Re: [gardeners] gardeners Digest V1 #474
margaret lauterbach (gardeners@globalgarden.com)
Wed, 10 Mar 1999 08:08:09 -0700
At 12:14 AM 3/10/99 EST, you wrote:
>
>In a message dated 3/10/99 5:05:31 AM,
owner-gardeners-digest@globalgarden.com
>writes:
>
><<purple hyacinth beans>>
>
>Dear George:
>
>Are these good to eat? I have heard of them, but never grown them,
actually I
>haven't even seen the seeds. Are they like Scarlet Runners? I have grown
>them. Pretty flowers, too much foliage, and okay to eat, not much for the
>linear feet taken up in my opinion.
>
>Mary-Anne
>
Mary-Anne, have you grown Painted Lady pole beans? The blossoms are
bi-colored, white and red -- okay, gaudy. What did you expect with a name
like Painted Lady? I like the beans very much, although they're wide and
flat. I think they're prime candidates for slicing. Margaret