it has taken away from the pole beans that the pole beans
aren't getting hit as hard because these bean beetles
really like the bush beans who knew there is a difference
so i am going to pretty much pick up one of the bean plants see if
there is any usable beans so you can see some of the
big ones hanging down i'm going to pull these off and put them
to the side luckily the bean beetles don't eat the beans
themselves but mainly just the leaves there are a couple with little bites
taken out but you can just break those off and not have to use those pieces
so i'm pretty much just picking up one of the plants
itself hold it by the root and you can easily
see what big beans you want to pick off oh and i don't know if you can see
but there is a little yellow patch of eggs right there that is the eggs for
the mexican bean beetle and i try and smush those as
many chances as i find them
and so it'll continue for the whole wheelbarrow load
angel's gonna go up to the house and get our burn barrel that we have it's
actually an old trash can that we found a dumpster it's a metal
can works good drill some holes in it we're
gonna go ahead and burn these plants because they have
bugs all of them and eggs and larvae and just
junk and some of them have a little bit of spots might be a fungusy
so we're gonna go ahead and burn them and get rid of them that way then we'll
use the you know ashes wherever um while she
does that i'm going to go ahead and go in the
garden and do a little bit of prep work with the row
i'm probably going to pull up the drip tape and use the haas double wheel hoe
to cultivate mix up the soil fluff it up make sure it looks good
and then prepare it for planting again
um follow me
uh
so
i think this will be my last pass with the cultivator i've done it twice
i go there and back in that's four times then what i'll do is put on the
furrow attachment and go ahead and dig me a furrow to lay the drip tape
back feel it and whatever i'll get ahead of myself because you guys are going to
see that anyway so sit down
all right i went back and put on the furrow attachment
i'm going to use this to dig or plow the furrow
to lay the drip tape
hmm
so
you gotta walk funny but it does a job great
and now i will lay the drip tape back down in place
make sure the holes point up as well
now i'm going to come back with a rake and go ahead and cover the drip tape
and then we'll plant our seeds
um
welcome back my lovely bride i got beans sorry let me just spill the beans
all right you gotta love it the row is all prepped check it out
ain't that beautiful it is very beautiful nice looking dirt
so to um maybe answer a question if you've watched our
stuff for a while and you saw how we planted this garden originally i'm not
going to heal this i'm not going to plant these
on a hill because we're late july right now it's pretty much the
dry season you know with the exception of getting
to hurricane season later which i hope we don't have but i guess what
i'm gonna get is it's pretty dry down here now
so i don't have as much of a concern about this flooding
i agree so that's why all right here's the next big question
are we doing single or double row planting
i think the double row did okay last time okay and we'll do that again
staggered double row planting yeah and again we're using what seed
the momentum bush bean and we got those from hoss tools
we have loved using hostile seeds this year um
we just you know they have a great germination rate we've not had
any disease problems or anything like that from them so
unless my hat looks kind of weird not so weird now
anyway yep good seeds 55 days to harvest so we've got plenty of time as long as
we don't get a weird early winter we should get another harvest out of
these
we're done we have pulled out all the bush beans
harvested them you got to show them mexican bean beetle
uh all the growth cycles probably yeah eggs larvae and beetle
yep we ended up with about half a bushel for us
but my mom came down and she took probably a quarter bushel yeah at least
so which is a peck
i had to look it up the only version peck i know is from willow and
he liked you it does excuse that way just
okay how about a bushel and a peck and a hug around the neck
um when i cool off you can give me the hug around the neck yeah i don't want to
touch you right now so um how many bushels total does that
make we got out of that row one full bush well two
no if we took a half she took a half and we picked she took a half of a half
so one and three quarter well we picked up
two oh okay i forgot yeah where's that tree again
i had to reposition the camera i was being attacked by this tree
i wanted to take my hat away all right so all in all
how much have we picked out of that one row this year
probably a bushel and a half not bad for a 35 foot row
yeah and considering i mean yeah we could have left the bush beans in there
longer and not pulled the plants out right now
but we wanted to get that second plant against that's what we really did well
and looking at the plants as we were harvesting them there wasn't
much many blooms left to go right like if any so i don't feel bad at
all for pulling them out yeah no hard harm feelings here hard to
feel no harm feelings well guys hopefully you
enjoyed getting to come along and hang out with us today
as we pulled out our bush beans went through the harvest process
and went ahead and replanted another it is the end
well close to the end of july so we do think we're in that 55 day mark to be
able to harvest again before winter sets in
fingers crossed got any questions or comments something that we didn't cover
or just you know how it goes you wonder why we did something a certain way
if you wonder why we did it then leave us a comment down below
otherwise we'll see you guys next time on the homestead bye
you