BeansUpdated: October 28th, 2024
Created: September 19th, 2015There are four crops to beans.
- Broad beans for their pods
- Runner and other beans pods before the beans form to any significant degree
- Podded beans from 2 above, before they mature and begin to dry on the 'vine'
- Dried beans from all types
Year: 2025
Year: 2024
- Berlotti:
- Broad Beans
- Butter Beans ✘
- Cobra
- Elmoro
- Red Kidney Beans
- Runner Beans
- Trail of Tears
- . . . Areas Planted . . .
- New
- Dried Beans
General Info: Apart from broad beans, which are very standard I have developed some unique crosses and varieties of other common types, Runner Beans, Borlotti, French beans (Cobra), Dwarf French beans and Red Kidney Beans. Runner Beans I have over the years bought a few varieties, most have red flowers and there was one that had a red top and white lower lip. One type was called Enorma and had white seeds.The more common varieties had either a purple or white background with varying amount of darker patches that ranged from speckles to large dark areas, black over the purple and brown over white. This year I have a totally black seeded variety, although I hadn't noticed any dark pods. 2021 ~ Page 3 Here are the same varieties before they dry. The largest the purple ones top-right are some 3cm x 1.5cm these are the ones that turn black, or maybe that should be so dark purple.