Characteristics of Carmen bush bean:
What can it be grown for?
What are the characteristics of Carmen Carmen bush beans?
The habit of the bush bean:
Shrub height, over 40 cm. The leaves are medium green and large. The pods are 1520 cm long and contain 67 maroon-coloured seeds.
Breeding time, hardiness:
Medium longevity, good yielding variety. Resistant to bean drop.
Uses:
Increasingly used as chilli beans, salad beans.
Growing Carmen dry edible beans:
Seeding:
Sow in early May, after frosts have passed.
In early May, when the harvest starts in early May:
Sow 40 cm x 6 cm row and stover spacing, sowing in rows.
Harvest:
Seeds mature from early September.
