What Runner beans are you growing.

That sounds a fantastic idea!! I might just give that a go, and a add a little chicken poop!

I can heartily recommend them. My OH wanted to grow them, and I was really disinterested in them to be honest - I felt it was a bit of a whim. But we have eaten them the same as runners. They have the prettiest white flowers, and then the pods are streaked with red/pink. They have been great, and any that I have let go too far I leave until they are decent beans inside and pop em out for a dish. To be honest that hasn't happened too often as they are so delicious they don't get left for long. They are a bit more mild than a runner bean if you eat them raw, a tinsy bit more 'mange tout-ish.' But once they are cooked you can't tell much between them.

 

Yes, add the chicken poop Victoria Plum.
The richer the ground the more the beans love it.
And I'll try the borlotti - maybe let them go for beans.

 

This year I grew Red Rum and got 27lb of beans from 10 plants, which kept us, 2 daughters, my elderly neighbour, assorted friends and relatives and the freezer happily supplied..... oh! and I forgot you're supposed to dig a trench and fill it with loads of compost etc., so I reckon my 'yield' on poor sandy soil was pretty good.

 

I grew Polestar this year - fantastic crop and still going strong.

 

I always grow Enorma. It`s a variety I used when I used to show, they have good flavour and can grow to about 18" without being stringy.:gnthb:

 

I have found a lot of things have been confused by the weather. My tomatoes were flowering and growing beautifully, then all these green tomatoes appeared which just kinds languished there for ages. They just were too wet and cold to turn red!

Now they all seem to be dying off.

Summer seems to have gone before it even got started as far as garden edibles go!

 

I grew some Dwarf Runner Beans, from a children's kit picked up in the B&Q sale! I grew them in a pot in the greenhouse, and got a decent crop!!

 

Ooh... how interesting! I didn't know beans were tuberous.