Bean tastings 2013

[Jayb]

I thought it might be fun to start a growing/tasting thread for beans? I thought I'd kick it off with these-

Norberg's/Wander Large Purple Kidney bean, a dry bush bean although I found it was a good tasting green bean when young before turning stringy. Lovely large dark red kidney beans with good flavour very similar in taste and texture to Canadian Wonder, but twice the size of them. Will grow this again

Red Swan, dwarf French bean. A lovely green bean, well pale red pods, no strings, very tasty and productive, the pods look very pretty. Will grow this again

Monstrance Climbing French bean, what a delight this is. A really lovely tasty green bean, delish eaten young and fab at the very lumpy stage, no strings at all, Yum. They also make a great shelly bean lovely texture and I guess although I've not tried yet, a good tasting dried bean. I like this one a lot 

Suess Becker Dwarf French bean I think best for dried. They are tasty when eaten young as green beans, otherwise they get stringy. Taste great as a shelly bean and dried, nice to pod too. Good crop and trouble free. Looks a good contender for baked beans!

Trofero a green filet bush bean. Long pods with small white seeds, produced a terrific crop of beans, very tasty and tender pods- another new favourite. Slow to ripen for seed saving

[Jayb]