depending on what beans you've been growing this year so what is your preference for a good eating bean maybe its runner beans French beans flat podded beans dwarf beans perhaps an Italian variety do you go for a stringless variety the varieties are plenty
I guess like us you grow your beans more for taste than quantity unlike the commercial growers who grow for supermarkets and other outlets more I guess for quantity
so what bean varieties do grow grow and consider is the best for you do you think runner beans are better than French or vice versa we tend to freeze our beans to use in the winter months when pickings of the allotments are a bit sparse
the variety we hope to grow next year will be Armstrong as runner and Cobra as a climbing French bean we also intend to grow Dwarf French Stanley never grew the Italian or red bean because not sure how to cook it or what it complements we have grew flat podded in the past and they cropped well and had a good taste
i know it seems early to talk about growing beans but as you flit through those seed catalogues trying to decide what variety to grow decisions decisions you mite even end up buying the same variety as you did last year
so any comments what varieties you grew and how they turned out for you is always of interest I'm sure to most of our members including me
and on the subject of Beans broad beans come to mind I know some of you have already set your broad beans to overwinter so again what do you think in your opinion is the best broad bean to grow for both overwintering and spring sowings we don't sow broad beans to overwinter so our spring sowings are a green bean variety Masterpiece green longpod and all our beans are started of in the greenhouse or poly tunnel
so any replies to this topic will be most welcome