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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle
Allan Jenkins

Wigwam pow-wow

Our lovely French yellow beans of restricted growth

Help! Our beans don't measure up. The yellow Beurre Aiguille beans the seed ambassadors gave us have turned out to be the dwarf variety (it comes as both). Now we know size isn't supposed to matter but... they are only about 12 inches high and already flowering, which would be wonderful if they weren't mixed in with the other, climbing, beans in our 8ft hazel wigwams!

It's too late to move them now so are thinking we should grow something else up the sticks aswell. But are we too late for that, too? Our preference is for old-school sweet peas but we are finding it impossible to find plants. Does anyone know a good source? Or have other solutions/suggestions? And what is the story on morning glory?

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