flowerbug
Garden Master
it is coming up on spring and some people may wonder what are good beans to start
with.
so to get a bean thread going apart from the other bean thread i thought i would ask...
so far, my favorite beans that i would recommend for new people to try are:
Fresh eating:
- Top Notch Wax (bush)
Shellies:
- Fordhook Lima (bush)
Dry:
- Yellow Eye (also called Molasses Face) (semi runner)
Others notable to mention:
as a new fresh eating green bean this year i'm going to give the Purple Dove bush beans another try. they were very productive of pods, seeds last year and the plants were beautiful and the beans were early, really sweet and yum. so i want to repeat them to expand the seeds and to see what they do for a 2nd season. if they do well i'll be distributing them to people that want them. i haven't grown enough yet to cook any up from dry beans to see how they taste. that's on my ToDo list too if i ever get enough... if last season is anything to go by i may have no problem there... the only downside to these beans is that the Japanese Beetles loved 'em first and frequently all season. so they make a good trap crop for JBs too... heh...
the other bean we liked because we'd not had any other lima beans before to compare was the Red Lima bean on the fence. it was productive and we had a lot of shellies from them we liked and i mixed 'em in with the Fordhooks.
with.
so to get a bean thread going apart from the other bean thread i thought i would ask...
so far, my favorite beans that i would recommend for new people to try are:
Fresh eating:
- Top Notch Wax (bush)
Shellies:
- Fordhook Lima (bush)
Dry:
- Yellow Eye (also called Molasses Face) (semi runner)
Others notable to mention:
as a new fresh eating green bean this year i'm going to give the Purple Dove bush beans another try. they were very productive of pods, seeds last year and the plants were beautiful and the beans were early, really sweet and yum. so i want to repeat them to expand the seeds and to see what they do for a 2nd season. if they do well i'll be distributing them to people that want them. i haven't grown enough yet to cook any up from dry beans to see how they taste. that's on my ToDo list too if i ever get enough... if last season is anything to go by i may have no problem there... the only downside to these beans is that the Japanese Beetles loved 'em first and frequently all season. so they make a good trap crop for JBs too... heh...
the other bean we liked because we'd not had any other lima beans before to compare was the Red Lima bean on the fence. it was productive and we had a lot of shellies from them we liked and i mixed 'em in with the Fordhooks.