Mamba Climbing French BeNs
Posted: Sat Jul 21, 2018 1:15 pm
As well as growing my favourite Cobra this year I'm experimenting with some Mamba variety which the Thompson & Morgan packet tells me produce double the yield of Cobra. Hmmm!
Has anybody ever grown them? The yield has been disappointing. They've only grown to half the height of Cobra (although the packet does say they are very suitable for container growing which ought to have given me a clue) but frustratingly they seem very reluctant to self twist round the canes and flop down to floor level immediately the weight of the beans pulls them down.
They seem to be halfway house betweenclimbing French beans and dwarf ones but I,m wondering if I,m condemning them simply because the hot weather my have impeded their normal growth (despite regular watering) and that in normal conditions they might usually grow to the height of Cobra?
Has anybody ever grown them? The yield has been disappointing. They've only grown to half the height of Cobra (although the packet does say they are very suitable for container growing which ought to have given me a clue) but frustratingly they seem very reluctant to self twist round the canes and flop down to floor level immediately the weight of the beans pulls them down.
They seem to be halfway house betweenclimbing French beans and dwarf ones but I,m wondering if I,m condemning them simply because the hot weather my have impeded their normal growth (despite regular watering) and that in normal conditions they might usually grow to the height of Cobra?