Hi all,
I ordered some short-ish Climbing French Beans to climb up my sweetcorn, but they were out of stock, so the suppliers sent some "Blauhilde" dark blue full-size Climbing FBs instead. Fair enough, no problem.
As they're now hardened off, and need to go outside - does anyone know how tall Blauhilde will get? Will they grow taller than my sweetcorn as I suspect? Should I just treat them like runner beans and give them a tall bean pole to climb up instead of the sweetcorn? Couldn't find anything useful about height on line.
Thanks,
GaGa.
Height of Climbing French Bean - Blauhilde
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Looks like it's definitely bean poles - this site say six to eight feet tall.
http://zipcodezoo.com/Plants/P/Phaseolu ... lde%60.asp
http://zipcodezoo.com/Plants/P/Phaseolu ... lde%60.asp
has anyone successfully got beans to climb sweetcorn in the uk?, ive allways found the beans are way ahead of the sweetcorn heightwise. it seems silly to plant more beans later on just so they can go up the corn .
I grew some blue climbing french beans several years ago and they needed full height bean sticks. Can't remember if they were 'Blauhilde'. They tasted fine but they cooked to a green colour so the blue pods thing was just a novelty.
Although they might be a pretty novelty in the veg garden, generally I can't see much point in these unusually coloured vegetables because, on cooking, they either return to the natural colour or go to some unappealing strange brown as with chard 'Bright Lights'. Exception of course are those where the coloured leaves are eaten raw and they are worthwhile.
John
Although they might be a pretty novelty in the veg garden, generally I can't see much point in these unusually coloured vegetables because, on cooking, they either return to the natural colour or go to some unappealing strange brown as with chard 'Bright Lights'. Exception of course are those where the coloured leaves are eaten raw and they are worthwhile.
John
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My Blauhilde climbing French Beans grew between 6 - 8 feet last summer. You will definitely need poles. And if we have a very hot summer, the beans, being self-fertile, will set without needing to be fertilised by bees so you won't have the problem, like runner beans, of getting lots of flowers with no beans to follow.