Fantastic Dwarf French Beans
Like all the climbing types, the pods of the dwarf French beans come in a variety of colours all offering different tastes and textures whether eaten freshly picked or taken out of the freezer and cooked.
Grow dwarf french runner beans
These beans like any soil as long as it’s not too heavy or acidic. Make sure the location of where you grow them is sunny and sheltered from the wind. Plant the seedlings around 10 inches (25cm) apart each way. Use a stick alongside each seedling to keep the plants upright as they grow. Keep them well watered, particularly when it’s dry weather.
Nutrition
Dwarf French beans are a good source of vitamin A and K, and many gardeners and cooks believe French beans are better used for freezing than runner beans. Digestible, low in calories and filled with vitamins, green beans are very popular.
Origins
The green bean was born in the hot regions of the Americas, India and China. It was introduced to France by the Conquistadors about 1597. For a long time rare and expensive, this vegetable became widespread only in the 19th century. The first to put green beans on their menus were the French.
