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By Marie Iannotti, About.com Guide to Gardening since 2004

A Long Producing Vegetable Garden.
Extend Your Vegetable Growing Season.

Sunday August 9, 2009
It used to be that every vegetable had its season. Now you can buy most anything all year long. Even so, nothing beats garden fresh. So stretch out the season just a little bit longer. Keep your vegetable garden producing a bounty of vegetables well into the fall and maybe even winter months, if weather permits. A long producing vegetable garden is possible, if you heed some simple, but key gardening rules.

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August 16, 2008 at 10:26 am
(1) Joy Willis says:

After years of having a very productive garden, the green beans this year were almost non-existant. There were numerous blooms, but very few actual beans on the plant at any time during the season. Does anyone have an idea what went wrong?

August 19, 2008 at 5:19 pm
(2) gardening says:

Assuming you’re growing the same type of beans, it’s probably one of those temperamental problems that are so frustrating. Beans get fussy if the temperature and humidity are high. They’ll flower, but they won’t follow through with beans until the temperatures cool a bit.

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