First runner beans sown

[rhyddid]

[Wombat]

Sounds great Rhyddid!

I save my own seeds as well (some at least) and it is a good strategy . I only grow dwarf beans these days, I tried runner beans once and none of my lot would eat 'em .

Have you tried sacerlet runner beans? they are perennials and have nice red flowers.

Nev

[rhyddid]

[Wombat]

G'Day Rhyddld,

Scarlet runner beans are also called seven year beans or multiflora beans are a species themselves - Phaseolis coccineus.

The beans are large and are coloured half pink half black.

I have only grown beans as an annual becaue the frost gets 'em, but the scarlet runners die back and then sprout again the next spring from the same root.

Nev

[Andy Hamilton]

Thats a lot of pot noodles mate

I too have started off a load of beans (cheers), I quite understand why allotments up and down the country have beans on them I could not belive how much came from my one plant last year. (the first year I grew beans) I think that I too will be growing soe every year. They are good plants in a crop rotation system too because of the nitrogen that they absorb.

[rhyddid]