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Old 10-01-2007, 09:26 PM
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Question - ya know when you buy 'fine beans' from the supermarket, they're little thin green beans????? Well so are they a particular type of green bean or just any ol' bean picked early? We've grown climbing french beans and they've never seemed so 'fine' as the supermarket ones?
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They are Kenyan Safari Dwarf French Beans available from T & M. Lovely!
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Last time I saw these they were in a warehouse in Ostend Airport waiting for me to bring them home to Blighty in a truck having just been flown in from Africa.
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Then grow your own because they are lovely!!
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Then some poor Kenyan farmer would be out of a job LJ .
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Thanks LJ - are they available as a climber? I always think that dwarf beans are a waste of space.
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They are the ones I know and grow. You get huge bunches of beans. Well worth growing.
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Well, they are on the list to grow, sound scrummy!
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Sorry SBP it is Suttons where I buy them from not T&M.
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You're losing it LJ!

Thanks, but I think I might try Cobra, I prefer climbing beans.
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