Allotment Gardening Advice Help Chat
Growing => Grow Your Own => Topic started by: Daisygirl on December 03, 2013, 18:58
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what climbing french beans please my dears
summer
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Green, yellow or purple? :D
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Cobra for the green (tasty and productive). Not got a favourite yellow and purple, will be looking at what others suggest.
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I tried violet podded beans from DT Brown this year - loadsa tasty stringless beans. They go green on cooking, but taste great raw. They got to about 8ft high.
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Cobra or Blue Lake for green ones.
Purple Queen or P Teepee for dwarf purple ones. Can't remember the climbing ones but they all seem to do well.
Goldfield is an unusual flat-podded (stringless) yellow one, which I thought tasted quite buttery.
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I am definitely growing Climbing Blue Lake again next year - this years were delicious, stringless and cropped from July to October :) I am going to try the dwarf Purple Teepee next year too.
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Trionfo Violetto is a good strong purple variety, if your site is cold & windy ;)
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This season I planted about 10 varieties and then when picking I mixed them all up before eating or freezing. The mixing them all up has made a wonderful taste as they all are different and each add flavour. I'm going to do the same this year. I picked 30 odd Kg's and frozen loads.
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They are not so readily available, but my favourites are Cherokee Trail of Tears, green sometimes mottled purple, and for purple I grew Blue Coco from the Heritage Seed Library for the first time this year and it was a fantastic cropper.
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They are not so readily available, but my favourites are Cherokee Trail of Tears.
Just for info, RealSeeds have these in stock regularly.
http://www.realseeds.co.uk/beans.html (http://www.realseeds.co.uk/beans.html)
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Deffo Cobra for taste & productivity.
They grow quite tall like Runners so are easy to pick. They crop over quite a long period and took my last pick in October this year.
I have tried a number of French Green Beans over the years and Cobra always turn out best. The only negative is seed germination, I never get better than 75% germination.
But overall Deffo Cobra, they also won a RHS Award of Garden Merit.
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Funny, isn't it - I can't grow Cobra here, tried it a few years running with no success. I think the allotment site is too windy for them :unsure:
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I grew cobra last year and had a fantastic crop from them .This year I tried blue lake and although a good crop
I didn't think there was as many or as good as cobra ,which I will grow again next year .
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They are not so readily available, but my favourites are Cherokee Trail of Tears.
Just for info, RealSeeds have these in stock regularly.
http://www.realseeds.co.uk/beans.html (http://www.realseeds.co.uk/beans.html)
Yes, that's where I got mine from. However, I think they are the only supplier in the UK apart from the Heritage Seed Library or someone you know who has saved seed. I didn't want people to think they would be able to pick them up at their garden centre or Wilkinsons.
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Yep, me too. Just thought the link might be handy. :)
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Definitely going to go for the 10 variety idea.
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I like a mix of colours too, and have now added Kentucky Yellow Wonder to my regulars. It is a climbing wax pod, and tastes quite different to the yellow flat pods I grow.
Premier Seeds are the only stockist I know, but there may be others of course