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  • Cherokee Trail of Tears climbing bean

    Any members grown this variety this season? - How good was the crop?

    I grew 10 plants up a wigwam (very appropriate!) but I must say somewhat disappointed with the yield. Oh well, try again next year.

    a-a

  • #2
    It's bean a bad year for beans all round IMHO.

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    • #3
      Mine have been rubbish too..

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      • #4
        well, mine have had their best year ever (Cherokee that is). I was lucky with my beans, they struggled a bit staying alive in the drought in May, but since then we've had lots of rain and they've come good
        : I've had, let me count ... 8.5kg of beans in various guises
        Last edited by Two_Sheds; 18-09-2011, 05:45 PM.
        All gardeners know better than other gardeners." -- Chinese Proverb.

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        • #5
          We bought an IBC container and it didn't rain for 2 months; our lottie neighbour had to fill it up with his extremely long hose....and as soon as he did it's rained ever since and we've used it 3 times.

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          • #6
            I've grown Cherokee three years running, and it's usually excellent, both for yield and flavour.
            Tour of my back garden mini-orchard.

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            • #7
              I grew it last year and got a good crop too, but this year I couldnt get any french bean type crops to do much. I put it down to the weather.
              Dont give up, try again next year

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              • #8
                I haven't tried Cherokee, but my French beans have not been very good. I bought some yellow beans from Aldi/Lidl and they were rubbish, the beans got to be no bigger than 3cms and all were curled like little claws. What's that all about?
                Whether you think you can or whether you think you can't, you are probably right.
                Edited: for typo, thakns VC

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                • #9
                  Don't talk to me about beans
                  Granny on the Game in Sheffield

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                  • #10
                    Originally posted by singleseeder View Post
                    the beans got to be no bigger than 3cms and all were curled like little claws. What's that all about?
                    Could be many different things. Can you tell us how & when you sowed, where you kept the seedlings?
                    All gardeners know better than other gardeners." -- Chinese Proverb.

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                    • #11
                      Originally posted by zazen999 View Post
                      It's bean a bad year for beans all round IMHO.
                      For us, (NW kent) broad beans have been fanastic. Runners poor. French good for me and bad for my mother. Watering the drought was the key I think.

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                      • #12
                        As above, my beans French and runners have been prolific.
                        History teaches us that history teaches us nothing. - Hegel

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                        • #13
                          My ToT haven't been too good this year, nor my Blauhilde but they did get a cold snap just after planting out. The runners (can't remember the variety) have done OK but my Blue Lake have been terrific. Have a freezer full.

                          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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                          • #14
                            Hmm, I've had 9 runner and borlotti beans in total ,but my peas (purple pods) are to die for and still cropping heavily.;-)

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                            • #15
                              First time I've grown them so I've nothing to compare to, and I've only grown one plant, but I've had a few. Yield seems ok. Nothing special, but they're tasty enough.
                              Our England is a garden, and such gardens are not made
                              By singing-'Oh how beautiful!" and sitting in the shade,
                              While better men than we go out and start their working lives
                              At grubbing weeds from gravel paths with broken dinner-knives. ~ Rudyard Kipling

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