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Bean Growing Problems: Troubleshooting

http://www.harvesttotable.com/2009/05/bean_growing_problems_troubles/

Unlike pole beans which produce all season if kept picked, bush bean varieties don't normally produce a decent follow-up crop once the first round is finished. What you get is usually small. few in number and less than ideal. Bush plants have a limited life span in other words.

That's why most either stagger plantings of them or replace them with a follow-up seeding of new plants once the majority of the first crop has been harvested.

Dave

I replant green beans every 2 weeks. I pick off of a bunch for about 2-3 weeks and then out they go to make room for another crop.

My French Filet bush beans produce a consistently decent harvest until frost. Of course, nothing beats that first flush of beans... or the production of the Fortex pole beans.