The Great Bean Experiment

          A couple weeks ago, I planted five varieties of beans in my garden. I devoted an entire raised bed to the purple snap beans because they have been the most reliable in the past. These are Royal Burgundy purple snap beans from Johnny's Selected Seeds. This is what they looked like this morning.

 

 

          These are the Northeaster snap beans that I also bought from Johnny's Selected Seeds. They are pole beans, which means that they have to grow on a trellis or some sort of support. I had to retrain these a bit this morning because they were twirling around each other and falling forward rather than leaning back and wrapping around the trellis.

 

          This is a view of a long bed where I planted four small samplings of beans. Up close are Blue Lake 274 bush beans from Burpee, then a little to the right are the Northeaster climbing beans. To the far left are California Blackeye No. 5 from Burpee Seeds, commonly known as black-eye peas. To the far right is a novelty climber from Johnny's called Red Noodle. I still need to put up a support for them. They are supposed to produce yard-long purple snap beans, so it will be fun to see what they look like.