[synchris]

I have grown French Climbing Beans - Cobra - this year with great success.  I want to save some seeds for next year.  Do I leave the pods on the plants to go yellow - as some of them are - or do I pick them green and dry them off indoors?

[plum crumble]

I always leave them on to go yellow - today just collected 70 odd to store ready for next year. Others may disagree - but have always done it like that
cheers

[synchris]

Thanks Plum Crumble, I will give them a bit longer.  But I need the plants out by the end of the month as my garlic are going in there. javascript:replaceText('%20:)',%20document.forms.postmodify.message);

[green_fingered_ash]

i have collected dwarf beans that have been on the plant and turned yellow(and crispy) hopefully these will have a good germination rate, i have 4 times the amount i need anyway so i sill have enough , even if only some germinate

ash

[peterjf]

been saving our seeds for yrs ,

this year our bean crops where not very good , we went onto local radio station , they told us that we had developed HALO BLIGHT  which comes from saved seeds ,

we not saving seeds again , better to be safe then sorry,

[tode]

Just make sure you dry em really well before storing in jam jar (for example), otherwise they'll go mouldy.

[DD.]

Beware cross-pollination as well. I've been saving climbing purple French bean seed for a few years now and they are not what they started out as!

I'm getting fresh seed next year.