Hi, Judy! If you are saving pole beans from seed, you want to pick all the pods from below knee level and maybe as far as your waist -- those pods will be splashed from the dirt so could pick up viruses, etc. You might as well eat them as green beans.
Keep the higher beans on the plant and let them dry on the vine -- you want to keep those as seed. Once they are dry, you keep the best for seed and eat the rest. If any beans form below your "cut-off", just eat them green. Other folks may have better suggestions for Tree of Heaven. Dorene Dorene Pasekoff, Coordinator St. John's United Church of Christ Organic Community Garden and Labyrinth A mission of St. John's United Church of Christ, 315 Gay Street, Phoenixville, PA 19460 _______________________________________________ The American Community Gardening Association listserve is only one of ACGA's services to community gardeners. To learn more about the ACGA and to find out how to join, please go to http://www.communitygarden.org To post an e-mail to the list: [email protected] To subscribe, unsubscribe or change your subscription: http://list.communitygarden.org/mailman/listinfo/community_garden_list.communitygarden.org
