Dry Pole Beans Typical Yield

Nov 12, 2019 00:05:13

Next year, I'm planning on using a modified three sisters method to save garden space and train pole beans up my popcorn stalks. I would like to know what would be a typical yield by weight for dry pole beans so I know how much to plant, but so far I have only found yields measured for bush beans grown in intensive monocultures. I am wondering in anyone on this forum has any experience growing dry pole beams and can give me a good estimate on how much I should expect to harvest by weight in dry beans either grown up a trellis or trained up corn stalks.

Nov 12, 2019 06:54:52

I haven't tried dry pole beans before. My dry bush beans (Lofthouse variety) yield about a quart of beans for a 25' long row. I'd imagine pole beans would roughly be in that same neighborhood (within 50%).

Nov 12, 2019 15:32:14

I spent about four hours searching for answers to my original question early this morning. So far, it looks like dry bush beans yield about 1500 lbs of shelled beans per acre. For dry pole beans, one Brittish gardener got 700grams (about 1.5 lbs) of beans from six Cherokee Trail of Tears pole bean plants during a good growing year in 2012.

https://marksvegplot.blogspot.com/2012/09/cherokee-trail-of-tears-beans.html?m=1

Considering this would mean he got about 117 grams (4 oz) of beans per plant, this yield seems reasonable compared to the 2.25-3 oz of beans I got per wooly bean plant (Strophostyles helvola) this year. The problem with these calculated yields is that when they are scaled up, assuming a planting rate of 86,388 plants per acre and the yield remains constant per plant, I would get 21,266 lbs of Cherokee Trail of Tears beans per acre and about 15,000 lbs of wooly beans per acre. Such yields seem to fall on the lower end of potato yields per acre. I must be getting something wrong when I made the calculations.

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