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Runner Beans.

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  • Pete.8Pete.8 Posts: 11,340
    I grow White Lady and have about 15 plants sown in 3 batches - 30 Apr - 28 June - 10 July
    The earlier ones suffered a lot of slug damage, but I've also been harvesting for about 3 weeks now and as usual I have more than I know what to do with.

    Interestingly the ones I sowed on 30 Apr started cropping about the same time as those sown on 28 June


    Billericay - Essex

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    Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
  • bédébédé Posts: 3,095
    Dove, Bob:  White Lady and Moonllight, I have noted for next year. But I do like the taste of runners and am quite happy to do the de-stringing and slicing.
     location: Surrey Hills, England, ex-woodland acidic sand.
    "Have nothing in your garden that you don't know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Dovefromabove said:
    ... We’re growing Moonlight … a runner x French bean … all the flavour and size of runners but with the French bean’s ability to self-pollinate. 
    As I said ... all the flavour of runners  :)

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • bcpathomebcpathome Posts: 1,313
    Love runner beans. I have been picking for about 2 weeks here in Buckinghamshire. It’s so windy and cold but beans seem to be fine , still coming .
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    edited August 2021
    Dovefromabove said:
    Dovefromabove said:
    ... We’re growing Moonlight … a runner x French bean … all the flavour and size of runners but with the French bean’s ability to self-pollinate. 
    As I said ... all the flavour of runners  :)


    We picked all that were ready on Thursday morning to take to MIL … so we were away on Friday and returned yesterday … these were waiting for us this morning … we have about 15 plants up a teepee. 
    There will be as many again ready for us to pick tomorrow  :D

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • depoksharma07depoksharma07 Posts: 38
    I am harvesting this year runner beans.
  • Nanny BeachNanny Beach Posts: 8,719
    I can't do the cutting anymore arthritis and tendonitis of hands,hubby had to do it this year.
  • bédébédé Posts: 3,095
    Envious.  I haven't started picking yet.
     location: Surrey Hills, England, ex-woodland acidic sand.
    "Have nothing in your garden that you don't know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."
  • bédébédé Posts: 3,095
    edited August 2021
    Dove:  MIL ??

    Nanny:  Spong!
     location: Surrey Hills, England, ex-woodland acidic sand.
    "Have nothing in your garden that you don't know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."
  • cornellycornelly Posts: 970
    I grow the Stenner strain and have for many years, and expect as this year to be picking from the first week of August
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