29-01-2019, 10:45 AM
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Re: Runner Beans
Originally Posted by Mups
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Have a look through these Dongles, see if anything grabs at yer. 
https://www.gardenfocused.co.uk/vege.../varieties.php
Originally Posted by JBR
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Marge says you should pluck them from the stem sooner rather than later, or they will become stringy and tough.
Originally Posted by Meg
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I ordered my runner beans yesterday 'Aintree ' tender beans with lots of flavours . I eat mine small only allowing them to grow to 9in maximum.
Originally Posted by Barry
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I have tried all varieties over the years but always go back to "Moonlight", a white flowered variety with a reliable set and good flavour, in fact it is the only variety that I grow now.
Last year I just bought plants but then you can't be so choosy about which ones to grow.
01-02-2019, 04:34 PM
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Re: Runner Beans
Originally Posted by Mups
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Have a look through these Dongles, see if anything grabs at yer. https://www.gardenfocused.co.uk/vege.../varieties.php
I wonder how the runners beans we buy are able to get so long without being fibrous?
05-02-2019, 05:29 PM
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Re: Runner Beans
Runner beans are grown on the allotment where I help out. I know nothing about the best way to grow them but I was asked to dig out a quite deep and wide trench in preparation for this year's crop.The trench was lined with newspaper and over the next few weeks, it was filled with old cabbage cuttings, potato peelings and generally any waste that would decompose. Some compost too I think.
When all this was about a foot or more deep, the earth from the trench was shovelled in over the top. The bean poles will be erected here and this year's beans grown.
I'm told this will make a difference to the quality of the runner beans because the roots grow into the compost. I hope that's right because digging that trench and then shovelling the earth back in was damned hard work.
05-02-2019, 07:41 PM
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Re: Runner Beans
Originally Posted by mart
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Runner beans are grown on the allotment where I help out. I know nothing about the best way to grow them but I was asked to dig out a quite deep and wide trench in preparation for this year's crop.The trench was lined with newspaper and over the next few weeks, it was filled with old cabbage cuttings, potato peelings and generally any waste that would decompose. Some compost too I think.
When all this was about a foot or more deep, the earth from the trench was shovelled in over the top. The bean poles will be erected here and this year's beans grown.
I'm told this will make a difference to the quality of the runner beans because the roots grow into the compost. I hope that's right because digging that trench and then shovelling the earth back in was damned hard work.
05-02-2019, 08:30 PM
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Re: Runner Beans
Originally Posted by mart
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It looks like it's the best thing to do then Meg. At least I get a fair share of them when the time comes ..plus courgettes, butternut squash, cabbage and anything else she has grown. I've requested radishes this year,
to me home grown vegetables taste so much better than bought ones 
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