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# Growing/ planting french beans
# French bean recipes
French beans also known as Green beans or Runner beans are the unripe fruit of any kind of bean, including the yard-long bean or the winged bean. French beans have been bred for the fleshiness, flavour and sweetness.
French beans are found in two major groups, ‘bush beans’ and ‘pole beans’. Bush beans are short plants that grow to around two ft and produce their fruit in a relatively short period of time. Pole beans require supports, and grow to several feet high however they can take longer to produce fruit.There are a number of French bean varieties. Some of the most common French bean seeds include:
Blue lake French bean seeds - Medium-length with tender and stringless pods.
Borlotto firetounge French bean seeds – A dwarf French bean ideal for fresh use or as dried seeds.
Cobra French bean seeds – Big yielding plant with round, stringless pods.
Hunter French bean seeds - Flat, stringless pods. A very reliable crop.
Jersey French bean seeds - Reaches maturity early with a crisp sweet texture.
Limka French bean seeds - Delicious flat pods that can be grown indoors.
Masterpiece French bean seeds – An early maturing and high yielding variety of French bean.
Purple Queen French bean seeds – Incredibly flavoursome with stringless pods. Very attractive bean.
Safari French bean seeds – A dwarf French bean that produces straight and dark green stringless pods
Sultana French bean seeds – Produces a tasty, stringless bean. Grows like a runner bean.
Tendercrop French bean seeds - Long, straight, tasty pods on a neat, compact plant.
Valdor French bean seeds – Produce a golden-yellow pod with a great flavour.
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Growing French beans
1/ Prepare planting site by digging over and adding manure.
2/ Make a support for the French beans 60 cm’s apart, secure with twine.
3/ Sow a single French bean seed in a pot filled with compost, water well.
4/ Following germination of seeds plant French beans at the base of each cane.
When planting French beans always remember to refer to the instructions on the seed packets!
Click here on a video guide on how to grow French beans.
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French beans recipes
The following websites have great tips and advice on cooking with French beans.Let us know if you would like us to add your French bean recipe to the list below.
Some of our favourite French bean recipes include French bean and potatoe salad, French bean and duck Thai curry, tuna and French bean toastie.
BBC - Good food
Cookitsimply
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