Belindas Back Yard Gardening - Borlotti beans

Hello fellow gardener's where beginners and experts are welcome.

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A bean is the seed of one of several genera of the flowering plants family Fabaceae, which are used as vegetables for humans and animal food.

Who doesn't like growing beans?

 Are you a seasoned grower with lot's of gardening experience's to share, maby you are you thinking of getting your hands dirty and would like to grow them for the first time and would like some help you are in the right place.

Last year I tried growing beans for the first time and I didn't have a huge success with them, I didn't plant enough so I got a small harvest. It was my first time growing them vertically and I had a few learning experiences with them. 

We don't make gardening mistakes; we only have gardening experiences. 😊

This year, after last year's growing experience I bought some different beans and they are called Borlotti beans. 

I have never seen such beautiful black and white seed's and flowers. They are now about 20 inches tall, have starting to flower and I got my first bean harvest. 

As well as growing bush varieties in small spaces. I have 9-12 in each square foot pot and I have 3 pots with mini bush Borlotti bean's, I also have planted some non bush varieties, including Borlotti beans planted along a new arched trellis I bought for growing vertically.

I'm looking forward to harvesting them if I don't kill them first, so far so good. 😂

I sowed seed's into large pod seed tray and also a few in small pot's, I used yogurt pot's and some other small re usable plastic pot's that were used for something else before being a pot for seed's and small plant's and for potting on.

I usually always sive compost however I tried a new brand. It was perfect and I didn't have to sive the compost for seed starting. 

The reason I and many other gardener's do it for starting all of your seeds is that it gives the root's access to grow and when it is time to pot on your young seedling's the seedlings come apart easily and root's stay intact. 

After a week they had broken the surface and a week later they grew about 6 inches, some more so I planted them under one of the new Arched trellis.

Are you a Borlotti bean fan and what tips, tricks and questions are all welcome. 

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Have a great gardening day. 😊🥬🥬🥬 

Belindas Back Yard Gardening.