HOW TO GROW POLE BEANS!!!

This week I'll be teaching you how to plant and grow pole beans!!!
Pole beans are productive and easy to grow. When you know how to grow beans from seed you will be rewarded with great harvests.
Learn how to grow beans and be amazed at how easy it is to plant and grow beans.
Join me for these hopeful, helpful and healthy tips.

[@userbosco]

I've found that playing Nickleback with a light show and throwing a few dollars around the pole always gets them dancing. xD

[@SustainableStace]

Funniest comment ever - thanks !

[@joemc111]

Zone 9 here in Dunedin,Florida just planted Kentucky wonder on April 27,2022. Great show no music,no extra talking just the facts. Subscribed looking forward to looking at a few of your videos.

[@SustainableStace]

Thanks for the update and positive feedback! I hope you have a crazy crop of those Kentucky Wonder beans.

[@Mary-had-a-lil-farm]

Great video. Not a lot of unnecessary chatter which can be very irritating. Great delivery of info. Subscribed! Can’t wait to see what else you have. Thanks.

[@SustainableStace]

Thanks Mary - there's plenty more content being created :)

[@kathycook1815]

Thanks for the info - such a nice, neat, productive garden.

[@SustainableStace]

You're welcome Kathy. I'm glad you found it helpful. I've also got a site with a very successful little 'garden system' to pull everything together and guide people through the whole process of setting up their own garden and a full year of production. You can check it out here: thebackyardabundance.com

[@kathrynmccann6093]

Love it! Very inspiring! I'm going to try this in my garden set up this way.

[@lewiska2966]

I hope you will post an update on your progress in this topic like: what they look like as they grow, other ways to water them (I am a city, apt. dweller) picking, etc. Great video. I am inspired.

[@BasicPoke]

Nice job, thank you.

[@yanirisencarnacion04]

Great video, thank you.

[@SustainableStace]

You're welcome !

[@markowen5868]

thanks for posting going to have a go at growing kentucky pole beans for the for time

[@SustainableStace]

You're welcome - good luck growing!

[@LittleCountryCabin]

Great video! Thanks for sharing🤗

[@SustainableStace]

You are so welcome!

[@acrad7187]

Really helpful info- thank you!

[@SustainableStace]

You're welcome, i'm glad it was helpful!

[@Neyobe]

Very good video!,!! Thank you

[@SustainableStace]

Glad you liked it!

[@kevinmanning4880]

Fantastic video! Also I found out a few days ago that green beans rebuild stem cells!

[@SustainableStace]

Thanks Kevin. Always wonderful to hear of more benefits eating healthy food!

[@littlejoe9381]

Thank you.

[@SustainableStace]

Little Joe - You're welcome!

[@og-greenmachine8623]

Whooo hooo! Bought three pole bean plants for seven dollars at the grocery store today😎

[@GeorgiasGarden]

Just found your channel. Can’t wait to start binge watching. I’m in north Texas. It is difficult with high temperatures day and night to grow. I’m working the problems. Thanks. Where did you get the coffee bags?? Burlap online is crazy expensive.

[@SustainableStace]

Welcome to the channel Georgia. Yes, high temp makes growing hard. We're just saying bye to the last of our recent snow and seeing fewer nights with frost. Itching to start seeds in the greenhouse this week! I get coffee sacks from a nearby coffee roaster. Cardboard is the least expensive, best friend to cover soil but it blows away when it's dry and windy so you need something else to hold it down. Even pieces of wood will work.

[@sparhawk3473]

I plant my pole beans on cattle panels. I stand up my cattle panels about seven and a half feet through the middle and make this gazebo. A zip tie them all together. Then I plant down each side. When they start putting out runners I trained them to go over-the-top over each other. I use my gazebo for a greenhouse in the winter time to. I put my cubs on the back end. Make sure to face the opening to the south. Happy gardening folks...

[@SustainableStace]

This is a great approach - cattle panels are a wonderful way to create structures.

[@jeffrische5407]

Great video, Stace. I'm wondering about the orientation of your row: E/W or N/S? I have 4x8 raised beds and could use a little guidance.

