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Green Beans, also known as String Bean, Snap Bean in the northeastern and western United States, or ejotes in Mexico, are the unripe fruit of various cultivars of the common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris).. Green Bean cultivars have been selected especially for the fleshiness, flavor, or sweetness of their pods.Haricots verts, French for "Green Beans", also known as French Beans, French Green Beans, French filet beans, Fine beans (British English), is a variety of green bean that's longer, thinner, crisp, and tender. It is different from theharicot bean, which is a dry bean.
French Beans are not really French. Like runner beans, they are New World creatures, brought back by the Spanish conquistadores. In England, they were an instant hit. The 16th-century herbalist John Gerard ate them "boiled together before they be ripe, and buttered". He thought them "exceeding delicate meat", and appreciated the fact that they "do not engender wind as the other pulses do".
Cultivation
Green beans are found in two major groups, bush beans and pole beans.Bush beans are short plants, growing to approximately two feet in height, without requiring supports. They generally reach maturity and produce all of their fruit in a relatively short period of time, then cease to produce. Gardeners may grow more than one crop of bush beans in a season.
Pole beans have a climbing habit and produce a twisting vine. Runner beans have a similar habit but are a different species of bean.
Sowing And Growing French Beans
French Beans are grown like runner beans – however, dwarf varieties can be handily grown in pots or growbags, ideal for anyone with a smaller garden.
Sow in April under glass (cloches, in a greenhouse or on a windowsill indoors) or outdoors in May, and June, and July. Dwarf beans should be sown in blocks around 25cm apart or in rows 45cm apart.
Climbing beans will need support, just like runner beans, and should be planted put in 10cm apart, with rows 45cm apart.
Harvesting Beans
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You can start picking French Beans around seven to eight weeks after they’ve been sow – so, from around the end of June onwards. Pick the first pods when they’re young, before the beans can be seen developing within the pod. These young pods can be frozen or cooked whole. Or, let them develop but not mature, then pick, shell and cook the green beans (flageolets). You can also allow them to mature on the plant until they turn yellow, then dry and store them in jars (haricots).
Varieties Of French Beans
Dwarf beans mature earlier than climbing beans; however, climbing beans crop more heavily than dwarf varieties.
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