posted 11 years ago
As long as you keep picking them, pole beans keep coming usually, which is why a pole bean might not give much more than bush. Pole beans tend to work great for green beans, since they just keep coming all year (down here, my black eyed peas turn into pole beans and last for about 18 months!)
Not sure, but I wouldn't bet the farm on too many dried bean pole beans.
This is true for most annuals, keep picking, they keep flowering, let them go to seed, and they die off.
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