Grow Your Own Magazine

I'm still quite new to this obsession, growing veg on an allotment, and therefore experimenting. I decided to have a go at borolltie beans. The french beans, Blue Lake are growing well up the canes but the Borlotti beans are needing to be tied in, not what I had expected, is this what you would normally expect to happen? I was going to eat some of the Borlotti beans fresh & dry some to use during winter. Do you have to soak them from dried as with shop bought beans before you can use them? First...

sue&grahame