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Pruning peas and beans?
I am growing wax beans and sugar snap peas in my small greenhouse. There is
very vigorous growth. I sometimes wonder if it is too much and keep9ing the interior of the plant from getting light. Does it make sense to prune these plants? Any recommendations on how? Please relate you experiences along those lines. Bill |
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Pruning peas and beans?
Pruning is for woody plants.
My closest experience is having a pole bean crossbeam fall and messed up the top of about 30 heirloom pole bean plants. They didn't really get over it and most of them died or went into shutdown soon afterwards. Though it was during the hot dry time last summer when everything including myself shut down for awhile. I did a web search for "prune" and "pea" and didn't find any hits. "Repeating Decimal" wrote in message ... I am growing wax beans and sugar snap peas in my small greenhouse. There is very vigorous growth. I sometimes wonder if it is too much and keep9ing the interior of the plant from getting light. Does it make sense to prune these plants? Any recommendations on how? Please relate you experiences along those lines. Bill |
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Pruning peas and beans?
On Thu, 20 Mar 2003 20:52:06 GMT, Repeating Decimal
wrote: I am growing wax beans and sugar snap peas in my small greenhouse. There is very vigorous growth. I sometimes wonder if it is too much and keep9ing the interior of the plant from getting light. Does it make sense to prune these plants? Any recommendations on how? Please relate you experiences along those lines. No. It *does* make sense to keep up with harvesting. Otherwise, the plants start putting energy into developing the seeds inside the growing pods, and stop generating new ones. |
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