Bean Varieties

Bean grow list for 2021:

CFB for pods:

• Blue Lake
  

CFB for beans:

• Tresnjevac
  
• Cherokee
  
• Ryders
  

DFB for pods:

• Ferrari
  
• Tendergreen
  

DFB for beans:

• Canadian Wonder
  

Runners for beans:

• Enorma
  

Broad beans: some self saved, some Jubilee Hyser, some sutton.

Bean Grow List 2021 (so far)

DFB
Marconi (growing in GH now)
Sonesta
Traviata
Purple King

CFB
Hunter
Abundance
Scarlet's Mystery beans

Broad Bean
SuperAquadulce (in flower in garden)
Wizard (just a couple).

There will be more...............

My grow list

runner beans scarlet emperor
DFB sonesta
DFB kingshorn wax
CFB tresncjavec
CFB meuch
CFB Cherokee trail of tears
CFB cosse violette or Kew blue.

Dwarf French Beans - Sonesta, Velour
Climbing French Beans - Sunshine, Cobra

My bean (it feels wrong calling them French beans!) list this year is -
For eating fresh or freezing
Dwarf - roquencourt (yellow) & slenderette (green)
Climbing - cosse violette, yard long
For drying pea bean.

I cannot grow runners reliably as they hate it hot and dry and I've given up growing beans for drying as they all get infested with bean beetle, even with the famous local Tarbais haricot I end up with a jar of beetles 

Meuch - Climbing French Bean - for eating Fresh or shelled.


This is not as tall as  Weilander but also has around 6 or so beans to a pod, with slightly shorter pods. I've found very little info on this one but I've grown it a few time as it gives plenty of beans and usually dries well

Pretty green pods heavily mottled with dark purple almost black markings and fatter than the weilander as these beans are rounder? Weilander has a slimmer flatter bean with the more usual kidney bean shape.

Scarlet, do you find a lot of variation in the colour of these beans? I grew the 11 or so beans from your mystery pack from a couple years back, and I ended up with five or six pods of almost entirely black beans with only specks of white (among the many, many normal pods of course). Just curious!

Meuch - Climbing French Bean - for eating Fresh or shelled.


This is not as tall as  Weilander but also has around 6 or so beans to a pod, with slightly shorter pods. I've found very little info on this one but I've grown it a few time as it gives plenty of beans and usually dries well

Pretty green pods heavily mottled with dark purple almost black markings and fatter than the weilander as these beans are rounder? Weilander has a slimmer flatter bean with the more usual kidney bean shape.

Scarlet, do you find a lot of variation in the colour of these beans? I grew the 11 or so beans from your mystery pack from a couple years back, and I ended up with five or six pods of almost entirely black beans with only specks of white (among the many, many normal pods of course). Just curious!

Occasionally the bean seed colours are inverted? But when grown they will revert to the original - Ithink thats quite common. 
If you have a different colourway - something may have crossed? Or a a bean from last year may have germinated.... I would grow it again to see what happens.

My intention is to stick with varietie that have done well for me in the past.

Broad Bean 'The Sutton' for beans

French bean 'Tendergreen' for pods

Climbing bean 'Gigantes' for beans

I've planted lots of different beans this year both DFB and CFB.

One of the new ones for me was a DFB Atlanta, it has unusual flat pots looking a bit like a small runner bean. So far it's stringless and cropping well, whereas others sown at the same time aren't yet mature enough to pick. Atlanta are really flavourful and easy to prepare. I've yet to see if they freeze well. I'll definitely grow again next year.

^^^ I like flat podded beans - they don't seem to be as squeaky as round ones.
PS. Hope you're going to save some seeds.