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June 13, 2009

How To Grow French Beans

Filed under: Uncategorized, pea&beans — Tags: french bean, french beans, grow — TopVeg @ 12:08 pm

Farming Friends & TopVeg have collaborated to create a How To Grow French Beans card. Click on the image below to enlarge the picture of the card.

The card may be downloaded, printed off and pinned to the potting shed wall as a useful reference on how to grow French Beans. Please contact us if you would like us to send you a pdf of the card.

french-beans

We hope that children, as well as established vegetable gardeners, will find this useful, as they can grow French Beans in their section of the vegetable garden, and enjoy picking them.

We will send you a pdf of the French Bean Grow Card if you make a request in the comment section below.

Thank you Sara at Farming Friends for designing this How to Grow French Beans card.

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March 14, 2009

Bean Flowers

Filed under: pea&beans — Tags: broad bean, flower, french bean, runner bean — TopVeg @ 6:30 pm

Bean flowers are beautiful and so variable. These photos show french
bean, broad bean and scarlet runner bean flowers.

french-bean-flower

broad-bean-flowers

runner-bean-flowers

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July 18, 2007

A Constant Supply of Beans.

Filed under: pea&beans — Tags: broad bean, broad beans, french bean, runner bean — TopVeg @ 4:53 pm

The bean row has a succession of beans, starting with broad beans planted in November, followed by two later plantings of broad beans, ending with runner beans and french beans.

bean-row

The early broad beans are now over. The second planting of broad beans, Sutton, have suffered from Chocolate Spot.
They have not grown as tall as the first planting, but they have produced a reasonable amount of beans, and the pods have not been affected by the Chocolate Spot fungus.

chocolate-spot-on-beans

The final planting of broad beans, Bunyards Exhibition & Masterpiece Green Long Pod, are taller and less branching than the early variety. They look clean, with little disease. The pods
are developing well.

Bunyards-Exhibition-&-Maste

The runner beans and french beans are streaking up the supports at the far end of the row, spiralling anticlockwise tightly around the pole.

beans-climbing-poles

Now the first lot of broad beans is finished, they will be replaced with more runner beans. So this patch will be double cropped with beans, broad beans at the start of the season, and runner beans to finish the season.

broad-bean-stump

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