>> Plant them earlier next time of you want a frenzy of peas set early in the fall.
Sounds right. I'm always getting to garden tasks late, but plants don't respond to excuses.
>> I don't know how you guys that really love bush beans and pick a lot do it.
back when I grew bush snow peas, I always planted them in a raised bed that saved me around 12" of stooping. Also, I draped the bush snow peas over strings to keep them off the soil.
I don't think I've ever had a "bush anything" really stand up straight and support itself. I alwys wwanted to try the idea called "pea brush" where you save fallen branches with a lot of forks or side branches, and push them into the ground around pea plants to give them something to cling to and climb up. But I don't have much or any fallen wood in this yard.
