In message , Amber Ormerod
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"Kay" wrote in message
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In article , Amber Ormerod
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I have some white flowered purple striped beans labled as dwarf french
(Tamila) but they seem to flat for french and when I opened them up they
just looked like they would grow to be broad beans. How do I tell the
difference and can I just pick non swelled pods and cook them as whole
pods?

Broad beans have fur inside the pods.

There are some very flat french beans.



To add to my confusion I was just in the spar and they had those sliced
frozen beans that I thought was french beans but they called green beans.
The roundish pods with small oval beans inside cut slanty. Maybe I don't
even know what a french bean is?

ell they wouldn't want to confuse customers by anything to technical....

These probably are some sort of French Bean - the same way the
Greengrocer call them 'Bobby Beans ' for some reason.

What are the leaves like on the plant - BB leaves are smaller than FB
leaves the stems are also much sturdier. More to the point what do they
taste like - can't really be confused.
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