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Allotment Stuff => Swap Shop => Topic started by: gray1720 on January 01, 2014, 19:33:45
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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
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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!