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As I had not many plants I let all pods to full maturity, and now I will try a bit o each in a dish, still thinking on how to cook them.
I want to prevent parasites growth, so I will freeze a few seeds for about 24h for next season.
How are yours @sabinehiller @echopapa ?
Currently eaten about 1.2kg of the climbing beans, but l will let ripen enough pods for next year of all sorts. Next week we will check how many beans the non climbing beans have produced. A lot of pods are still rather small and the INCBN_00000 produced only a handful pods per plant.
My bean scaffold is about 2.5m high, but that's not enough for the climbing beans. There are horizontal rods, but usually they dont like to use them and try to climb further, so this then leads to tendrils that wrap around each other.
All bean plants have pods, the French type and the reference type from the second sowing have only few pods - below 10 per plant. The leaves of the reference bean of the second batch are already withered and the pods are rather dry.
The croatian and the german runner beans are growing fine and are still flowering. Until now I have harvested three times a bunch of both bean types, every time about 400g to 500g. That's ok for only 3 or 4 plants. And there are still a lot of pods growing. The south american variety was quite similar to beans during my childhood. A lot of strings at the pods to remove before cooking. But taste was ok.
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The german and croatian beans have strings, but very soft after cooking, no need to pull them out. Very few preparation before needed. So I will surely put away some seeds for next year
BTW the Meccearly INCBN_00000 is a Borlotti type of bean (also named cranberry bean). In Italy typically only the dried beans are used without the pods. If the pods are young, you can eat them, but haven't tried it yet. Mature pods are stable, but not very tasty I think.
drupas
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Sabine Hiller