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Mr_Yan
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Week long hiatus - call it a vacation and 1220 mile drive with dog and two kids to see their grandparents, I'm tired.
I have a handful of different beans growing
Fordhook 242 lima beans
Dragon tongue (ones I've selected and saved for a few seasons)
tenderbush green beans
Kentucky wonder pole beans
sugar and snap peas I've selected and saved for a few years (finished and pulled for the season)
The fordhook limas are supposed to be bush and everything I've read point to the dragon tongue beans are pole. Well these two are confused. The dragon tongues are the tightest growing thickest bush beans I've worked with while the fordhook 242 limas are grabbing anything they can and climbing to about 4 feet tall.
Do I just have beans with messed up genetics?
The dragon tongue beans taste great and have good yields. Large partially flat yellow pods with some to a lot of purple spots / blotches. I had bought these as a cheap pack from Farm and Fleet and everything else I bought at the time turned out weird relative to what it should have.
The last time I did the limas there was a major heat wave hitting us so the yields weren't great and I just mixed them in with the edamame (green soy beans) I was growing. The limas were from a Burpee brand packet.
I have a handful of different beans growing
Fordhook 242 lima beans
Dragon tongue (ones I've selected and saved for a few seasons)
tenderbush green beans
Kentucky wonder pole beans
sugar and snap peas I've selected and saved for a few years (finished and pulled for the season)
The fordhook limas are supposed to be bush and everything I've read point to the dragon tongue beans are pole. Well these two are confused. The dragon tongues are the tightest growing thickest bush beans I've worked with while the fordhook 242 limas are grabbing anything they can and climbing to about 4 feet tall.
Do I just have beans with messed up genetics?
The dragon tongue beans taste great and have good yields. Large partially flat yellow pods with some to a lot of purple spots / blotches. I had bought these as a cheap pack from Farm and Fleet and everything else I bought at the time turned out weird relative to what it should have.
The last time I did the limas there was a major heat wave hitting us so the yields weren't great and I just mixed them in with the edamame (green soy beans) I was growing. The limas were from a Burpee brand packet.
