einbok harrow in spring beans

[organic antares]

Hi has anyone done this, how big can beans be? Does it do any good or will it do more harm

 

[average farmer]

Are you planning on doing this to kill weeds or some other reason? Have you applied pre ems ? Sorry just read your name so i'd think yes and no.

 

[organic antares]

Yes weeding, also harrowing cereals seems to stimulate them a bit dont know if it works on beans as well

 

[bobajob]

Did you read last weeks farmers guardian? Someone in Lancashire doing it on beans, said its not for the faint hearted but it fairly helped the beans (from what I remember reading). Would be worth reading the article/ speaking to him

 

[organic antares]

Didnt see that, I will look it up

Did you read last weeks farmers guardian? Someone in Lancashire doing it on beans, said its not for the faint hearted but it fairly helped the beans (from what I remember reading). Would be worth reading the article/ speaking to him

I didnt see that, I will have to look it up

 

[Two Tone]

I well remember growing Spring beans for the first time in1977 in north east Suffolk. My grandfather told me that they would need harrowing. He waited till my father was abroad on business, drove his Mercedes over from Cambidgeshire, got our foreman Geoff to hook a set of mounted zig zag harrows onto a Fordson Dexter, take it down to the 50 acre field, parked his Mercedes in the gateway so that Geoff couldn't leave the field till it was all harrowed!

I'll never forget the bitter smell of bruised bean plants and the fact that they all looked like they were dying. When Geoff came back to the yard, he said that they had all had their chips!

Father came home and was beside himself with rage at my grandfather!

But the old bugger was right. A week later those beans had exploded into life, never stopped growing and yielded 2 tons an acre.

Not at all bad for Maris Bead Tic Beans.

 

[multi power]

I know fudge all about beans, I'm just a cowman but they use einbock on cereals here, done some last few days, organic spring barley

 

[7610 super q]

They will recover remarkably well. To get rid of weeds however, you need to do it early.
Harrowing them hard is supposed to make them tiller.

 

[shakerator]

I well remember growing Spring beans for the first time in1977 in north east Suffolk. My grandfather told me that they would need harrowing. He waited till my father was abroad on business, drove his Mercedes over from Cambidgeshire, got our foreman Geoff to hook a set of mounted zig zag harrows onto a Fordson Dexter, take it down to the 50 acre field, parked his Mercedes in the gateway so that Geoff couldn't leave the field till it was all harrowed!

I'll never forget the bitter smell of bruised bean plants and the fact that they all looked like they were dying. When Geoff came back to the yard, he said that they had all had their chips!

Father came home and was beside himself with rage at my grandfather!

But the old bugger was right. A week later those beans had exploded into life, never stopped growing and yielded 2 tons an acre.

Not at all bad for Maris Bead Tic Beans.

They might have done 2.5t left alone!!

 

[Two Tone]

They might have done 2.5t left alone!!

Ha ha. Nah,

Rarely ever managed to do 1.75 without harrowing. We reckoned 1.5 tons/acre was good with Maris Bead. The were a small bean ideal for pigeon fanciers.

 

[herman]

My grandad used to say "Harrow em once to thin em twice to thicken em" as a young lad I thought he was mad . He even wanted to chain Harrow the spuds down when they were nicely up and re ridge them to kill the weeds !
But he was old school and they didn't have the chemicals in his day so how else could they control the weeds ?
I am a big believer in rolling corn in the spring to help it tiller, but it's a no-no if you have used pre ems .