Pics of 30 beans, tried it this year

OliverGuy · Jun 23, 2011

Decided to go with just one planter and did it all with a JD 1760. I kept hearing how everyone had been getting along fine around here with 30" beans so I gave it a shot. Mine were always on narrows before. I put starter on this year also. This year has been very wet and this field is sandy so it doesn't care. I hope this field covers before it gets hot and dry and the sun bakes all the moisture out. Maybe I should have planted once straight and once at a 45 degree angle and cut population accordingly? This field is at 175,000 population.

OliverGuy · Jun 23, 2011

2x4 · Jun 23, 2011

looks like you"d get a lot of weeds. They do 15" here to prevent weeds.

thurlow · Jun 23, 2011

Looks good; what kind of starter?

tbuzzard · Jun 23, 2011

Wish my beans looked that nice. Most here in west central MN are just up.

paul · Jun 23, 2011

No beans like that here in MN, mostly just out of the ground. Corn around here looks that high, some shorter and yellow.

Looks nice.

--->Paul

Anonymous-0 · Jun 23, 2011

You must not have woodchucks there. Here the fields have half circles mowed along the edges of the fields from woodchuck.

RandyB(MI) · Jun 23, 2011

We always did them in 30" rows. Good years they were so thick and filling the rows that one wouldn't have wanted them any thicker. Don't remember population. At least it allows for cultivation if needed or wanted. Ours always seemed to respond to a good deep cultivation at one third growth even if not needed for weeds. I am a firm believer that it allows for more bee pollenation of more blossoms than a thick closed canope of drilled beans.

Spook · Jun 23, 2011

I think that is going to do pretty good. They have a heck of a start on the weeds, so I wouldn't worry too much.

Paul from MI · Jun 23, 2011

Most of ours are way shorter than that. Many fields still not planted.

OliverGuy · Jun 24, 2011

I'll have to find my sheet to make sure I say it right. It was a brew of several different things, micronutrients, etc. It was different than normal corn starter I used several years ago.

TerryB IL · Jun 28, 2011

Beautiful!!!

Pics of 30 beans, tried it this year

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