Climbing Bean Variety Trial 

Agreed

Yeah, I think I should do more of these.

​@@REDGardens idk if you know chillichump you could maybe do a collab or ask him for information on pepper varieties. (if you like to do peppers ofcourse) i could send you some seeds aswel if you like.

Yep completely agree.

Glad you appreciate my approach to these videos.

Cool. It is a method that works well for me in a lot of situations.

Yeah, it is a shame that the purple ocular does not keep through the cooking. i have found the same with purple sprouting broccoli.

They do, but it's darker green than the normal green bean :)

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I grow broad beans outside mostly, and do enjoy them.

Good point, it may be part of the issue.

Beans got delicate root system so yes there could be lots of problems with that, usually I got like 30% of transplant die during the process.

That has been my experience as well.

Yeah, it would have been even more work. But then I also grew 54 varieties of tomatoes, so apparently I am a glutton for punishment! I would like to try a few varieties of dwarf beans next year. Interesting what you say about the spuds.

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Wow thanks! And thanks for the suggestions.

@@REDGardens no.. thank you.. ALOT of my ‘useless’ knowledge I spout off to friends asking questions is in part from you! Your trials have inspired me to do the same.

Glad it was helpful!

I did as well! I love green beans, and climbing varieties are generally easier to pick than bush types.

It does!

Wow, that does sound like an ideal bean variety. I live in zone 5a and the soil here is often quite cool well into May.

Thai is something I’d like to do more of.

Thanks.

Wow, that is interesting. What part of the world have you seen that from?

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Wow, I’m glad I don’t have to deal with deer in the gardens!

i noticed that they don't get tough, which is something I didn't mention in the videos dn would have been another point for comparison.

@@REDGardens I forgot to thank you for all the hard work that goes into doing garden trials and posting results, afew hours of your time saves thousands of hours for your followers.

It is interesting to hear about your experience with the Blue Lake variety, and thanks for the recommendations, not sure if any of them are available here in Ireland, but I will keep an eye out for them. I haven't tried the yard long varieties yet, they sound so fascinating!

@@REDGardens I'm hoping they do well as in Michigan we do get some heat in the summer. The youtube lady asiangarden2table sells the seeds and has many videos on how to grow them so I'm hoping they do well. I'm sure you'd need to put them in your hoop house for heat. But she says that you really need to pinch the top growth once it hits the top of the trellis to encourage the long beans to set more fruit. And by an accident last year one small stretch of my climbing beans got topped by a branch that came down in a storm and those beans on that stretch actually made more pods than my other stretch of pole beans.(I have over 132 feet of trellises) so I am going to try to prune this year too. I love experimenting in the garden. My family and neighbors used to all say. Well, what is that? and oh boy, thats not going to work, and while occasionally I have fails or its too fussy to repeat many of the things I've tried actually work. This year its pruning the growing tips of the pole beans and long beans and I'm trying a new way(to me) of propagation with potatoes. I had a few potato vines that got broken last June. I rooted them like a cutting to see if I would get potatoes. It was late June but those 2 buckets actually had a few decent sized potatoes in them. So I've got a few potatoes sprouting now under lights and I'm going to make cuttings to grow from the start and compare them to the seed potato buckets. I have 4 big led lights that I start seeds under so I figured I'd give it a shot.

@@Emeraldwitch30 Interesting the yield by pinching the tip sounds interesting, as does growing potatoes from cuttings!

That is true!

I definitely would consider a shelling bean trial, and I'm thinking how I could fit it in next year.

Seed savers have a Siberian pole bean similar to the Borlotti that grows well here in Ireland.

@@ciaranosullivan7791 Interesting, might have to look that one up. I'm based in SW Scotland, so similar from the sounds of things. Wet and windy a lot of the time.

I also have good luck with broad bean. Do you eat the seeds fresh or as dried seeds?

@@REDGardens Mostly dried most now call them fava but when I was a kid it was broad beans. Guess we were broad minded back then.

Interesting. Yeah, I don't know if they would do well here.

It is a big difference, and defiantly made the trial worthwhile. I think some of the yield difference could have been uneven competition, I suspect a lot of it is simply the differences in the varieties.

