Best pole snap beans

Lomatia · February 11, 2008

We call them climbing beans in Australia. There are limited numbers of varieties as beans are a prohibited import so we can protect the bean seed industry.
I grow Lazy Wife, Giant of Stuttgart and Natural Salt. Others available are Blue Lake, Epicure, Kentucky Wonder, Mammoth Golden Cluster and Purple King. One catalogue has Climbing Princess, Mostoller Wild Goose and Zebra listed as well. There are also odd little varieties grown by European immigrants that were probably smuggled in in earlier times but these are not freely available.

In Australia we have quite a range of Bush French Beans - both for home use and commercial production.

February 11, 2008	#16
Lomatia Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Australia Posts: 147	We call them climbing beans in Australia. There are limited numbers of varieties as beans are a prohibited import so we can protect the bean seed industry. I grow Lazy Wife, Giant of Stuttgart and Natural Salt. Others available are Blue Lake, Epicure, Kentucky Wonder, Mammoth Golden Cluster and Purple King. One catalogue has Climbing Princess, Mostoller Wild Goose and Zebra listed as well. There are also odd little varieties grown by European immigrants that were probably smuggled in in earlier times but these are not freely available. In Australia we have quite a range of Bush French Beans - both for home use and commercial production.