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Post by diane on Oct 8, 2018 20:36:16 GMT -5
I bought a package of Elegant Beans green flageolet beans when I was in California, planning to eat most of them but grow some
for the future since I don't get to California often.
I have just googled to see how tall they grow, and found a disquieting fact: there are white flageolets, and pale green ones, but the
green ones are that colour because they are picked and dried while they are immature.
I wonder if they are mature enough to germinate?
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Post by diane on Oct 14, 2018 10:59:27 GMT -5
No, they aren't. I just tossed out the ones I tried to sprout.
If I want to grow them, I would need to buy a proper packet of seeds, or maybe some white ones meant for cooking.
The white ones would presumably have been allowed to mature before harvest.
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Post by ferdzy on Oct 16, 2018 12:28:38 GMT -5
I tried growing flageolet last summer and had to pull them out before they got very far because it turned out that they are *extremely* susceptible to anthracnose. I was sad because I really like them.
If you could grow them, though, I wonder if you could select the ones that kept more of a green tinge as they mature.
This year I tried growing out some beans that came out of a Cherokee Trail of Tears - Anseloni's Bologna cross, that were and odd, lumpy shape and light green when dried. It turned out that they had just dried down early last year; this year they were white, hard to pick, hard to shell, nonproductive and not very disease resistant. Ha ha! Guess who's not getting grown again.
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Post by zeedman on Nov 7, 2018 20:46:27 GMT -5
diane , have you ever tried or heard of "Soissons Vert"? It is a pole flageolet, with seeds that remain light green even when dry.
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Post by diane on Nov 7, 2018 20:56:02 GMT -5
No, I've never heard of it. Do you know a source?
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Post by diane on Nov 8, 2018 16:04:59 GMT -5
I bought a cup and a half of Whole Foods Ten Bean Mix in the bulk foods. Cost $4, so would be expensive used for food, but a bargain
used for seeds. One of them looks like a green flageolet.
I've sorted them. They are all small.
The two largest are a red and a white kidney.
Two tinies - a round black and a cream oval with a black eye.
The others are in-between sized - oval yellow, round buff, long pale green, brown and white speckled, half black/half white, pale brown speckled red.
I'll grow a couple of each in my greenhouse to see whether they are bush or pole, so I'll know how to grow them in the garden next year.
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