Ninnymary, they taste like regular green beans. They are best stir fried or lightly steamed. If boiled for hours, they turn to mush. Sooooo.......they cut down on cooking time! Not stringy at all, very tender and good flavor.
digitS I have grown other green beans before, but never got the production these give me. I live in town on a small lot, space is at a premium, so these are clearly the winner!
wmsoak, these taste good. They vine like somebody sprayed them with steroids.
But they back it up and make green beans until we were sick of them! They are finally winding down now, but the last rain we had perked them back up and we had green beans last night! They are still blooming and covered with more beans.
The green bean garden resides next to the driveway. It is about a foot wide and twelve feet long. I have rebar pounded in the ground and web it with hay twine. When the vines are dead, I cut the twine loose, roll it all up and bag it up for the trash.
This is the 3rd year I have grown these. The first year, I carefully prepared the soil and composted the crap (literally)
out of it. I got tons of vines but no beans all summer until the last of August. The 2nd year, I did not compost the soil, but got the same vines and finally got beans. This year I still did not compost and they started producing and kept producing and kept producing..........I dunno.......keep looking for that durn pink Everready bunny lurking in the foliage........maybe he buried batteries under the vines.
do you find them stringy at all??
