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    Borlotti bean advice please

    I have dwarf and climbing Borlotti's all growing well. Am intending to leave on the plant and allow them to dry and then continue to dry indoors, ready for use during the winter. Is it ok to leave them all on the plants or should I pick and use some? And is there any difference in the dwarf and the climbing variety? Will they both dry and store ok?

    Thanks
    Last edited by veggiechicken; 06-08-2015, 05:03 PM. Reason: Title typo but I can;t edit it!
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    I've dried dwarf ones on the plant and they have kept fine, still got a few from last year. I don't think that there is any difference in the treatment of dwarf and climbing beans. You can also eat the beans fresh and I think as mange tout. I haven't tried them as I have loads of French beans.
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    • #3
      Yes I also have loads of French and Runners, the Borlotti's are nice used like French, so might still use some if I run out of the others!
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        I've tried editing the title but can't do it. I'll ask another Mod who may have a magic wand

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        • #5
          You can pick some young as normal french beans, pick some fresh but with developed beans and shell them like haricot or leave them to dry on the plants.

          AFAIK the difference between the climbing and dwarf beans (apart from height) is that the climbers mature and crop over a longer period than the dwarf (which develop and crop around the same time - although last year I only got 6 pods from my dwarfs so that wouldn't have been a long time even if they matured one at a time)

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          • #6
            Originally posted by veggiechicken View Post
            I've tried editing the title but can't do it. I'll ask another Mod who may have a magic wand

            It's changed now, thanks,clever people.
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            • #7
              The original title was very funny, Dotty. Sounded like some unmentionable female disease

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              • #8
                Originally posted by Dorothy rouse View Post
                Yes I also have loads of French and Runners, the Borlotti's are nice used like French, so might still use some if I run out of the others!
                Borlotti beans are French beans although I tend to refer to my drying beans as Borlotti and the ones I eat fresh as French. Bit daft now I think about it

                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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                • #9
                  Originally posted by veggiechicken View Post
                  The original title was very funny, Dotty. Sounded like some unmentionable female disease
                  Trying to think what it could be and failing, why did I miss out?

                  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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                  • #10
                    You wouldn't guess it in a month of Sundays, so I'll whisper it to you..................

                    Girl otitis

                    How Dotty's phone came up with that instead of Borlottis is a mystery

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                    • #11
                      Originally posted by veggiechicken View Post
                      The original title was very funny, Dotty. Sounded like some unmentionable female disease
                      Yes it was, but I can't remember what it was now! I might have got myself banned! For using inappropriate language!
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