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Non Stick Beans?
Posted: Wed Feb 20, 2013 2:40 pm
by Ken65
Back in the 50's when I was somewhat younger than I am now I seem to recollect my Mother, working on the land, picking runner beans from rows on the ground. Would they have been similar varieties to those we traditionally grow up sticks now?.
Ken
Re: Non Stick Beans?
Posted: Wed Feb 20, 2013 6:47 pm
by FelixLeiter
More than likely these were dwarf French beans. They are similar in many ways. There are dwarf runner bean varieties — Hestia is one that comes to mind — but I don't think they were around in the 50s.
Re: Non Stick Beans?
Posted: Wed Feb 20, 2013 7:16 pm
by Ken65
definately not dwarf beans, runner beans but very bent.
Ken
Re: Non Stick Beans?
Posted: Wed Feb 20, 2013 9:55 pm
by robo
i had a spell picking the same type when i was a kid on the farms around here, threepence a hamper was the going rate if i remember correctly, the hampers where taller than me, "the good old days"
Re: Non Stick Beans?
Posted: Wed Feb 20, 2013 10:06 pm
by sally wright
Dear Ken,
pickwick would have been the variety you would have grown I think.
Regards Sally Wright.
Re: Non Stick Beans?
Posted: Thu Feb 21, 2013 8:04 am
by Geoff
Description fits. Tried Pickwick once, so twisted they were almost useless but the slugs seemed to like them.
Re: Non Stick Beans?
Posted: Thu Feb 21, 2013 8:13 am
by Johnboy
The forerunner to Hestia was Hammond Dwarf Runner Bean which was certainly around in the 1940's. I remember growing them by mistake and wondering why they didn't climb the trellis provided above. In truth it was a cruel joke played upon me by my grandfather who gave me the seed!
The only thing I can say is that I had a very good prolific crop.
JB.