Like Two Beans in a Pod

Succession planting is a way to grow more vegetables in garden beds, but it can work in containers, too.

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The vines of the French flageolet verts have wound their way around the triangular trellis and the small over-embellished blooms let me know I ’ll soon be plunk the first of this delicate crop of bean . I ’m look forward to enjoying these yellowed magnetic pole beans because they follow the crop of sugar snap pea that grew in the container just a few unretentive weeks ago .

By found the bean to stick to the pea , I was using the old technique of sequence planting and try it works as well in a big container as it does in the field or garden .

Succession planting is one of the means to increase a season ’s yield , even for gardener with circumscribed garden space .

Because the pea are a nerveless - season craw , I was able to engraft them in the container in April and enjoyed watching them go up the trellis through the spring . I start plucking pea from the vine in June and used them in all kind of veggie stir - fry dishes .

or else of waiting for all the peas to be harvest , I plant a crop of warm - season celestial pole attic in the same container . They germinate rapidly in the warm conditions , raise up the treillage and intermingled with the peas . I was pleased to see the peas assist protect the seedlings from hungry razzing .

After all the pea were harvested , I clipped the vines forth from the treillage to disclose a new crop of vegetable .

The key to succession planting is matching the amount of time each crop need to grow with the number of days left in the growing time of year .

Peas and bean worked for me , but there are other vegetable combination I could have tried , too . For example , I could have waited until I harvested all of the pea , tilled the container soil and plant a crop that would age in the fall , like leafy greens , beets , turnips or cultivated carrot .

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