[@SustainableStace]

Hi Jeff, I'm glad you liked the video. With pole beans, being so tall and casting so much shade, you're asking a great question! The pole beans in the video are oriented N/S. My end of day light is much stronger than my early day light and so I place my shorter plants that prefer more heat/light on the west side of the pole beans while I place the plants preferring cooler climate on the east side of the pole beans. To add another layer - often I find that when you're growing on a slope and using drip irrigation - the issue of water pressure/flow can affect decisions on orientation and need to be incorporated into the discussion as well! I hope that helps :)

[@bmcdonald7303]

@@SustainableStace this was great information. Thanks!

[@drrahilakurdi5943]

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[@ReallyGottaTap]

Thanks for this video. How are those poles anchored into the ground? I'm sure your bean plants will be quite heavy when grown.

[@SustainableStace]

I pound them into the ground with a sledge hammer. You're correct, the beans get heavy and you need to 'sink' the poles so they stay upright.

[@ReallyGottaTap]

@@SustainableStace Thanks so much for the reply! I appreciate it.

[@AnPAirMech]

On Amazon I see many different varieties of the Kentucky Wonder pole beans. What variety do plant? Where do you order your seeds. They are over $5.00 for 30 seeds on Amazon. I have tilled up ground for my first and I don’t know much. I like your video, please keep them coming.

[@SustainableStace]

Hi Steve, Good question. Yes, they can be expensive to purchase. The key is to get going with heirloom seeds (aka old school, heritage varieties) so that once you've purchased them once you can save them thereafter. I just uploaded another video this week specifically focused on seed saving which also covers bean seeds: kzbin.info/www/bejne/Z3XcdmOqbNB6o9U Thanks for the encouragement!

[@vickycollins6656]

My pole beans burnt up this year. 2023. KS just gets too hot or I did something wrong. First time. I may plant bush beans next year. Do bush beans give more protection from the extreme heat? I even tried shade cloth. Thanks

[@SustainableStace]

Oh Vicky I'm sorry to hear this - when you go to all the effort to plant and protect and your efforts are thwarted - it can be disheartening. I can't speak to comparing bush to pole regarding how they fare in extreme heat but . . . your guess sounds likely to me. The timing of the heat and the size/maturity of the plants during the heat interests me. Do you have any comments on that ?

[@amkerschen]

With the irrigation lines, water usage, stakes, coffee sacks, etc., how much do would you estimate it costs per kilo of harvested beans?

[@SustainableStace]

Hi Amanda - great question. Not an easy answer for me. Here's how I'd approach it: 1. All of my irrigation lines have been in place for 5+ years, with little to no repairs. They'll keep on going for a long time! The stakes keep getting used year after year. The soil, compost, manure etc are all free inputs each year from the farm. So, many of those expenses would need to be amortized over 10 or more years to be fairly attributed. 2. On the other hand, the sacks, labor and seeds are annual recurring costs. Do I have a # in answer to your question? NOPE The main reason - small scale. Planting a row of pole beans is hard to break down. With garlic I do a few thousand head at a time. With that crop the scale starts to lend itself to much easier calculation. Until I would choose to plant a minimum of a few thousand square feet in a certain crop I (personally) wouldn't treat it like a business. Also, when I've raised animals for eggs, milk, meat etc I've always calculated the costs much more closely b/c I've got a target market price in mind that I want to hit.

[@amkerschen]

Sustainable Stace Thank you so much for your response. I understand your points. Much to think about! Keep the great videos coming!

[@amkerschen]

Sustainable Stace Thank you so much for your response. I understand your points. Much to think about! Keep the great videos coming!

[@sarahthao7126]

Just finding ur videos ❤ but where do u get coffee bags? I’m in ARkansas

[@SustainableStace]

Hi Sarah - welcome to the channel! Great question and greetings to you in Arkansas. The best place to get coffee sacks is from a coffee roaster :) We own a roastery and so I have unlimited access. However, cardboard is MAGIC. It's amazing how effective cardboard is at suppressing weeds, offering a UV barrier and conserving moisture. The one challenge is that when it dries out, cardboard blows away on a windy day. Coffee sacks keep the cardboard down!

