Runner beans are a standing joke in my family, my kids reckon they were brought up on them as they were on the plate with every dinner! Needless to say they don't eat them now.
I wouldn't feel guilty putting tough, stringy runner beans on the compost, though if there were a lot I would feel guilty about missing them when they were good and therefore 'wasting' them. Making compost is not really waste though.
This recipe uses runner beans and tomatoes and freezes well. I have made 2 variants, one with tomatoes and another without tomatoes but with more coconut; frozen them in containers for the winter months.
Oxford. The City of Dreaming Spires.
And then my heart with pleasure fills,
And dances with the daffodils (roses). Taking a bit of liberty with Wordsworth
While peeling potatoes and preparing runner beans for Sunday lunch I wondered would young people really bother doing these mundane tasks to feed themselves some of them come across as being such helpless beings these days.
Oh they will, @barry island, just give them 20 years. Suddenly, without them realising it, they’ll slip from ‘gramming’ sandy beaches and pop festivals to home grown marrows and bowls of tomatoes.
I love fresh runner beans but don't think they're as good frozen so any surplus go out on the doorstep together with the cucumbers that are growing by the million. Any that are still there at the end of the day go on the compost heap but most are snapped up. I put surplus plants out too when I'm dividing them with a note giving their botanical name and growth habits. Usually they have been taken but only once has anyone knocked and said thank you (to say that I was surprised is an understatement). I hate to waste anything so will always try find someone who is able to use things I have no need for.
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For those with a runner bean glut, we ate this the other day and it was really delicious:
https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/sri-lankan-runner-bean-curry
The vegetable matter goeth straight back to the earth and passeth not through the middle man😇
I put surplus plants out too when I'm dividing them with a note giving their botanical name and growth habits. Usually they have been taken but only once has anyone knocked and said thank you (to say that I was surprised is an understatement).
I hate to waste anything so will always try find someone who is able to use things I have no need for.