@@REDGardens :O I honestly did not expect an answer from the Garden Master himself! Well I am sitting on very sandy soil and lately very dry summers and comparatively warm winters. I have to amend the soil quite a bit, which i sadly only really started in 2018, but since I do seem to have quite some spare time in 2021 I might very well try to replicate your experiment in a more continental climate, albeit all outside, since I will only get around to set up a greenhouse this year. Since I am not really on a self-reliance path, I am more after rarer varieties that are harder to get at the local markets, but comparisons in yield and efficiency do have merit too. Thanks again for your time and effort!

@@RamdomGuy1337 Haha, I try to respond to most comments! Have fun with your explorations and experimentation, and good to hear that you have decent local markets to rely on. If I didn't grow my own food they would only be the crappy vegetables available in the mass market shops!

Glad o hear you have had good success with Cobra. I do freeze a lot of beans, but don't have any experience with the different varieties. That would be another factor to test.

I’ll have to try them out next time.

@@REDGardens Happy to send you some seed.

I just harvested 3 pounds of these beans from 5 feet of row, all as good as the ones that I harvested on July 14th. I have lost count of the number of pickings since then. Not bad for the 19th of September. I had to compost some that had become over mature owing to my not being able to go outside for about a week, owing to a huge inundation of wood smoke from the benighted country to the south of us.

Thanks for the pointer to 'Lazy Housewife'.

I think I should try some dwarf beans next year, both inside the polytunnel and outside. Thanks for the recommendation of variety. I do grow Runner Beans outside, and usually get a good crop. I don't have any experience with varieties, but have had good success with 'Enorma'.

I also like the climbing beans, but I think next season I am going to try growing bush beans again.

That robin is often around when I am woking. A regular garden companion!

Yeah, I grew up NW of Toronto, and I always like to compare weather there to weather over there, as it is what I know, and also as a 'hello' to people in that area like yourself who are watching!

I grow a lot of those outside, and really enjoy them.

I dont know about Ireland but in E. Europe boiled whole Young pods are really populár:-) Boiled in sweet cream sauce, maybe little bit of dill, add hardboiled Egg, few potatoes, Fast and good summer dish:-)

@@oheebatch_algorytmu Sound really good. I''ll have to try that. Thanks.

I’m in the U.K. and I’d generally boil or steam them, or blanche them then fry in butter or oil with some herbs/spices, or maybe just salt and pepper. Generally eaten as a side dish. Jakob’ suggestion sounds delicious too.

@@peterdunlop7691 "fry in butter" -> Delicious. It's almost lunch time here and that description made me hungry. 😀

I tend to just boil them!

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different places ... different names

@@REDGardens I know, I meant my comment as a joke :) thank you so much for your wonderful content and videos!! Much respect to you sir.

@@TheBomb2012 all good!

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Cool. Why do you only save for 5 years?

Because they seem to "revert" to a not so good bean, more stringy and woody

Graham R Dyer Hmmm, that is interesting. I wonder why that would happen?

@@REDGardens I thought beans were quite susceptible to cross-pollination?

@@REDGardens I think its cross pollination as I grow about 4 different runner beans and three French beans.

Yeah. That is an aspect of the trial that I didn’t do very thoroughly at all. Perhaps next time.

I am not surprised that these seeds have lasted so long in the freezer. They seem to store so much longer there.

they heirloom?

Most of them they do, just need to plant them in June, in greenhouse you just got more time for harvest.

Thanks, hope your trial produces lots of great beans for you.

Ha, vine noodles. cool.

Good point. Taste is one option, but not sure how useful it is.

@@REDGardens love your scientific approach to the food garden. Thank you so much for your videos. Cheers J

They are so beautiful!

Cheers!

@@REDGardens Thanks! If you make the videos longer I might have time for a second glass. However you have to keep that to the weekends. Really enjoy your work, your climate is similar to the coastal climate of Jutland (Denmark). So much of your stuff I can use directly. Keep up the fine work!

I have heard good things about that variety.

I think so.

@@REDGardens thx

I don't know.

I have heard that the same variety is occasionally sold under a different name in different markets, so Fasold beans might be there but just with a different name.

Most Mediterranean country’s grow climbing beans because they tolerate the heat well runner beans prefer cooler conditions, do not let them dry out and they love rich soil don’t forget to pick them regularly and feed.

Some provide info about how too grow the beans in general, but generally not specific info for the variety.

Yeah, that is most likely used by nutrient deficiencies, and could definitely have affected the production. This deficiency could have been caused by lack of fertility in the soil, lack of water or it could be because the that variety couldn't compete as well with the courgettes for those soil resources.

That is a dish I need to try!