Just six plants?!?! I can't get through a season without 5-20 foot rows of beans so we can eat them until they come out of our ears! Room-constrained, I suspect.....
Pick them when they are what you are looking for as to length - usually 4 inches minimum for good quality, but before they get lumpy. Yes, if you keep them picked, they keep flowering - if you can avoid disease, pests, bugs, you can keep them going until frost. It may depend upon the variety, but I've kept them producing well for an entire season. Need to keep your hands off them when the plants are wet - spreads disease.
This year I am finally growing Speculator from Stokes - been reading about it in their catalog for many years....excellent bean!
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Craig
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