Vegetable Climbing French Bean Blue Lake

Description

Vegetable Climbing French Bean Blue Lake

Vegetable Climbing French Bean Blue Lake , 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 

• 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