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Originally Posted by Lintama
This year, my French beans have been knobbly and heavily marked or some are just pale green. They don't have any substance to them either. When you press them between your fingers, they aren't solid. There have only been a few that have been 'normal'.
Can anybody suggest what the problem is.
Many thanks in advance.
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The knobbliness is through leaving them a bit late before picking - the beans inside are swelling. The marks look like pest damage, and you've also got small holes in the leaves which support that hypothesis.
I'm not sure what you mean by "aren't solid". If you mean they're flabby, that's because the plant has given up on that particular pod for some reason, and is leaving it to die.
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