2022- Beans List

I'm so green with envy at you lot with your drying beans - I can't store anything because of a bean beetle; females lay eggs in the flowers and the grubs eat the beans, adults emerging from the dried bean, usually into the storage jar! Even the local Tarbais beans are effected! Yuk

I find broad beans are attacked in a similar way here. In the past I've found little black beetles in jars looking out though the french beans I grow are not affected. I tend to grow them every other year and as none are grown nearby ususally (I've occasionally seen a field of fava beans but not too nearby).

The soisson beans I grow look very much like Tarbais beans. Don't know how similar they are.