Dwarf drying bean

[gardendancer]

Hi there,

I was wondering in anyone could recommend a dwarf drying bean. I'm doing a version of 3 sisters planting this year with sweetcorn, dwarf french beans and butternut squash.

The problem i have is that once the squach spread the beans were difficult to get to, and i ended up issing loads so they grew big and tough, so I thought for next year it'd be good to grow beans that I could just leave there until it is all ready to come out.

Thank you

[Two_Sheds]

You can use any bean as a dried bean.

My favourite dwarf this year is Rocquencourt (yellow pods, black beans)

[womble]

I've tried this approach to the 3 sisters, I did it with climbing berlotti beans and it worked reasonably well. I grew the beans on garden arches set within the sweetcorn patch,a s they would have grown too tall to go up the corn.
I've tried dwarf normal beans this year and they haven't grown very well. Maybe because of the lack of light.

In all honesty I think it's better to grow these things separately, but squash can work well if the roots are given their own space.

I have a dwarf bean I got from someone on here (zazen) and it's a pinto bean for drying. Good yields and it seems to grow anywhere.
I should have some spare seed at the end of the year, pm me if you are interested.