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Posted by Raymondo Armidale, NSW (My Page) on Tue, Nov 15, 05 at 7:00
| I bought a packet of Borlotti beans which said 'bush'. Well, the plants are a month old and are doing a pretty good imitation of climbing beans. They're already 60cm tall and don't look as if they'll be stopping any time soon. They're planted on the northern edge of a garden bed so trellising them is not really on because it will shade the plants behind. What an annoying frustration! I'm hoping they'll give up the search for something to climb and sprawl along the ground. What do climbing beans do when they can't climb? |
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Borlotti are not really climbing beans, more like vining - up to 1m or so. So they should stop growing pretty soon and just twine amongst each other... At least, you don't have to pick the beans until they are at the shelly or dry stage, not regularly like green beans!
Rose-Marie |
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| Ray, fell for the same trick myself some years ago. Don't grow them any more as it is easier and cheaper to buy the beans dry (and the ground is not tied up until they dry out) |
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| Thanks for that info Rose-Marie. I can relax now. I grew them not so much for the dry bean but to try them fresh shelled, like a garden pea. |
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