A hopefully nice thread about ...runnerbeans

[tissy]

Dd came home from nursery a few months ago with three beans planted in a plastic cup. When they got to a decent size, I transplanted them into a large flowerpot (18" diam) and made a type of wigwam from bamboo canes.

Now we have three HUGE runner bean plants and last night dd had runner beans for tea .

BUT the plants are looking a bit tired and the leaves are rather yellow, is there anything I can do to keep them going? There are loads more little beans growing,but not sure if the plant will last long enough for them to get to a good size. Gave them a good water last night (before the downpour ) and have some tomato feed- could I give them a dose of that?

they are coming to the end of their season tissy.

make sure you pick as many as you can - this encourages new growth.

to entertain your dd, buy a bean slicer (cheap from most kitchen shops) and let her pull the beans through - keeps my two gripped.

we've had a bumper crop from ds's runner bean plant too - he's been thrilled to bits (hasn't eaten any of the buggers though ). They've come to an end though, we just had what I think are the last ones sadly.

Will be planting them next year having seen how well they did!

I love runner beans -- my mum grows them every year.

I wish I had a big garden and cold grow my own food am very MT

thankyou MT what a kind thought
I am already the grateful recipient of my mother's largesse she comes to visit bearing runner beans, purple sprouting, onions and sometimes garlic home grown garlic and onions seem so much more potent don't you think?

All I manage to grow are herbs -- -have a couple of rosemary bushes, a huge bay tree, oregano, thyme and sage. Also a pot of basil on the kitchen window sill.

MT do they make you cry when you peel them I had some organic onions the other week and could barely see for tears when I peeled them and I'm usually so tough!

Well done Tissy's dd, with her runner beans! Mine have come to naught. I adore runner beans, one of my fave veg, but I rarely see them in the shops and even then they often come from Eygypt and are tasteless.