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Posted by Talalm (U14450765) on Friday, 2nd July 2010
i took a look at my french beans today and i saw they had white flowers near the bottom. in pictures and magazines i have seen that the flowers are red.
they are from the digin campaign so what color should they be??
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My dig-in frenchies have white flowers too, but coming along quite nicely. Maybe climbing varieties have red flowers like runners but it would be interesting to find out as it's my first time with beans.
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Blue lake have white flowers.
Red flowers are fairly common on runner beans but not so much on French beans.
I've grown climbing french beans previously which had yellow or purple flowers. The pods were also these colours.
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Thanks Saravisiae, are French beans pick and come again or just a single harvest? Never has ignorance been less blissful.
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Pick and pick and pick again. You'll need to go over them every few days and pick all that are big enough to eat. Do not leave them until they are as big as the ones in the supermarket. They go for maximum yield rather than maximum taste. That is the joy of growing your own.
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and the french beans are eaten whole so no kitchen prep needed as with the runner beans...
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I couldn't agree with you more BaraGwenith. I pick my runner beans when they are about 6" long and they are lovely. I used to hate runner beans because I had only been given the ones the the shops sell which are about a foot long and tough as old boots.
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