Vegetable Climbing French Bean Blue Lake

Description

Vegetable Climbing French Bean Blue Lake

Considered one of the gourmet varieties, these are a prolific producer defying the driest of summers, whilst remaining sugar sweet, `stringless’ and tender with medium length beans. Excellent and easy to deep freeze. Can be grown against a trellis, on poles or up netting and can be interplanted with peas or runner beans required little or no maintenance. White seeded variety. Height: 150cm (5′).

Cultivation Advice Vegetable Climbing French Bean Blue Lake

Time to harvest: 12-14 weeks
Germination time: 7-14 days
Planting Depth: 2 inch
Spacing, Row: 18 inches
Spacing, Seeds: 6-9 inches
Light: Sunny Location
Beans are hungry crops that require ample organic matter dug in prior to sowing.
Sow in pots undercover in April for an earlier harvest or directly outside when all danger of frost has passed.
Protect young plants from pests.
Loosely tie in young plants to supports.
Feed once in flower with a high-potash fertiliser to prolong cropping.
Harvest Jun-Oct