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    I think I have sorted out a problem I had with dwarf green beans. Just before the plants went into full fruit i.e in flower stage, many of my plants would just give up and fall over. So, I thought why not put in a six inch stake at the side of plants? Will this work?
    Sodbuster.

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    They can get top-heavy, SD - if you put a short cane at each corner of your french bean row(s), then whizz round with some string/wire, that should give them enough support to keep upright.

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    • #3
      I've put one foot canes in to give mkne support. Same goes for the dwarf borlettis. Seems to work.

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      • #4
        Originally posted by sodbuster View Post
        my plants would just give up and fall over.
        Even if they fall over, they should still produce pods (mine do, and I never stake the dwarves). I think your problem is something else
        All gardeners know better than other gardeners." -- Chinese Proverb.

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        • #5
          I have grown dwarf french beans this season, they sort of flopped over a bit, but that was because they were full of beans!

          My dwarf beans have actually done far better than the climbers.

          Next year I will just be growing dwarfs and not bothering with any climbers.

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          • #6
            Originally posted by chilli_grower View Post
            I have grown dwarf french beans this season, they sort of flopped over a bit, but that was because they were full of beans!

            My dwarf beans have actually done far better than the climbers.

            Next year I will just be growing dwarfs and not bothering with any climbers.
            Ive had the opposite problem. Hardly a bean from my dwarves but loads from my climbers.
            Bex

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            • #7
              I was considering growing the climbing French beans next year because I am fed up of grovelling in the mud to pick the dwarf ones. I've never had a problem with the amount of beans, just the finding of them.

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              • #8
                Originally posted by greenishfing View Post
                I've never had a problem with the amount of beans, just the finding of them.
                Cosse Violette is a great one for the short-sighted
                It's also one of the earliest to crop & very prolific
                All gardeners know better than other gardeners." -- Chinese Proverb.

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                • #9
                  Originally posted by chilli_grower View Post
                  My dwarf beans have actually done far better than the climbers.
                  Originally posted by Bex View Post
                  Ive had the opposite problem. Hardly a bean from my dwarves but loads from my climbers.
                  They are variable, dwarf & climbers. My best dwarves are Black Valentine & Rocquencourt, the poorest are dwarf Barlotta with only one or 2 pods each plant.

                  Climbers, the best are most of them actually, but esp. Bridgewater & Moonlight (a runner which I use dry as a butter bean)
                  All gardeners know better than other gardeners." -- Chinese Proverb.

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                  • #10
                    Black valentine is one of my favourite dwarf varieties and is a good cropper. Though I think you get more for your space on a climbing variety, pick them young and small they crop for a very long time.

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