Photo by Rick Gush
Romano green bean are my favorite bonce !
I had never grown Romano green bean before I came to Italy , and the only ones I had eaten were , I realize now , awfully overcooked . Romano beans have a spot of gum like okra , but only a small amount . regrettably , overcooking is how to bring out the glue , so that ’s what a lot of folks get when they eat on theselegumes . That ’s too bad , because these enceinte , flat crop are scrumptious , and they have become my preferred unripe bean . My wife make a dish antenna with pasta , some soft cheese , such asprecensua(imagine ricotta cheeseflower with more savour ) ; and big , flat beans calledtaccole , or Romano . The gum in question work especially well when the flat bean are quick - fried with fossil oil andgarlic ; the thin braising is very tasty .
Romano bean grow just like all other unripe attic . The smorgasbord are mostly of the climbing sort , but there are some bush type , as well . Generally , the bush types produce a unmarried turgid flush and a subsequent dribble , while the climber seem to be more consistent producers . This means that planting a series of unlike seedlings , perchance two week asunder , is the best way of life to have a long harvest flow with the bush beans .
Beans like warmth , so I never seek to push the seeds into cold soil . I really press to get most of my vegetables in as early on as potential , but not the green beans . At the moment , I ’m about to plant ourtaccolefor the twelvemonth , and the weather is roleplay odd and I ’m hesitating to found if the next week is survive to be blind drunk and cool , as the predictions say . Hmm … this may be an appropriate time to plant the seeds in Mary Jane indoors , something I almost never would do for easy - germinating seeds , such as beans .
Once the plants are up , I find I get much better termination if I consistently irrigate them regularly . If the plant have to press for urine at some percentage point , the flowers do n’t seem to go under as well , and the little beans that were on the vine will never fully recover from the shock . I use wooden-headed mulch to assure that the soil continue moist at all times . I think the mulch also helps prevent contention from weeds , which is n’t a good affair , because they have relatively shallow root systems that are easy adversely regard by weed competition .
In all the years of growing these bean , I think I ’ve had a dozen different plague problems with them , from rust to mosaic diseases , but still I consider beans an almost pest destitute plant . Sure , it might calculate ragged at the end of the time of year , but that does n’t count as long as the plants bring forth a raft of bean in the meanwhile .
When I first started produce beans , I would always get a software system of inoculating powder to sink the germ in before planting . That vaccination seemed to help more nitrogen - fixing nodules to grow on the bean plants ’ roots , which seemed to be a good thing . But , I will admit my data was undefined . These days , I do n’t inoculate , mostly because I have n’t seen a nursery here that sells the packet of inoculation powder .
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