Growing Calendar for Climbing French Bean - Cobra Seeds
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My AccountGrow this French Bean variety as runner beans. Cobra can also be grown under glass for an early crop.
Produces huge deliciously tender and tasty crops of exceptional quality beans.
With lovely violet flowers too, this is a vegetable beautiful enough for any flower border - making it just perfect for smaller gardens!
Pods grow up to 8in long and are stringless.
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Cobra are a high yielding crop. Started in a roottrainer and plant them around a wigwam of poles. Easily 7 feet high plants with a continuous crop beginning in June and expect them to go into September. Very crisp and snappy, freeze well with a lovely flavour.
Cobra give an easy and prolific crop. I always start them in a plastic container and plant them into a trench with a bit of manure just as they are starting their second set of leaves. Last summer, they must have grown 12 feet - making beans all the way! We had a bumper crop from less than a packet of seeds! They are long and slim and crisp and snappy and freeze well.
These produce a massive crop which do need to be picked daily to stop them 'going over'. This can be a slight problem if they are not in your garden! Germination was not too great and I did have to make a second sowing, but very well worth growing and much easier than normal French beans. They also freeze extremely well and we were eating them for Christmas lunch!
Excellent flavour, tender and tasty beans
Sow Indoors: April-May, singly in clean pots or modules of compost 2in (5cm) deep. Water well. Keep warm.
Sow Outdoors: May-June direct into the required harvest position, 2in (5cm) deep, 8in (20cm) apart. Keep soil moist at all times.
Plant Out: Indoor raised crops May-June 8in (20cm) apart.
Harvest: June-August.
Climbing beans require trellis or a 'wig wam' of canes to climb through.
Pick young beans regularly for best flavour.
Standard Seeds E.C Rules and Regulations.
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August is primarily about harvesting your crops, but there are still some vegetables that can be sown and planted out!
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