U-Pick Bean Season Is Here! Ottawa Farm Fresh
1 Video View·Sep 15, 2026
Come and experience the joy of harvesting your very own fresh veggies this week at the Farm in our pick-your-own french bean patch!
French beans are the perfect veggie to bring the family out to harvest fresh from the field - delicious, plentiful, and oh so versatile. We’re growing both green and yellow beans and they are abundant little beauties!
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AI GeneratedFamilies are invited to pick yellow and green beans starting this Thursday. The guide explains how to identify ripe beans, the proper harvesting technique to protect the plants, and a warning to avoid stepping on nearby pumpkin vines.
Woohoo! You picked beans already! Look at this! The beans are ready for you to come and pick them.
So, starting on Thursday, you can come with your family and pick some beans. And so,
I want to talk a bit about beans. These are, we got the yellow beans and we got green beans.
Yellow beans are actually green at the beginning. So here, if you see these guys are green,
that means they're not ready yet. You got to wait till they get big, about this size.
And when you come to pick the bean, make sure you don't rip the whole plant off. Because,
if you pick just the big beans, the smaller beans are going to grow and be ready for next week.
So, what you do is you sort of get in there, you sort of open up the plant a bit, and then you
see where the beans are, you come in, and you want to grip it somewhere close to the top here. The
goal is really to get that little tail on the bean, keep it on. That's going to help it store in your
fridge. But it's okay, if it comes off like that, it's no big deal. Keep it anyway, don't throw it
on the floor. You want to make sure you're picking the larger beans, not just the tiny ones. So,
I would say like this, this is probably the target size. And once the beans start to get really big,
like here, this one you can see, you can start to see a little bit of bumps on the side.
That's a sign that it's definitely ready. And if it gets any more bumpy than that,
it means the bean inside is starting to get mature and pasty. So, it's probably a little bit too far
past, and so if you can just pick that off the plant, drop it on the floor, that's best, because
then that'll free up some energy for the plant to grow more beans. And we've got both yellow and
green beans, and you're welcome to come on down with your family, pick some beans. Just, I do ask,
please be careful, unfortunately the pumpkins were planted right next to the beans, and they've
invading the bean patch. So, just be careful not to step on the pumpkin vines as you're
picking beans. But, bring the family, come on down, pick some beans, you pick beans!