Our plants are bright and healthy. They are continuing to grow bigger each day. We recently started seeing little white flowers on our beans. These flowers are what will help our plants reproduce. Our beans could increase their numbers as bees come around and help fertilize the flowers by spreading the pollen. The flowers would then grow into the actual beans. As the beans sit there for a while they dry out and fall off the plant, if not picked, dropping into the soil to grow up next year increasing the bean plant numbers.
There are many factors that would limit the number of beans that can grow in each garden box though. These factors may include soil availability, water availability, space availability, and bee population for fertilization. If there are too many beans in a enclosed areas they will not have enogh soil to stabilize in and will not be able to collect as much sunlight for photosynthesis making it hard for them to survive. On that note, I believe the carrying capacity of one garden box for Phaseolus vulgaris is three hundred and twenty-five plants. I believe there is room for this many if not more. However, I believe the main limitation would be lack of resources causing the carrying capacity to be somewhere around three hundred and twenty-five.
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