Mystery white seeds?

Hi all,

Are these runner bean seeds? Found loads in the hut - maybe a few years old! Will they grow? Worth trying eh...

 

More likely to be French beans than runners as they are white but they still look a bit too round. Could they be haricot or navy beans? Or dolichos (unlikely)?

 

Not Runners. Worth having a go though, let us know what the plant looks like before you go eating them though as some beans contain toxins when raw.

 

curiouser and curiouser - cheers will give em a bash

 

in fact if I plant them in some compost and put them in the window in my warm room - do you reckon they might start to sprout (assuming they are not dead seeds)

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Certainly not runners, and as Ziggy says, worth giving them a try.

You can check their viability now. Put a few 6 - 10 if you have loads, on a piece of damp kitchen towel inside a container (plastic ice-cream box or similar) keep them in a warm room and in 3-4 days you should see signs of life.

If they are a variety of French bean, try a few as dwarf and a few as climbers.
Also take note of Zigs comment about toxins in beans. All French beans should be cooked before eating.

a-a

 

Yeah, i'd go with Alex with just a few, not enough light at this time of year & with the heating on you'd have hell of a straggly plant that you won't be able to plant out till may when the frosts have gone.

10 minutes boiling destroys the toxins in beans.

 

>looks for ice cream carton and kitchen towel...<

 

Wonder if they'll be Magic Beans?

 

Now that's interesting - but believe me - my room is usually so cold I reckon they'll be hardened off already ;-)

 

Not sure but found them in this jar. (I ate all the coloured ones).

 

Well they look magic to me:D

 

They look like a navy bean to me....good luck with them.

 

Found this Adopt a Veg

Navy Bean Edmund

Formerly known as ‘Navy Bean’ this variety came to us from Harlow Carr Botanic Gardens. It is believed that Navy beans were first cultivated to sustain Australian forces during WWII. The compact, branching plants have white flowers followed by a heavy yield of short, green pods containing small, round beans. Principally used as a drying bean, but can also be eaten as a green bean too.

I live near Harlow Carr - curiouser and curiouser!

 

Mystery solved

After failed attempts to germinate the mystery beans I can now reveal that they are in fact Co-op's own brand.