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Bush beans?
Posted: Thu Jun 05, 2008 7:40 pm
by Gracie
My neighbour has given me some bean seeds that she bought in Lidl. They are described on the packet as a "bush bean" From the picture they are very similar to a dwarf french bean but a little larger, but the instructions said to earth them up when they are around 18 inches high. Has any one else ever grown them or heard of them?
I'm not quite sure what to expect!
thanks Gracie.
Posted: Thu Jun 05, 2008 8:21 pm
by pump_king
It could be a Keyan type fine bean, I have grown bush beans before & the do crop well if picked regulary
Posted: Fri Jun 06, 2008 3:57 pm
by cevenol jardin
I thought a 'bush bean' was a dwarf French bean as differentiated from a climbing French Bean.
I always earth up the stems of dwarf French beans and sow in a double row so they self support at about 60-80cm high - the height of the dwarf French that i grow.
Posted: Fri Jun 06, 2008 6:55 pm
by Monika
The German for French beans or dwarf beans is "Buschbohne", bush bean in other words, so I would think they are a variety of French bean.