curly beans

[sweet-pea]

Some of my climbing french beans are ending up curly rather than straight, is this normal or is there a reason why they are doing this?

[sweet-pea]

[Diana]

Normal (I hope!  ;))

Some of the one's I just picked looked more like pig's tails than beans!

[sweet-pea]

that's good too know :-)  I did wonder whether it might be due to a pest of some sort.

[Sprout]

I raised the same sort of question earlier in the year. My early beans were, for the most part, curlyish but latter crops seemed to straighten out!

[Robert_Brenchley]

Curly beans often seem to be the ones in which only a few of the beans develop, which is down to bad pollination.