View attachment 7239 I have about 4 acres of beans. My beans are about a foot hight, and still have quite a few leaves and have not yellowed yet. They have pods and small birrdshot beans in the pods.. They stayed fairly green and kept up with the browse pressure all summer. I planted brasica, radish and rye / oats into them a few weeks ago.....and that is now taking off too. Nice. Lots of variety of food available into fall.
Next year I am going to fertilize in order to get more growth and bigger bean pods.
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This area got munched pretty good as evidenced by the exclusion cage. I sprayed the weeds....and the beans came "back" pretty well. Then put some brasica down and still have a nice plot when I checked yesterday. I wish I had snapped a pic.....as this plot looked pretty nice again. Amazing.
I'm going to try to get a pic in the next few days to show the comparison of the plot above. Hard to believe the beans could get that eaten down and still bounce back.