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| One year the tenant on a farm where I rented a house had beans with pods very close to the ground. His combine cracked a couple low pods per plant and spread them. He ran his disk a few days after harvest in preparation for spring plowing. From my bedroom second floor window it looked like more beans came up than he had planted that previous spring. His cover crop didn't survive the first winter frost though.
I'm sure that spreading and disking them in would work get beans up in the spring, but would present some difficulties. They would be absolutely impossible to cultivate and spraying would run over good plants unless done expensively by air. But then I've hired sprayers that ran over a row planted on 30" spacing, and I'm sure that when I cultivated before going notill that I sometimes had some "cultivator blight."
Gerald J. | |
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Broadcast spreading beans.
