How Are Your Beans Going?

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    Its my first year of growing beans and both the Polestar & Enorma are very stringy :(
    Hope its down to the hot weather as its started to put me off growing them again
    as they don't taste very nice.
     
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    Are you picking them young / small?
     
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    Maybe not, mine were picked at about 10 inches long, like the ones shown in Shiney's pictures.
     
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    10" should be OK, even in extremely hot weather, if they were getting plenty of water. Most people don't water their beans sufficiently or correctly. Were the pods smooth and not lumpy, or had the skins gone shiny?

    None of my beans were stringy and they are all Polestar.
     
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    Sorry, not near enough :)
     
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    23lbs :)
     
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    Still not close enough :snork:
     
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    Does it hurt ?:whistle:
     
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      Runner Beans, You Must pick them very young, I inspect them daily, think not big enough...then pick them at once Like most things It is quality Not quantity you need. My brother in law used to give me lots but he never picked them young enough so they went onto compost heap nothing worse than stringy beans
       
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        I try to pick beans every day and never go longer than two days. They will last a long time (possibly up to a week) in the fridge if put in a plastic bag. So it's best to pick each day and keep them until you have enough for a meal.
         
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          As Rosie said there is nothing worse than a stringy bean . So this year I grew dwarf French bean Slenderette . I wasn't quite prepared to how dwarf they were ! Only just tall enough to grow a bean , they are a little bigger now. The beans are lovely 4" long , pencil thin and very tasty - just how I like them :dbgrtmb:
           
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          Answer: 34lb 2oz :blue thumb: :)
           
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            This autumn I'm going to build another ShineyFrame to take French Beans. I'll grow Monte Christo (assuming they're on the market for next season) as the seven plants are now producing 12lb per week. They'll crop even heavier on a ShineyFrame :blue thumb:. I'll also grow these yellow beans as they're quite tasty - although they're not as prolific.

            I don't know what they're called as the seven seeds were given to us to try out.

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            The beans on the ShineyFrame are doing well and the third, late, sowing are coming along OK.
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