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Post by daylilydude on Sept 11, 2011 15:11:03 GMT -5
Gonna try bush beans next year and was looking for some really productive ones, any suggestions?
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Post by nofeargardener on Sept 11, 2011 17:41:31 GMT -5
plain ole organic "Kitchen King" have always done very well for us. Big beans, and plenty. Nice for snapping and canning. Not the most flavorful I've had, but definitely a good producer.
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Post by pepperhead212 on Sept 11, 2011 18:50:00 GMT -5
Careful with bush beans. Many, of not most, are bred to produce all at once, for machine harvest. Probably why flavor is not as good in most of them as in pole beans. This would be good if you are canning, but not for picking as you want them, over a long period of time.
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Post by littleminnie on Sept 11, 2011 20:37:11 GMT -5
Definitely recommend Provider. It germinates in cool soil which meant early May this year and late April last year. It keeps producing as long as you pick and even when you leave some dry for seed it keeps making more beans! They are straight and what people like. They do not taste as good raw as my fav Rattlesnake. I eat many of those as I am picking. Rattlesnake is a pole bean.
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Post by daylilydude on Sept 12, 2011 6:58:39 GMT -5
Thanks for the suggestions y'all, keep them comming, thanks peppereater, that is the main reason for us wanting to grow bush beans.
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Post by stratcat on Sept 12, 2011 9:03:33 GMT -5
My friend grows good old Blue Lake bush beans in his barnyard garden. They have flavor and quantity for putting up.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 12, 2011 10:09:49 GMT -5
I've grown Kentucky Wonder and Contender. I like Contender better-thinner bean, VERY prolific-quick harvest. As long as you pick, they'll produce.
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Post by izzy on Sept 12, 2011 21:38:33 GMT -5
Blue Lake and Romano are my favs, but BL produces poorly for me in our spring heat here in the south. I'm trying out the pole BL for fall this year to see if they will keep going longer. This year Anasazi (sp?) did very well for me despite heat and drought. Good producer when kept picked and nice tender green bean. I loved adding a few shellies in with them. For sheer volume, white half-runner will keep you busy picking; but pick small or they can have strings. Not as sweet as some of the others.
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Post by paulf on Sept 12, 2011 21:50:42 GMT -5
Here in the upper mid-west Blue Lake Bush generally produces early and often until the late summer heat and rust takes its toll. We have tried several other varieties but always go back to the proven winner. Now if the heat in the south is an issue listen to those who live in the south.
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Post by izzy on Sept 12, 2011 22:31:50 GMT -5
I love those Blue Lakes - they are worth it even if they don't produce by the bushel. I've always grown them as a bush bean, but this year found some pole seeds. I'm hoping that will fix the problem; along with growing them in the fall. We have plenty of time to get a good crop in before it becomes cold here. Just planted them last week.
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Post by grunt on Sept 14, 2011 10:42:32 GMT -5
I like Fin de Bagnols = long slender crisp beans = I harvested 6 times before leaving them to go to seed.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 16, 2011 22:08:01 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Dec 24, 2011 3:33:50 GMT -5
I have grown bush Blue Lake for years they keep going and going for me have to pick every other day. I live in a hot climate they do not stop until well into the 100 degree streak of summer.
I like the taste we cook em with a lil bacon in the pan first to get the grease to render then the beans and water cook as long as you like. What I like is no strings in the pods.
Not sure why people say all bush beans grow at one time as mine flower daily and keep producing new beans all the time.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 24, 2011 3:38:31 GMT -5
Forgot to mention my Brother in law hated green beans. I cooked up a batch of Blue Lakes brought em over he is now growing them and loves green beans.
When I lived in Tennessee my neighbor saw me growing green beans said he did not like them. I gave his wife a bag of Blue Lakes she cooked em up like I did he was now a green bean eater.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 24, 2011 10:30:00 GMT -5
We grow Jade, a bush variety, Gita, a yard long, Kwintus a pole variety, and am sowing some asian winged beans this year. We are adding Maxibel, a french fillet bean, and Fortis, another pole variety for 2012. Love growing beans, just don't bend over quite as well as I did ten years ago so pole beans might be our future!
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