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All kind beans

September 30, 2009 by Andrea Bellamy 11 Comments

all beans are kind

You know, I tend to agree. All beans are kind. Especially Fortex. I’m still harvesting handfuls of this delicious French filet pole bean, and loving every morsel.

What were the standouts from your garden this summer?

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  1. Blackswampgirl Kim says

    September 30, 2009 at 12:32 pm

    Kind beans seem like the ones I want to see on my plate, personally. Much better than angry beans… :)

  2. Willi says

    September 30, 2009 at 1:35 pm

    My beans didn’t do very well this year (I’m a fan of ‘Vernandon’ and ‘Garden of Eatin’ myself), but my ‘Fairy Tale’ eggplants did so well. I’ve picked a big bunch and now am suffering as I try to decide what to do with them.

  3. BrownThumbMama says

    September 30, 2009 at 4:13 pm

    You’re right! Fortex are kind beans. I had a terrible year with them, though.

    http://www.brownthumbmama.com/2009/08/theyre-supposed-to-be-green-beans.html

    Do you have any suggestions?

  4. Teri says

    September 30, 2009 at 6:22 pm

    We had great luck with Fortex in Salt Lake City. Tried them here in Fort Worth this summer and only got TWO little beans. A rabbit ate some of the plants and the heat got to the others. We did have good luck with the pink-eye purple-hull peas. They are still going strong.

  5. Andrea says

    October 1, 2009 at 12:21 pm

    Willi – Oh, I have a tonne of eggplants, too! I can’t remember the variety, but it’s a Japanese eggplant, which are super tasty. But I’m at a loss, too. The best I can come up with is a stirfry, which isn’t very inspired.

  6. Tracey says

    October 2, 2009 at 9:19 am

    Willi and Andrea – Quiet lurker here . . . I begged a friend who is a chef for his recipe for Eggplant Roulades for my ‘Fairy Tale’ Eggplant. I rarely make it to the ‘roll each slice with mozzarella’ step and end up eating all of the eggplant right out of the oven!

    http://lifeinsugarhollow.blogspot.com/2007/08/recipe-eggplant-roulades.html

  7. CvSeedSavers says

    October 2, 2009 at 9:25 pm

    This year we were given a variety of bean called ‘Tung’s Beans’ that were brought to Canada by a Chinese immigrant over 100 years ago. Unfortunately, they were so tasty that people ate a few too many right off the bush when we meant to save seeds. I guess this is a case of a bean that is too kind for its own good.

  8. nancy says

    October 6, 2009 at 12:49 pm

    my beans didn’t do so well this year, neither did my clematises. i thought maybe because i planted the beans in my container garden on the 3d floor and might have been due to lack of pollinators. but not so, there were many bumblebees and hummers. i guess this year just wasn’t that great for them. black krim tomatoes, beets and mass amounts of cukes and pickles on my patio this year. the hot weather was especially good for tomatoes and cukes!

  9. Dee/reddirtramblings says

    October 10, 2009 at 1:47 pm

    I’m glad there are still places where people hand letter signs and have kind beans.~~Dee

  10. Terry Williams says

    October 19, 2009 at 4:44 pm

    My husband planted a package of the Fortex beans this spring but the weather conspired against us and only five sprouted. However, five plants proved to be more than sufficient for this couple — what beautiful beans they were. Definitely first on the list next year!

  11. Leslie Halleck says

    October 28, 2009 at 3:39 pm

    My ‘Roc D’Or’ French yellow wax beans are absolutely fabulous this fall! You can buy them through Botanical Interest Seeds.

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