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Title: Swap climbing borlotto for dwarf? Or liquorice?
Post by: gray1720 on January 01, 2014, 19:33:45
I've just discovered that I've ordered climbing borlotto beans, which I already have a stupid number of packets of, rather than the dwarf ones I meant to. 

Does anyone have a packet of dwarf ones (or similar dwarf beans) they'd be prepared to swap for them? Or (inspired by rummaging round other threads) some liquorice?

Many thanks,

Adrian
Title: Re: Swap climbing borlotto for dwarf? Or liquorice?
Post by: peanuts on January 02, 2014, 07:53:34
Funnily enough, I grew dwarf borlotti last year for the first time.  i've grown climbing ones for several years with great success.  a local  gardener gave me some dwarf seed, so I tried them.  But I wouldn't do them again. I already grow a couple of good rows of haricot white beans for drying.  Harvesting them means a lot of bending down or kneeling (something I can no longer do easily after a half knee replacement a couple of years ago).  So having to harvest more ground-level beans was unwelcome.  They also took up more ground space, and tended to be dirtier.  They were also smaller beans inside, although that might just have been that seed I was given.  So back to the climbing ones for me!
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