General information and discussion about cultivating beans, peas, peanuts, clover and vetch.
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Riding The Crazy Train Again
Join Date: Dec 2011
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I have never planted green beans so as you can imagine I'm excited to have bought a pack of Provider Snap Bush Beans today.
They're organic, from Seeds of Change. I have to grow them in a pot and I hope I get some beans. Anyone grow these and did/do you use a container? |
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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Mar 2011
Location: SoCal Inland
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I have a bunch of these growing in various pots right now. Have never grown beans either.
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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Feb 2012
Location: Maryland's Eastern Shore
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I grow quite a few bush beans. I like to splip early maturing varieties in wherever I find a time slot. I've not grown Provider and I have not grown in containers but it looks like it would be a good choice. I find the earlier maturing varieties a little more compact as long as they don't get too much nitrogen. Best advice I can give is to give them at least half a day of good light and not handle them when they are wet.
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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Jan 2010
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After trialing dozens of bush beans over the years, Provider is our overall favorite for earliness, cold tolerance, disease-resistance, taste and yield. I've grown them both in the ground and in raised beds but not in pots. They also are not nearly as tall as many other varieties so I'd think they would do well for you in containers. Even though I've been converted to pole beans, I still sow some Provider seed under glass or plastic for an early crop of yummy beans.
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Riding The Crazy Train Again
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Sounds encouraging ! If I get even a few beans I'd be thrilled.
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Join Date: Nov 2011
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I'm a pole bean grower who is trying bush beans for the first time this year. I can't remember what variety I bought seeds for, but if they don't do well, I'll really have to give Contender a try next year.
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I can't believe I went and checked the seeds today, looking for sprouting, when I only planted them yesterday !
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Join Date: Feb 2012
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I've been getting very good yields from Tema (especially early season) and fair from Derby. Both get a bit longer vines than I would like and neither seem to handle the heat especially well for me. I grew up with Top Crop in MO in heavy soils where they were great in the heat but I never gotten a decent crop from them here on the eastern-shore of MD with our sandy soils. I might try them again now that I am in raised beds with a better soil mix.
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Contender is the earliest snap I've ever trialed. It is also the least liked for flavor, of the hundreds of varieties of bush, half-runner, and pole beans that I've tasted. It has a strong "grassy" taste when harvested from my garden.
Provider takes longer to mature, but the flavor is good. And, like tomatoes, waiting a bit longer brings the best flavored varieties, which are mostly p ![]() Tormato |
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Today I was at the local hardware store for some window screen. While waiting for the clerk to finish with another customer so that I could check out I passed the time looking through their seasonal seed rack. I usually don't pay too much attention to them because they usually just hold the same varieties that they have for the last thirty + years. To my surprise there was an 8 oz package of Provider for only $2.75!
![]() I figured I was waiting until next year to try Provider as I had already placed my seed orders for this year and didn't want to pay shipping for just one item. I'm glad the clerk was busy. ![]()
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I'm near the MA/CT border, and Tom (TJG911, here at Tomatoville) is in CT. We both agree that Contender is the worst tasting bean that both of us have ever tried. It may be a southern New England thing. ![]() If you're ever looking for small samples to trial, of many different varieties, send me a PM. Gary |
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Join Date: Mar 2011
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I have some Jade I am going to plant next which has been around a while and seems to get mostly good reviews. Right now I am going outside to move all my potted Provider plants because we are having horrilble wind, steady at about 25 mph now with gusts at 40.
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