Bean varieties?

[Snadger]

I have just harvested my climbing beans and have three distict colours!

The red splash are Borlotti!

The others which resemble purple runner beans could possibly be Blauhilde?

The othere I think are something coco, but seem to have yin yan beans in them?

In the tub are a mixture of Epicure,(red broadie) Scarlet flowered (green broadie) and a whiteish coloured broadie of indeterminate heritage?

Any ideas?

[zazen999]

Could be monastic coco which look like yin yangs.....did you note what you sowed or had to start with?

[SarzWix]

The purple ones look very like Cosse Violette

[HeyWayne]

White Apollo maybe?

I grew some this year - the "yin/yang" beans are white with a dark purply coloured splash.

Have a look at my blog, about half way down:

The Hay Wayne

[Snadger]

Could be monastic coco which look like yin yangs.....did you note what you sowed or had to start with?

I put labels on them but all I could read was 'coco'! Sounds about right though Zazen!

I had a blauhilde label on purple ones but when I googled Blauhilde they seemed rounder and less coarse?

[rustylady]

TwoSheds is the bean expert. I've now started using a proper indelible marker pen for my labels cos they fade. Also trying to remember to write sowings and placings in the diary.

[Two_Sheds]

The purple ones look very like Cosse Violette

that's what I thought. They'd have plain beige seeds inside

[chuffa]

Could be Blauhilde, they look the same as mine. They probably coarser because they look older than mine. If they are left on the plant for drying they do go a little scabby.

[lottie dolly]

I would say deffinaley cosse violett,they look exactly like mine do when they matured,that is,like they sprayed green and purple,especially if hidden in the foliage,the leaves are darker green,with purple veins and on the stems,very tasty beans,

[Flummery]

I have some Monastic Coco which I haven't sown this year. The seeds are exactly like the yin-yang I usually grow. The allotment I've just taken over had yin-yang growing to so I have a lot drying now. If your seeds are like yin-yang and there's coco on the label, monastic it is! Don't you wonder how some of these got their names?

[zazen999]

The only difference I've found between monastic coco and yin yang is that the monastic ripened earlier. Apart from that, nothing in it - perhaps they were split years ago and the monastic were cultivated from earlier ripening and the yin yang weren't.....

[Snadger]

I still have some Blue Lake (I think) drying on the wigwam and annother indeterminate which I won't know what they are until dried.

I know, I should be more organised but it's quite fun doing a 'Sherlock Holmes' at the end of the season!

One problem I have found with my 'pocket' planting regime is that you need a heck of a lot more labels!

[HeyWayne]

One problem I have found with my 'pocket' planting regime is that you need a heck of a lot more labels!

Funny you should mention the pocket thing Snadger.

I often will be wearing my 3/4 shorts on the plot that have the pockets on teh legs. I will also often be found on the plot without a bag. What I therefore tend to do is fill my pockets with beans (it's seems daft to take them home to shell them, then to bring the "shells" back down to the plot to put them on the compost heap).

I've found many a stray bean in my pockets before now.

[phil the shed]

Funny you should mention the pocket thing Snadger.

I often will be wearing my 3/4 shorts on the plot that have the pockets on teh legs. I will also often be found on the plot without a bag. What I therefore tend to do is fill my pockets with beans (it's seems daft to take them home to shell them, then to bring the "shells" back down to the plot to put them on the compost heap).

I've found many a stray bean in my pockets before now.

sorry big fella not the sort of pocket planting the snadger was on about hee hee

[Snadger]

Funny you should mention the pocket thing Snadger....................



................I've found many a stray bean in my pockets before now.

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