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Black runner beans
"Bigal" wrote in message ... 'Ophelia[_8_ Wrote: ;1009309']"David Rance" lid wrote in message ...- On Thu, 6 Nov 2014 15:11:17 Bigal wrote: - A good crop of runner beans thanks to a 5 year old bed of biochar. (sorry, I just had to put that in.) So much so that I got fed up with eating them, freezing them and picking them. I tell my neighbour to help herself, but she is a bit loathed to do so. So I just let them grow, thinking to shell them later to use the beans some other way. I grew White Lady from saved seed, and a few weeks ago saved some more. No black ones. During the shelling I found one that contained jet black beans. In all my years of gardening I have never come across a black bean before, and I don't ever recall my father doing so.. (Taking account of the fact that the beans are eaten green).. By the time I had finished shelling (between jobs) I had found a total of eighty. Two of the pods were still joined on the flower stalk, which makes me think that it was a single plant that produced them. Comments please, and I am sure that it wasn't the black leaking out of the biochar.- I have had some black runner bean seeds now for over ten years. They originally grew from the usual two-coloured ones but I thought that black was unusual so I selected them and now always grow them. Occasionally they revert to the normal two-coloured seed but mostly they are all black. And a pod of two-coloured seeds would come from the same plant that produces the black ones. I've no idea what variety they are.- Do they taste different and do they keep their colour when cooked? -- 'Help for Heroes' (http://www.helpforheroes.org.uk/shop/) If they grow true next year I should have enough to be able to do a tasting and a cooked colour check. As I only intend growing the black ones next year , I will have to hang on to some of the white beans from this year for taste comparison. It will be interesting to find out I look forward to your report, thanks -- http://www.helpforheroes.org.uk/shop/ |
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