Looking for Bush Bean recommendations...

[joseph]

Jade is a great snap bean in my garden.

I also grow bush soup beans. I started harvesting them about a week ago:

[Alfredo]

That looks amazing joseph! Very nice variety of bush beans.

[halleone]

Originally Posted by Alfredo

Halleone you mentioned fertilizing the bush beans to get an extra harvest, something I'm not used to doing to my beans as i usually just stagger my seed sowing to always have some to pick. What ratio of NPK are you giving them then?

I just give them whatever I currently have around, which this year is either Tomato Tone or Garden Tone; I just scratch it in, water, and forget about them for a couple weeks, and then its time to go pick again. You are getting a nice list of beans....

[Alfredo]

Ah perfect, i have a 20lb bag of Garden-Tone already. They still sell Tomato-Tone Halleone? I haven't seen it the last 2 years here in NJ. Wa waa...

Can't wait to try all these bush bean varieties!

[Tormato]

Originally Posted by joseph

Jade is a great snap bean in my garden.

I also grow bush soup beans. I started harvesting them about a week ago:

Joseph,

Is the yellow/gold bean, with maroon streaks, Tiger's Eye? My Tiger's Eye grow as half runners, to about 3 1/2 feet.

Gary

[Tormato]

I'll second Fin de Bagnol, Provider, and Dragon Langerie
(aka Dragon's Tongue) as very good bush beans. A few others I like are Roma II and Maxi.

For beyond very good, it's going to a trellis and pole beans.

Gary

[joseph]

I haven't previously had a name for the yellow beans with maroon stripe. They sure look like "Tiger's Eye Bean". In my garden the plants are very short with no tendency towards runners at all. I'd say they are the shortest bean that I grow, maxing out at about a foot tall.

For what it's worth, just about all of my beans came to me without names, and so I call them names based on the phenotype: little white bean, great white bean, little red bean, big red bean, little black bean, big glossy black bean, tepary bean, big brown bean, yellow bean, pink bean, etc.

I do have more formal names for some of them: peruano, pinto, kidney, cranberry, rattlesnake, and now white tiger's eye, and yellow tiger's eye.

[spacetogrow]

I trialed several bush beans this year, and found that I liked the flavor of Tennessee Green Pod the best for snaps. Also, I got good productivity and decent flavor from Landreth Stringless and Bountiful.

For the third year in a row. I've appreciated Black Valentine, which can be planted out earlier than most beans.

[b54red]

Originally Posted by PaulF

It is strange that just because I have sworn never to grow a hybrid tomato, the only bush bean we grow is Blue Lake bush bean. In the past 40 years I have tried dozens of beans. Even grew out some SSE pole beans a few years ago. I keep going back to Blue Lake. Is this sacrilege?

No it is not sacrilege. Everyone should grow the veggies that they personally like the best and the ones that work best in their garden. I used to grow Blue Lake but once I tasted the French style filet beans I was hooked and it was just a matter of finding the ones that did well in my garden and that I liked best overall. I still keep trying varieties that are new to me when I can in hopes of finding one that I like better.

Bill

[bower]

I grew Pencil Pod Black Wax Bean last year and they were fantastic.
The other one was 'French Filet' and they were horrible - tiny, tough, and hairy to boot. Sort of like vegetable shrews! Thanks for the thread on good ones, I'm making notes...

[Labradors2]

Originally Posted by bower

I grew Pencil Pod Black Wax Bean last year and they were fantastic.
The other one was 'French Filet' and they were horrible - tiny, tough, and hairy to boot. Sort of like vegetable shrews! Thanks for the thread on good ones, I'm making notes...

Oh that's too funny . Thanks for the warning!

For someone who doesn't like the fuzziness of Garden Peach, I will definitely stay away from those French Filet shrews!!!!

Linda