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Post by horsea on Apr 13, 2018 17:44:15 GMT -5
I ordered a pkg of Marvel of Venice beans, from a Canadian company, which the catalogue says is a pole bean, which is what I want.
However, on thumbing thru my Baker Creek giant catalogue, they claim that Marvel of Venice is a BUSH bean. Gah.
Does anyone know for sure? Annette?
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Post by pepperhead212 on Apr 13, 2018 18:12:19 GMT -5
Maybe there is a bush version of it? I have a packet (forget where from) that was a pole bean, when I grew it last year. I almost never grow bush beans - only a couple in Earthboxes, to see what they were like, but at least they were higher for harvest.
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Post by spike on Apr 13, 2018 18:15:29 GMT -5
Everything I can find about this bean says that it is a pole bean, well except Baker Creek. I am so totally NOT helpful at all.
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Post by horsea on Apr 13, 2018 18:41:28 GMT -5
Thanks for your input, boys. I suspect that someone at Baker Creek just made a typo, that's all. In any case, in a few months' time I will surely find out just what kind of bean I've got!
@pepperhead. I really enjoy growing pole beans, too. They are later, true; but you get so much more in a given amt of space and of course most of the varieties are big and flat. More "meaty". The bad part: I have to stand on a ladder to reach the higher up pods.
It seems that there is a wider variety where the bush types are concerned, though. I grew something called Woods Mtn Crazy Beans as well as 2 kinds of tiny white rice beans, which are so cute.
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Post by octave1 on Apr 13, 2018 19:03:47 GMT -5
horsea, Marvel of Venice is a pole bean. It's flat like the Romano type, but it's yellow. I grew it 2 seasons ago. It is the most productive bean imaginable, and it's also absolutely delicious.In my garden it takes up an enormous amount of space because it grows rampant.
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Post by pepperhead212 on Apr 13, 2018 19:04:49 GMT -5
horsea Years ago, when it didn't bother me to harvest bush beans, I still stopped growing them, as they were like determinate tomatoes - all at once, then nothing. Let's face it - these are things bred for commercial growing, and machine harvesting.
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Post by horsea on Apr 13, 2018 19:50:04 GMT -5
horsea Years ago, when it didn't bother me to harvest bush beans, I still stopped growing them, as they were like determinate tomatoes - all at once, then nothing. Let's face it - these are things bred for commercial growing, and machine harvesting. So all beans were originally climbers, and the bush beans a much recenter invention? Woods Mtn Crazy Bean seems to be the exception; she just keeps on going! I don't actually care to grow bush tomatoes; I much prefer the indeterminate ones.
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Post by spike on Apr 13, 2018 20:24:11 GMT -5
Thanks for your input, boys Hubby would be greatly distressed
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Post by horsea on Apr 13, 2018 22:33:20 GMT -5
Thanks for your input, boys Hubby would be greatly distressed LOL! I imagine he would!
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Post by Deleted on Apr 16, 2018 12:54:29 GMT -5
Spike, I suspect distressed would NOT be the word, LOL!!
Marvel Of Venice is a very good bean, productive and tasty or me here in Texas. I prefer pole beans myself, picking bush beans gets hard on the back as I age, so I often only grow a bush bean if it tastes fabulous to me. Jeminez is also very good, green and productive pole bean that likes to give a lot of beans.
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