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Old 25-09-2003, 09:30 AM
Nick Maclaren
 
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Default Climbing French Beans - making a come back


In article ,
"WasTa" writes:
| My CFB's cropped prolifically late July to 1st week of August then stopped
| abruptly (compared to the past two autumns when they cropped to early
| November) - due to the drought. However, with some watering and recent
| rains, they have now started again. So always worth hanging on to.

I am planning to make a larger climbing frame and do more of them
next year; this is not the first year they have done a lot better
than the dwarf varieties for me. In particular, most of the latter
seem to be bred for cropping once, as you also observe.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.