bertiefox
gardener
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Post by bertiefox on Aug 6, 2011 6:00:39 GMT -5
The variety of dwarf French bean I've been growing recently, Braimar (a French one) is great, except it produces a huge crop and then goes 'dormant' for weeks before flowering again and producing a much smaller crop. Could anyone recommend a variety that just produces beans continually over a much longer period (obviously if they are kept picked), ideally a European or widely available one?
I know I can grow climbing beans which last much longer but these tend to start producing later and need supports which aren't always so easy to set up and maintain.
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Post by ottawagardener on Aug 6, 2011 8:16:39 GMT -5
Waiting for the answer on this one.  |
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Post by grunt on Aug 6, 2011 10:34:53 GMT -5
Fin de Bagnols is going to get its third picking in about 3 days.
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Post by raymondo on Aug 6, 2011 20:41:03 GMT -5
Dragon Tongue produces over a reasonable period, for a bush bean. It's been some years but I think Slenderette does too. The surest way with bush beans though is successive sowings.
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Post by 12540dumont on Aug 7, 2011 14:47:42 GMT -5
I grow many kinds of green beans Stangenbohne Ilanza - Swiss Pole Photo Above Marvel of Venice - Italian Romano Pole Beurre De Rocquencourt - a French Bush S. Anna - a French Filet. Pole So far this summer, none of these have quit. But we've had coastal fog in the mornings and cool evenings, ramping up to the mid 80's during the day. Fabulous weather. Yesterday from a 25' row I picked 6 pounds of Beuree De Roquencourt. And probably 10 lbs of S. Anna's from a 50 foot row. The Romano's have just now started and I haven't finished picking the Stangenbohne's. Beans, beans beautiful beans. My spouse's theory for how to get beans not to quit, is to plant your beans and 2 weeks later, plant another crop. While one is staggering through the heat, the other comes on. Attachments:
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Post by steev on Aug 7, 2011 19:39:21 GMT -5
I've always thought the whole point of bush beans was that they're developed for field planting, without needing trellising, and produce a concentrated crop so they can be harvested and something else can go in.
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Post by 12540dumont on Aug 7, 2011 20:59:07 GMT -5
Dunno Steev, We always get a second flush when the weather cools. If it's really hot. I don't really like bush beans all that well. I prefer the poles, the beans are off the ground, they add beautiful vertical height, and I don't have to crawl on my knees picking.
If I knew then what I know now, I would have stayed in the lodge drinking hot buttered rum rather than skiing.
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Post by steev on Aug 7, 2011 23:33:22 GMT -5
I'm not saying any preference for plant habit, that's just what it seems the thrust of breeding has been, with pole beans being relegated more to gardening, rather than farming. Being more a gardener, myself, I would admit to liking Kentucky Wonder poles for the length of time they can keep me in green beans to braise with a bit of bacon and onion; tasty hot or cold.
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