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    Beans n more beans


    So having been reading various threads, along with 3types of runner beans, now a purple queen dwarf variety, about to purchase some borlotti seeds, thinking of broad beans, I'm going to have a go at pinto beans. Am I insane I wonder.

    Does anyone grow lots of beans?
    Am I missing anything? Love any beans and as I supply plants or produce to my parents more the better.
    Northern England.
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    Butter beans?
    I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work. Thomas A. Edison

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    • #3
      I will need to order up a long hot summer
      Northern England.

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      • #4
        have a ganders at this thread http://www.growfruitandveg.co.uk/gra...ans_26962.html

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        • #5
          I grew borlotti beans a couple of years ago and didn't think the crop was worth the effort. Other people may have had much more luck than me, so don't take my word for it. That said, I'm going to try growing cannelini beans this year in the hope that they're as easy and productive as dwarf French beans, which are brilliant: very little work, good crop and miles better than shop-bought ones. I've also got a hankering to try flageolet beans, as I reckon they might be like dwarf French beans to grow as well.

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          • #6
            I grow Borlottis every year (they're a type of French bean) and have sufficient to dry and eat throughout the winter. I grow 4 different varieties so I get a nice mix in the jar. Don't really bother with dwarf ones as they're a pain to pick and the harvest is a lot smaller than climbing ones.

            Some of us live in the past, always talking about back then. Some of us live in the future, always planning what we are going to do. And, then there are those, who neither look behind or ahead, but just enjoy the moment of right now.

            Which one are you and is it how you want to be?

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            • #7
              Grew Borlotti beans for the first time last year. Smashing and versatile beans, eaten green like runners, fresh beans and dried beans for winter and we are still eating them!!! Haricot beans, well I just let the French beans go to seed and then dried them.
              Gardening requires a lot of water - most of it in the form of perspiration. Lou Erickson, critic and poet

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              • #8
                I'm going bean daft now
                Northern England.

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                • #9
                  I'm doing borlotti beans, broad beans and runner beans for the first time this year - I'm very excited about it! In fact... I've got a bit obsessed with bean and pea seeds - I have a right collection ready for next year when I have more room

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                  • #10
                    I grow the following:

                    Crimson broad beans - for salads
                    Longpod broad beans for steaming
                    Borlotti - for drying
                    Firestorm runners
                    Neckergold french beans - stay yellow when steamed
                    Cobra french beans

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                    • #11
                      I usually just grow runner beans but I'm trying borlotti this year for the first time,they were in the 50p buckets at wyvale sale ages ago,bargain beans!
                      Location : Essex

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                      • #12
                        I'm trying two types of runner beans, just to compare them really. Also some French beans and broad beans for the first time this year.
                        ~~~ Gardening is medicine that does not need
                        a prescription ... And with no limit on dosage.
                        - Author Unknown ~~~

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                        • #13
                          Seems there's more than me gone bean daft gawd I hope this weather picks up, it's a tad 'fresh' out there
                          Northern England.

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                          • #14
                            I grow broad, runner, French (dwarf and climbing) and various others that vary each year.
                            There are some DFBs and CFBs in the GH as we speak............as well as Mangetout which I'm picking now.
                            You get good value for space with beans and peas.

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