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Another veg I lurve....want to try some different sorts (quel surprise!).
Has anyone tried growing flageolet beans or cannellini beans?
Has anyone tried growing flageolet beans or cannellini beans?
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Nope, but I'm trying Climbing French beans this year as the runners have been crap the last two years mainly high temps I think. So I'm going to try LJ's recommendations blue lakentg
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Depending on your soil (for some reason they don't like our Wilts soil) I'd agree we loved Blue Lake, great flavour & if you leave them they make tasty haricot too.
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i too am trying blue lake this year. Also trying dwarf varieties - sprite, safari and tendergreen.
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I'm trying Soissons beans for the first time this year - the sort that are supposed to be eaten green (shelled 'fresh' from their pods when ripe, with just a few minutes' cooking) or dried in the normal way and shelled. I do find bush varieties just a little lower on yield, but ideal for cutting down at root level at the end of the season to leave those nitrogen-speckled roots in the soil. Dwarves are trouble free if mulched well, no weeding - and hung in the greenhouse on a washing line to dry (they look so pretty!). Climbing beans are higher yield and less likely to be munched from below, but a little more finicky with the poles, individual picking, and de-tangling the bean straw from the poles at the end of the season IMO
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Ain't soissons vert aka flageolet?
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Erm, not sure alors, I'm hoping these will be white
FromThomas Etty - dwarf version of Soissons Gros Blanc a Rames.Last edited by supersprout; 20-01-2007, 10:06 PM.SSx
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Last edited by smallblueplanet; 20-01-2007, 10:16 PM.To see a world in a grain of sand
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I'm going to have a go a barlotti (have I spelt it correctly?) beans this year. DDLBernie aka DDL
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me too dexter dog. I think it's borlotti. The pods look beautiful but I was disapointed to find out the beans turn green when cooked.Comment
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I was surprised at how similar they are to broad beans when cooked, which I love!Originally posted by serenity View Post
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I grow both climbing and dwarf Borlotti from Franchi and the Italian Seed Company - both turn out pink!Originally posted by serenity View Post
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Borlotti beans are very tasty indeed, and freeze very easily. We grow Barlotta Lingua Di Fuoco & Borlotto Lamon, both climbers
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Still not sure - let's have beans in the cyber veggie show!Originally posted by smallblueplanet View Post
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Cyber veggie show?Originally posted by supersproutStill not sure - let's have beans in the cyber veggie show!
We do this with the beans from Blue Lake, blauhilde, kentucky wonder, they're all haricot type. Is this unusual?Originally posted by supersprout
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