Show BEST BEANS TO GROW some like bush and lima varieties because easy to grow others prefer pole limas lima on account of quality quantity and season of profitable bearing also alo large A writer says bays that both bush and lima beans beana aro are more satisfactory and easier to grow than the polo pole limas now every ono tor for his bis choice but 1 wo prefer the polo pola limas every time for quality quantity and long season ot at profitable bearing says bays a writer in an exchange it is true that setting pole polca for plants to vino vine ou on requires work than when no poles polea aro are used but tho the results moro more than pay for all the work tho the trouble with most of us in our gardening and tanning farming Is that wo we try to grow things in the easiest way but the easiest way la Is seldom tho the best way wo we should never bo be satisfied with anything short abort of tho the best pole lima beans are the largest and best beans beana grown make tho the soil as loose and rich and fine as possible harrow disk and harrow barrow till the tha surface to Is a smooth fine and mellow as an ash heap aitay itay off rows rowa both ways about four feet apart and plant three seeds to tho hill at tho the crossing of tho the rows cultivate young lima beans as aa tor for other garden plants keeping ho he surface clean fine and level allow no weeds to grow close to tho the cultivated plants na as limas will not thrive in the presence oi of estrange co company dripan sol so mo people to reduce labor plant corn or sunflower in the same hill bill with pole lima beans for the vines to climb this is a grave mistake tor for two good plants cannot grow in a place where there is room enough for only one ona A nr jn hamper of pole lima beans poor bean crop always results from this method as ono one good old gardener puts it it la Is the lazy mans way ot of gardening we pole our beans with round poles about eight feet long and the tha thickness of ones wrist they are set ono one pole to each hill bill and the four poles polea form a square brought together and tied with common binder twine about nixie nine feet from the ground this gives a wigwam frame with firm broad base and io so substantial that no ordinary form will blow it over almost all other members of the bean family are quick maturing plants planta and the life of the crop covers only a part of the growing season not so BO with pole lima beans they are rather slow growing it requires pearly ninety days for the v vines to fully mature and come into heavy bearing but after the vines begin to bear they continue to produce blos souls and fruit all through tile the remainder of the growing season so long as the green beans aro are regularly i picked and more allowed to ripen 0 providing there la Is sufficient moisture re in the soil to sustain growth keeping out all weeds and grass and keeping the surface raked loose and fine will help to conserve soil moisture at dry times A A light severing savoring of straw on the surface will also help to conserve 6 soil bolt moisture during august and september when rains are often infrequent and evaporation great |