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What are your veg garden plans for 2010?What will be new,old and left by wayside?
purple Italian pole beans
Quotepurple Italian pole beansWhat variety do you grow? Are they for eating as pods or for dried beans. I grew a heritage variety called Mrs Lewis's Purple podded this year and it was amazing. Ate piles of pods and then left some to run to seed and ended up with 400 beans. Only started with 10 beans, and ended up with only 8 plants.
"PURPLE TRIONFO VIOLETTO BEAN"
Quote"PURPLE TRIONFO VIOLETTO BEAN" Many thanks Grannieannie will give that one a try. Over here the beans need all the sun they can get. Grew Purple King dwarf and like them but find picking the climbers much more satisfying.
Runner beans are certainly perennials and if you keep them frost free they can be persuaded to come again in the spring. A few years ago winter was so mild here that bean plants in the garden did not die and came up again the next year. I suppose that French beans (Pole beans) are also perennial so perhaps they thought it was spring and time to get going again.I do a second sowing towards the end of June or early July so I am still eating them in September and October.