Topic: French dwarf bean question

[Duke Ellington]

Do dwarf french beans need support. I have one stem with a couple of leaves at the moment~they have been in the ground for a week and were started indoors! If they do what would you reccommend as a means of supporting them.

Duke

[betula]

My packet says support with twigs on windy sites :)

[valmarg]

Have given up on growing dwarf french beans.  They tend to be very short and curly.  Much prefer climbing french beans.

valmarg

[saddad]

Climbers for me all the way, but cheap pea sticks for support of Dwarves..  ???

[Barnowl]

Dwarf tend to produce sooner than climbers - Ferrari are particularly quick and give nice string beans. Trying Purple Teepee -the beans are meant to grow above the plant thus avoiding the 'trailing on the ground' problem.

[Rhubarb Thrasher]

as Barnowl says they tend to be quicker. I sow for an early crop and a very late crop. The ones i've got - Opera - don't need support.

[Deb P]

I plant quite close and find they support themselves....

[Pumper]

There was a thread about this earlier... You need to earth them up in the same way as spuds.

[loopyloulou]

ive earthed mine up as for spuds but they coudlnt compete against the winds, so got some sticks off a handy nearby tree (on the floor, im a good girl) and proped them up on those, theyre flowering now so fingers crossed :) bibs n braces...