[@kingdubly8762]

I am going to try growing Ky. Wonder pole beans in cages. Each cage is a little over a foot in diameter. How many beans per cage would you suggest?

[@SustainableStace]

I'd suggest planting 3-5 seeds within the cage. I like planting quite densely and I don't presume 100% will germinate and become mature. About those cages, how tall are they?

[@kingdubly8762]

Cages are 4 foot tall

[@jessemojica3933]

If I’m in zone 7a can I still plant the beans and have a late harvest

[@SustainableStace]

Great question - it's all a matter of how many warm days left in your zone before cooler weather shuts down the bean plants production. Sites will suggest you only need 60 days from seed to harvest. But I think that's likely that's until first harvest not full production. It's safer to say 70-75 days. Do you have that much time left i.e. plant NOW and finish harvest by early September? If so, go for it. If not, plant bush beans as they'll produce sooner!

[@cindyhayslette306]

Where do get those sacks looks like you made a pathway and keeps weeds away

[@SustainableStace]

They are sacks used for importing coffee. Made of strong, organic plant fibres. Any coffee roaster has lots of them !

[@TheSunIsMyDestroyer]

when you took the seeds for last season, how did you prepare it and store it?

[@SustainableStace]

I leave them in the pods until I get around to shucking them out of the pods. No hurry. I'd advise you store them in a dry, dark place in a paper bag. You don't want to seal them in a plastic bag that cannot breathe!

[@TheSunIsMyDestroyer]

@@SustainableStace thanks!

[@valeriesanchez3074]

I planted some pinto beans and over time they started swirling around a power chord

[@davidkehr4730]

My KY pole beans have a brown bean...? I wonder what the difference is.

[@SustainableStace]

Fascinating. I just googled this and was surprised to see images of BOTH the white seeds (like I have) and brown seeds (likely what you referenced). Thanks for noting that!

[@charronfamilyconnect]

Do pole beans yield alot more beans per space as opposed to bush beans, and do you know the potential yield in pounds per acre? I ask this because I may be buying some farmland, and want to grow multiple acres of these beans to sell on the farmers market because no one else in my city is doing this, and I like the potential of it. What do you think? Thanks!

[@SustainableStace]

Hello - wow, 'may be buying some farmland' sounds exciting! In my experience, YES pole beans produce more in the same area than bush beans b/c there is so much more plant producing. You would want to pulse your planting to stretch out the harvest time so that you'd have as much available as possible over the longest period of time. I.e. plant every week for 6 -8 weeks if your growing season allows for it. I have no idea re: yield per acre but I can only imagine the labor time / cost to pick an acre of pole beans would be staggering. I'd suggest locking in buyer commitments based on agreed quality - price standards in advance of planting. wishing you well :)

[@charronfamilyconnect]

@@SustainableStace Thanks, but it looks like my search for farmland has to continue as i missed a recent property that was well priced and sold in a few days. I am so sad cause i love the whole area being closed to a beautiful park that i frequent.

[@adtsetful]

Do you think I could use narrow bamboo sticks instead of wood like you used?

[@SustainableStace]

That's a good question. Any pole that's tall enough, well anchored and has the strength to support the beans will work!

[@bodybesilk]

Great video

[@SustainableStace]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@taylormosley1343]

This might be a silly question, but do i absolutely need a pole for the beans to grow on? or can i leave them to grow on the ground?

[@SustainableStace]

Every question helps! Pole beans want to grow tall / long. But the stalk cannot support the plant vertically. It would be fascinating to see what would happen if you planted but didn't provide a pole for support. My hunch is they would still grow well BUT, there would be extensive challenges: a) the plants would grow 6-10 feet in any direction on the ground and be hard to contain/direct b) the beans would be resting on the soil - likely to rot/spoil c) to harvest you'd likely end up stepping on the stalk b/c it would be a rat's nest and that would damage the plant d) airflow wouldn't happen so it'd much more susceptible to disease But, you never know till you try!

[@justrelax3323]

Thanks for the info! I can't wait to try growing pole beans for the first time. Are they anti tomato or pro tomato?

