French Bean [phaseolus coccineus]

Got some french bean from my kitchen and they look pretty too ripe for consumption. Dried the bean and got the seeds to grow and experiment on this plant.

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Beans begin sprouting withing days and i placed them near some shady area, water daily and grown in compost based soil.

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I transferred each plant into separate pot  and i provided a recycled metal stand with wires around it for the vines to climb.

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It took 2 months for the plant to creep all over the metal frame and started to produce little white flowers all over. Then, tiny little pods starts to form from these flowers and its pretty amazing to watch these french bean grow daily and quickly.

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Within 2 weeks you get to harvest more than 20 to 30 bean from each plant.

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The first few harvest is slow but within weeks from the first harvest, the amount of bean will increase steadily and eventually dried up over a month or two.

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