Is it true the more often you pick green beans the more will grow?
2007-06-21 09:30:47 · 3 answers · asked by atl_bengal 1 in Home & Garden ➔ Garden & Landscape
Yep. If you let the fruit, in this case the bean, remain on the plant and allow the seeds to begin ripening, the plant slows production of future fruit. Afterall, the plant is just wanting to make babies.....the seeds....and once it has a decent crop, it dies.
Just be careful how you harvet the beans, you don't want ot be yanking them off and perhaps breaking the mother plant.
Beans do have their limit though, they may send out a few crops and then quit on their own.
2007-06-21 09:38:37 · answer #1 · answered by fluffernut 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes, if you leave the beans on he plan they will tell the plant not to set more flowers and he bean pods will mature and eventually dry thus becoming viable seed. If you keep picking the beans he plant will continue to make more flowers in an attempt to make seed and reproduce itself
2007-06-21 17:18:06 · answer #2 · answered by Ohiorganic 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes, if you keep them well picked the plant will try to produce more.
2007-06-21 16:36:56 · answer #3 · answered by Sabine M 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