Borlotti bean advice please

[Dorothy rouse]

I have dwarf and climbing Borlotti's all growing well. Am intending to leave on the plant and allow them to dry and then continue to dry indoors, ready for use during the winter. Is it ok to leave them all on the plants or should I pick and use some? And is there any difference in the dwarf and the climbing variety? Will they both dry and store ok?

Thanks

[roitelet]

I've dried dwarf ones on the plant and they have kept fine, still got a few from last year. I don't think that there is any difference in the treatment of dwarf and climbing beans. You can also eat the beans fresh and I think as mange tout. I haven't tried them as I have loads of French beans.

[Dorothy rouse]

Yes I also have loads of French and Runners, the Borlotti's are nice used like French, so might still use some if I run out of the others!

[veggiechicken]

I've tried editing the title but can't do it. I'll ask another Mod who may have a magic wand

[Jay-ell]

You can pick some young as normal french beans, pick some fresh but with developed beans and shell them like haricot or leave them to dry on the plants.

AFAIK the difference between the climbing and dwarf beans (apart from height) is that the climbers mature and crop over a longer period than the dwarf (which develop and crop around the same time - although last year I only got 6 pods from my dwarfs so that wouldn't have been a long time even if they matured one at a time)

[Dorothy rouse]

I've tried editing the title but can't do it. I'll ask another Mod who may have a magic wand

It's changed now, thanks,clever people.

[veggiechicken]

The original title was very funny, Dotty. Sounded like some unmentionable female disease

[Alison]

Yes I also have loads of French and Runners, the Borlotti's are nice used like French, so might still use some if I run out of the others!

Borlotti beans are French beans although I tend to refer to my drying beans as Borlotti and the ones I eat fresh as French. Bit daft now I think about it

[Alison]

The original title was very funny, Dotty. Sounded like some unmentionable female disease

Trying to think what it could be and failing, why did I miss out?

[veggiechicken]

You wouldn't guess it in a month of Sundays, so I'll whisper it to you..................

Girl otitis

How Dotty's phone came up with that instead of Borlottis is a mystery

[Dorothy rouse]

The original title was very funny, Dotty. Sounded like some unmentionable female disease

Yes it was, but I can't remember what it was now! I might have got myself banned! For using inappropriate language!