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Blue Lake, and Cobra grown before, both successful. Also grow Borlotti for clour - looks great, but don't really know how to use them, so have lots (shelled) in the freezer... Still, will grow more as they look great on the plot!

Cosse Violette are usually reliable and prolific, and seem to thrive at a slightly lower temperature than a lot of beans. Last year's flood finished them off before they established themselves, but it's the first failure I've had with them. Pea beans survived, and gave me lots of seed, so that's another I'll be growing again.

This was my first growing year, grew a few different varieties of climbing beans, favourite has got to be Cherokee Train of Tears, great crop but also I love their heritage story

Quote from: Mike J on December 21, 2009, 20:13:01
Blue Lake, and Cobra grown before, both successful. Also grow Borlotti for clour - looks great, but don't really know how to use them, so have lots (shelled) in the freezer... Still, will grow more as they look great on the plot!

There a good bean to use for winter stews and soups etc.... depending on how green they were they might need a while to cook though. If they were unpatterned then about 20 minutes or so, if they had clear markings then about an hour...

chrisc

Love Cosse violette, pea bean, borlotti, meraviglia de venise, Mother Stallard. Plus new one Polish purple stringless (got these at a Ryton seed swop) which I grew for seeds this year and find the mature bean is a really nice borlotti type and the green beans are stringless. Grw some Hendersons Black Valentines as well this year - not very prolific though.

Another vote for Blue Lake, and another one to be disappointed by Cherokee Trail of Tears.  :-\