All of the green beans appear to have germinated healthily, which is good. Still haven’t planted another row, however, nor have I gotten around to constructing a structure for them yet. Perhaps, since the Fasolds have proven themselves, I’ll try my luck with some other, older beans.
Digging through the box, it looks like we have some old packets of: Broad Windsors, Liana Yard-Longs, Scarlet Runners, French Bush, Yellow Bush, and Fortex Pole beans. The hell of it is that the reason none of these have been planted for a few years is that we just didn’t care for them. So, why bother replanting? Bush beans are much messier to tend, are subject to slugs, and the varieties I’ve tried are largely single-croppers requiring succession-planting. Runners didn’t much please my taste buds, and we’ve never had much luck with broad beans. Yard-longs just don’t seem to like our terroir, and underproduce to the point where it’s hardly worthwhile.
I’m thinking limas. Must find some pole limas.
