Shameless plug for pole beans....

[Bigmack]

I've grown the best pole beans of my life this year... and this year we didn't even have much summer in the Seattle area.

I grew "Goldmarie" from Territorial Seeds.

http://www.territorialseed.com/product/11578/pole_bean_seed

They are a Romano type... flatter than Blue Lakes.

Very "bean-ey" flavor... no strings, no matter how big they are!

Delicious!

And very productive.

[pinto]

1. Thanks for the info. Plan to do some this year.

:thumbsup:

[KT2000]

2. Having Romanos for dinner

tonight - main course. They are my favorite bean. These came from Eastern WA though.
Let's hear it for the beans! :applause:

[lumberjack_jeff]

3. We've canned dozens of quarts of pole beans this year.

Yeah, baby.

[JDPriestly]

4. Thanks. How did you get the seeds?

[pansypoo53219]

5. YAY! blue lake pole beans.

but mine did poorly this year. but maybe today's rain will help. might get another month of beans. if not for me, for my cat. my cat LOVES BEANS.

[JoeyT]

6. K&R

Never tried the Goldmarie beans, but Territorial is a damned good seed company.

[Fly by night]

7. My "old school" Kentucky Wonders have produced for three months and ...

... my second planting of them is starting to produce also. This is the first time for me to do a second planting of summer veggies besides sweet corn. I am harvesting new cukes, yellow squash, tomatoes, basil and onions -- in addition to pole beans -- from those later plantings; and am continuing to harvest basil, tomatoes (some of my plants are over ten feet tall), bell and chile peppers AND pole beans from my spring plantings. I also have some beautiful field pea plants as a second planting but they haven't flowered yet so they may end up just being green manure.

I am amazed at how well my Garden did with the ridiculous heat and almost no rain we had here in middle Tennessee in July and August. Being down in my deep hollow (where the Garden is shaded except for about 5-6 hours a day), watering diligently and mulching with 500 bags of leaves and 400 bales of straw (all donated) did the trick, I do believe.

Thank the Goddess for our Gardens. Pole beans, huzzah!