08-17-2023, 06:11 PM
(08-17-2023, 02:25 AM)wiperhunter2 Wrote:(08-16-2023, 06:35 PM)jjannie Wrote: Guess they do like slightly cooler temps - or maybe the bees/bugs that pollinate them have just been more active - whatever the reasoning - Congrats!!
I think you are right about the bees, could be the hot temps had them in their hive trying to keep the queen cool by fanning her with their wings. Our daughter in law and son are raising bees in Idaho, I'll ask her if her bees stayed home more during that heat wave. Another record picking today, only two days since the last picking, got 455 today but it took me over two hours to pick them.
Yikes that's a lot of beans - do you can or just blanch and freeze them? How many seeds do you plant? in the past our pole beans in GH took over and we're too crazy to even reach most of them, so I switched over to bush beans and start themn at about 3 week intervals instead.