Dwarf beans

[bethixboop]

Hi all

Can any one tell me if these are ready or if they need to fatten up a bit more



Thanks


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[Bal]

They look ready to me. Any fatter and the will be tough and stingy.

[bethixboop]

Thank you

32 yummy beans picked for tomos dinner



And a cucumber for lunch


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[sequoia]

I`ve just read your palm and it says-----------------nice nails.

[ButternutSquash]

I wish the packet would tell you. I've bought a range of french beans, some thin, some fat. So how are we supposed to know what knind the seeds are for? My Johnson's seeds ones look just like your, and they tasted nice.

[Thelma Sanders]

I wish the packet would tell you. I've bought a range of french beans, some thin, some fat. So how are we supposed to know what knind the seeds are for?

Can't you tell from pictures on the packet, or on the website?

[BertieFox]

Usually French beans are picked incredibly small and thin especially here in France where they seem to think that is the best for flavour. Personally I find them better tasting and eating if they are slightly larger, before they get stringy.

The most important advice of all is to keep the plants picked over completely, NEVER leaving a single bean to go old and stringy. That way you will keep them in production for much, much longer. Leave just a single bean to swell and start producing seeds, and the whole bean plant will give up as it thinks it has done its job.

In hot weather this can mean picking beans at least every other day as they grow very quickly.

[ButternutSquash]

Can't you tell from pictures on the packet, or on the website?

They are not to scale, so no.

[Thelma Sanders]

do they not show leaves, as well - so you get a comparative size? Shame if not