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    borlotti beans

    Hi
    Have sown some borlotti beans, which are ready to plant out. Has anyone else grown these and what are they like? do they need supporting at all?
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    grew some a couple years ago
    climbed them up a wigwam of canes just like a runner bean

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    • #3
      They are a type of climbing bean like climbing French beans, so will need similar support. - Did you buy a named variety of seed? most widely available is 'Lingua di fuoco'. The beans are pale green with red splotches and can be eaten fresh, as runners or French beans, or left to mature and used dried.

      a-a

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      • #4
        I've got two types of borlotti -- some dwarf (just stick 'em in), some climber (build a wigwam).
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        • #5
          I don't know what they are called, unfortunately. Looking at the size of them I think they might be a dwarf type. thanks for your help ! : )

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          • #6
            Originally posted by Normans Mum View Post
            I don't know what they are called, unfortunately. Looking at the size of them I think they might be a dwarf type. thanks for your help ! : )
            They all start out small!

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            • #7
              Plant them out anyway, if they turn out to be climbers, pop some canes next to them
              All gardeners know better than other gardeners." -- Chinese Proverb.

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              • #8
                Originally posted by alex-adam View Post
                They are a type of climbing bean like climbing French beans
                They are French beans, aka pole/climbing/green/snap etc etc

                All are varieties of the "common bean", phaseolus vulgaris
                All gardeners know better than other gardeners." -- Chinese Proverb.

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                • #9
                  I've planted both this year for the first time - some climbing, and some 'nain' which is 'dwarf' apparently. So as said above, the climbers have a cane each and the littlies will get sticks probably. I'm so looking forward to watching them grow, and eating them later - I get so excited every time a new 'something' pops its head out of the pot or the ground! Lol .
                  sigpicGardening in France rocks!

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                  • #10
                    thanks for your help, guys. Zazen, I don't know an awful lot about growing (yet) but I do know that they ARE dwarf, despite being small.

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                    • #11
                      I grow dwarf borlotti's and I find they still need some support. I use sticks at the end of the row and then twist string in and out of them ..
                      S*d the housework I have a lottie to dig
                      a batch of jam is always an act of creation ..Christine Ferber

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                      • #12
                        Originally posted by Normans Mum View Post
                        thanks for your help, guys. Zazen, I don't know an awful lot about growing (yet) but I do know that they ARE dwarf, despite being small.
                        You said you think they might be dwarf, by the size of them. If you'd said 'they are dwarf' then you'd have got a different answer.

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