I wouldn't be without French Climbing beans. For a small area of ground you can get a very large crop. Choosing your varieties well, you can get fresh 'snap' beans, shelling beans and dried beans. I have several wigwams each year, with a different variety on each. There's a fantastic array of colour to be had - green, purple, yellow and some are even splashed with red. Best of all, because they tend not to cross and are self fertile, you can save your seeds from year to year. I've grown the Yin-yang bean (sometimes called the Pea-bean) for about 7 years from one handfull of seed from a friend. This year's new (to me) varieties are the Cherokee Trail of Tears (a black bean for drying) and Bird's Egg - one of the red splashed type.

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vegheaven.blogspot.com Updated Aug 20th 2008