borlotti beans

[Normans Mum]

Hi
Have sown some borlotti beans, which are ready to plant out. Has anyone else grown these and what are they like? do they need supporting at all?

[The Large One]

grew some a couple years ago
climbed them up a wigwam of canes just like a runner bean

[alex-adam]

They are a type of climbing bean like climbing French beans, so will need similar support. - Did you buy a named variety of seed? most widely available is 'Lingua di fuoco'. The beans are pale green with red splotches and can be eaten fresh, as runners or French beans, or left to mature and used dried.

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[jacob]

I've got two types of borlotti -- some dwarf (just stick 'em in), some climber (build a wigwam).

[Normans Mum]

I don't know what they are called, unfortunately. Looking at the size of them I think they might be a dwarf type. thanks for your help ! : )

[zazen999]

I don't know what they are called, unfortunately. Looking at the size of them I think they might be a dwarf type. thanks for your help ! : )

They all start out small!

[Two_Sheds]

Plant them out anyway, if they turn out to be climbers, pop some canes next to them

[Two_Sheds]

They are a type of climbing bean like climbing French beans

They are French beans, aka pole/climbing/green/snap etc etc

All are varieties of the "common bean", phaseolus vulgaris

[kathyd]

I've planted both this year for the first time - some climbing, and some 'nain' which is 'dwarf' apparently. So as said above, the climbers have a cane each and the littlies will get sticks probably. I'm so looking forward to watching them grow, and eating them later - I get so excited every time a new 'something' pops its head out of the pot or the ground! Lol .

[Normans Mum]

thanks for your help, guys. Zazen, I don't know an awful lot about growing (yet) but I do know that they ARE dwarf, despite being small.

[binley100]

I grow dwarf borlotti's and I find they still need some support. I use sticks at the end of the row and then twist string in and out of them ..

[zazen999]

thanks for your help, guys. Zazen, I don't know an awful lot about growing (yet) but I do know that they ARE dwarf, despite being small.

You said you think they might be dwarf, by the size of them. If you'd said 'they are dwarf' then you'd have got a different answer.