Stringless runner beans
graham wells
picking stringless ones.Despite trying many cultivars I have yet to
find one that is totality stringless later in the season.
Climbing french beans stay stringless right to the last bean
picked,but their flavour lets them down.
Perhaps a mixture of beangenes or genebeans would be the answer.
Any obscure old fashioned ones or brand new ones which can be proven
to be nonstick,in your teeth, would be most welcome if anyone can
recommend their name or names.
Thanks just in case.
Alan Holmes
graham wells wrote in message
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>Now the runners are coming to an end has anybody managed to keep
>picking stringless ones.Despite trying many cultivars I have yet to
>find one that is totality stringless later in the season.
If you keep picking them whilst still young, the beans are all stringless.
>Climbing french beans stay stringless right to the last bean
>picked,but their flavour lets them down.
>Perhaps a mixture of beangenes or genebeans would be the answer.
>Any obscure old fashioned ones or brand new ones which can be proven
>to be nonstick,in your teeth, would be most welcome if anyone can
>recommend their name or names.
Alan
throw out the 'rubbish' to reply
graham wells
> graham wells wrote in message
> <2ab7f6bf.01101...@posting.google.com>...
> >Now the runners are coming to an end has anybody managed to keep
> >picking stringless ones.Despite trying many cultivars I have yet to
> >find one that is totality stringless later in the season.
>
> If you keep picking them whilst still young, the beans are all stringless.
>
>
>
> Thanks for your reply,but I beg to disagree.Unless by young you mean two to three inch ones.
At present if left to even six inches and nicely light green and no
signs on beans inside pods they are still not stringless.
Perhaps my soil or soils, as I have three different allotments, are
short of a factor that prevents the pod from forming fibres.
Roy Bailey
wells <wlls...@aol.com> writes
For many years I have grown a variety called Enorma. They are superb for
both yield and flavour, and as long as you pick them young (ideally no
more then 6 inches in length) they remain stringless.
--
Roy Bailey
West Berkshire.
Pam Moore
tough at the end of the season. It is a white flowered variety.
Cheers
Pam Moore
pam....@virgin.net
Bristol
Alan Holmes
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>> graham wells wrote in message
>> <2ab7f6bf.01101...@posting.google.com>...
>> >Now the runners are coming to an end has anybody managed to keep
>> >picking stringless ones.Despite trying many cultivars I have yet to
>> >find one that is totality stringless later in the season.
>> If you keep picking them whilst still young, the beans are all
stringless.
> Thanks for your reply,but I beg to disagree.Unless by young you mean two
to three inch ones.
>At present if left to even six inches and nicely light green and no
>signs on beans inside pods they are still not stringless.
I pick mine at about 8 inces lng, but obviously still young.
>Perhaps my soil or soils, as I have three different allotments, are
>short of a factor that prevents the pod from forming fibres.
I think it might well be the variety then, I've never had any trouble
with picking beans of the size I've said, they only get stringy if
left until the beans have swollen in the pod.