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Originally Posted by Lesley Jay  The planting suggestion was for dwarf borlotti beans which to be quite honest I think produce a poor crop so mass planting per station would at least produce a reasonable crop for the ground used.
Really it is down to how prolific the variety is and just how many beans you want to eat fresh, frozen or dried. |
That's my experience too LJ. On balance, for borlotti, I prefer intensively planted dwarf beans to the pole beans, even though the latter would give higher yield. Dwarfies suit me because:
- Once they're sown and mulched, they need no further attention; I can forget about them until harvest time
- Unlike fresh dwarf beans, you don't have to bend down to harvest them one by one, just snip off each 'group' at ground level and take them off for drying. Then the whole bed is ready for autumn sown onions!
- The bushes are a handy shape for hanging to dry
- There's no pole rigging and de-tangling and de-rigging!