[@SustainableStace]

PRO - Pole beans should do great with tomatoes.

[@justrelax3323]

@@SustainableStace Thank you.

[@skinnyWHITEgoyim]

Beans and peas both are niyrogen fixers. They feed nitrogen to surrounding plants. I plant my peas close to my tomatoes and let rhem vine up them. When you harvest the beans and peas just cur the plants off at the ground level. Leave the roots because they have nitrogen accumulating nodules on them that put nitrogen in the soil

[@chachaman4980]

How do you ensure germination?… I am having difficulty getting them to sprout once planted?

[@SustainableStace]

It's an excellent question. I agree that getting beans (and peas) to start from seed in the garden can often be quite difficult. I have found that really wet conditions and planting a bit too early can often result in germination problems. Is it germination that's the problem or are the seeds germinating and then the baby plants are getting munched as soon as they sprout from the seed? Both slugs and wood bugs tend to enjoy eating my tiny starts and that's why I ask. I generally have more success if I start beans indoors and then TRANSPLANT beside the poles. good luck !

[@melaniebaker1930]

Can I use a thinner pole? A round 1? Or do they need to b square and that size? I really hope u answer cuz I can't find any answers. Lol

[@SustainableStace]

Hello Melanie - A great question! The pole can be any dimension - square, round, you name it :) It needs to be 1. tall enough 2. strong enough That's it.

[@melaniebaker1930]

@@SustainableStace ok, thank u so much!!! I got really tall cane poles, was going to teepee 3 or 4 together, but I didn't know if they had to b square or that size. Thank u so so much for answering!!! I also have old rebar laying around was thinking about using. 🤣🤣🤣

[@vencent8329]

do you have any secret to keep away pinchers bug

[@SustainableStace]

I think what you call 'pincher bugs' may be what I call earwigs. If so, I'd suggest you try sprinkling some Diatomaceous Earth Powder around the plants that you are trying to protect.

[@KladosVentures]

Where are you located? Zone? Frost?

[@SustainableStace]

HI Will - we're located on southern Vancouver Island in BC (west coast of Canada). Generally our area is 8a - our coldest windows in winter are sustained around -5 to -10 C at the coldest

[@michaelsilverman8828]

Do grow any other bean,s

[@SustainableStace]

Yes I do! Additional to fresh bush and pole beans I grow a variety of dry beans (bush and pole) for storage and dehydration. The ultimate soil builder and inexpensive meal ingredient :) Here's the link: kzbin.info/www/bejne/bqOvlaBmi5t1fc0

[@meauxjeaux431]

Are your beans stringless ? I just planted stringless pole beans, but I'm afraid that being stringless, they may be hybrid, and not heirloom, and may not be usable as seeds this fall.

[@SustainableStace]

My understanding is that there's no string to them if you harvest them when they are quite young. As they mature they develop a more fibrous string.

[@meauxjeaux431]

That's interesting, and the 1st time I ever heard that. I'll have to do a "field test" and find out.

[@colourzound1404]

where are the beans

[@SustainableStace]

As you can well imagine - it's hard to get footage of the full life cycle of the things I grow. It's about 100 days from planting to harvest on Pole Beans so . . this episode got the early and not the latter days of this crop. The channel does have harvesting of Pole Beans for seed - complete opposite end of the life cycle: kzbin.info/www/bejne/Z3XcdmOqbNB6o9U - around the 2:30 mark AND Growing and harvesting Dry Pole Beans: kzbin.info/www/bejne/bqOvlaBmi5t1fc0 wishing you well!

[@MrBwalendy]

No discussion about inoculant? Not good.

[@SustainableStace]

Thanks for your comment - I'm always keen to learn! I've never used an inoculant with peas or beans and never had any problems. What experiences have you had which cause your concern?

[@MrBwalendy]

It is not about having trouble. It is about production. Using an inoculant consistantly provides an increased yield. I would estimate close to double. Try it. Make sure it says bean and pea inoculant. There are many types of inoculants and not interchangeable. A good rhizobium bacteria is required as the inoculant for peas and beans. You don't want to pick a inoculant for soybeans or peanuts (for example). I hope that you try it this year.