General information and discussion about cultivating beans, peas, peanuts, clover and vetch.
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If you are looking for something different - try Red Swan - first red I'm aware of ...
don't recall the flavour, but was a beauty in the garden http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-a_G0-USW4y...0/DSC07303.JPG http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-p32aDN5l4C...0/DSC07342.JPG
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Ahhh. I REALLY wish there's a like button on this forum so I can LIKE all your posts and suggestions.
Thanks PNW_D, I'm really excited to grow the Petit Marseillais, etc from you. |
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Romano has small, blocky round, tan seeds. Roma and Roma II have small to medium sized white seeds. |
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There are different types. https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=...J2dbq8b73z0Ylw |
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"Type" is different from "variety". It's agreed that romano and roma as types both mean a flat podded bean. When it gets to variety, it's a whole new ballgame.
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And for something with a bit more shock... www.goldenpreservationfarm.com/product/flamingo-bean/ ...shocking pink will do it. (the small picture on the right, of the three) As this bean is my own selection, I do have seed. ![]() |
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A few weeks ago I came across a small jar of "blocky round, tan seeds" I (ahem) acquired from dad's bean plants two years ago when babysitting his garden. He's been growing this one (and only) bean for so long that he couldn't remember if they were Roma or Romano. Thanks for providing the answer! |
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All I am trying to do is help and give a little bit of the history of these beans and what they are called in different areas. I have a roman bean and what is called a white cargagmanto bean that looks just like and cooks just like a cranberry bean. The white one isn't white it is a reddish color with strips. Like this. ![]() ![]() cranberry beans I have seen. ![]() Red cargamanto bean. ![]() |
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Variety would be the one specific bean out of many in its type. Up here, horticultural type is what you down there would call romano, roman, or roma type. Within horticultal and/or roman types there are many, many varieties. I've seen a few Vermont Cranberry varieties, out of even more Cranberry varieties, out of even more cranberry types.
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I have grown these Vermont Cranberry beans, and have sent a few to the swap
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![]() For me I have had to do what I have to do to get the beans I want. That is to go to an international market and learn what the people in South America call them as this is where they originated. My neighbor is from Chile and knows well what I am talking about when I call them what he calls them. ![]() My intent was to inform the original poster that these beans were all the same type so they wouldn't be duplicating a bean more or less. It would be like growing several different varieties of pinto beans and who the devil wants to do that. I have a fondness for the flat type so called Italian beans regardless of what they are called or where they come from. Worth |
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But they really aren't the same. Her list with Romano pole, Roma II, they are vastly different to the typical cranberry/roman dry bean.
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I was just curious as to why they said to avoid Contender, as they have always done well for me. Unless you had heavy rains about the time they were flowering and setting beans, then they didn't do as well, but that may be the case with any. |
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Here's the thread where it was discussed -- http://www.tomatoville.com/showthread.php?t=27316 |
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