Thread: Sowing broad beans
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Old 21-01-2008, 10:30 PM posted to uk.rec.gardening
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Default Sowing broad beans

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(Peter Robinson) writes:
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| Something this thread has cleared up that I was wondering about before -
| Suttons have big warnings about not eating French/dwarf beans raw, but
| nothing about runner beans. I always found that a bit odd if they're
| all so closely related. But I guess the same warnings should apply to
| runner beans too.

That's the way I would bet, too. I think that the reason is that
runner beans are relatively rarely eaten as seeds, which is when the
issue arises.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.
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