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vanozzi said:

Never grown the yard long beans, only blue lake (climbing) and butter beans (bush), plus broad beans..Oh, also a Dutch bean, a type of kidney bean for my father when he was still on the planet.Dad made ''Bruine bonensoep'' (Brown bean soup).
How tall is your trellis for the yard long ones?Are they perennial or annual?

I grow Blue Lake Pole beans but never have grown the Blue Lake Bush beans. Mostly my beans are done here (with a few stragglers) but the Blue Lakes started setting beans late so those are going strong right now.

The Yard Long Bean is a type from the Tropics of Asia. For sure an annual. Can't take even a hint of cold. However it thrives in the summer. Never bothered by summer heat no matter how much the heat and humidity climbs.

I love them, they are so easy and they taste great. My trellis for them is only 6 feet high and it seems to work well. Really I have never put up anything higher for them.