The first photo is what I bought and planted. The second photo is what I harvested. Clearly these are not green beans. Are they pole beans? Or did I do something wrong?
The crazy part is that I can see where 1-2 seeds might be wrong, but this is 3 separate hills on a trellis.
by HottieMcHotHot
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Those look like half runners
Beans are beans at the end of any season.
You just missed the super tender harvest stage. After the tender, skinnier stage, they usually get stringy too. Eventually, the inner seed – the actual Bean- forms. If you left them to dry to rattle-stage on the plant, you could dry to eat them or save non-hybrids for next years seed.
I think what you grew is what is pictured on the packet. The ones you grew are just older. Beans when you don’t pick them when they are young, get large seeds
Is it the end of the growing season? All green beans ime tend to mature faster and more sort of wonky shaped later in the season and as the plants get older – still totally edible and that is what you grew, you just have to be quicker if you want them to look like the tender young beans on the picture (well plus some luck and plenty of warmth and water)
Keep trying different varieties though – I’m not a fan of that type, I still grew some this year but I prefer other varieties – in fact if you have a hard time harvesting green beans and don’t like to eat them when they get to mature, try purple podded pole beans, they’re just easy to see to harvest, lol.
I planted these exact same beans in the spring with the exact same result. Burpee gave me some sort of non-sensical response about changing climate / weather. They did refund my purchase but I’m out the labor, time, fertilizer, watering. Ended up giving them to our neighbors for their hogs, inedible and not pole beans.
This is what happens to my beans when there’s a very hot dry spell during the bean pod’s growth mixed with what I think is poor pollination (so pods not full of beans). I’ve had it happen quite a lot this year, despite getting perfectly normal beans when it’s been a bit cooler and damper. Seeds were left overs from a packet last year, and I didn’t have this happen last year.
I also planted what were supposed to be bush beans this year but they climbed 5ft up my tomato cages and looked exactly like this before I pulled them out. I forget which variety but I know for sure they were suppose to be bush beans. Got them from Rare Seed co (used to be called bakers)
Romanos
Garden bean
I grew those this year and ran into the same issue! I tried picking them at different times and no matter what they never looked right. They got large pods almost immediately and the shell was inedible. I ended up pulling them.
We had our bean plants in containers. One plant would only produce beans that were flattened like your photo shows. The others were the more traditional round tube. We suspect it was some of the hotter weather in August but it still seems strange that some plants were affected and some we weren’t.
A different variety than was listed on the package. I’ve gotten this for peppers. There are some well-meaning seed growers out there who don’t have a proper understanding of isolation distances.
You grew seeds for next year. Dry them out and plant them next year.
These look like the beans we use in Turkish cooking all the time 🙂
Edamame?
So I planted burpee bush beans (can’t remember exactly which one right now but it was one of the most popular ones) and they did terrible (7a).
Guess I’m not the only one….
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You probably didn’t inoculate your seeds. And Burpee doesn’t care what they sold you.
Usually high quality effort can’t overcome a low-quality beginning.
Least you got some beans, I planted bush beans and got amaranth. Idk why the amaranth came up in the exact same spots I put beans, but it did.
I didn’t know what it was for awhile and then figured it out…
Beans that are done-zo