Topic: You can't mess with Nature!

[tim]

If you had asked me when my Runners would be ready, I would have said the same as for the last 50 years - 25 July.

Picked today,
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these were planted in April, with protection - [attachment=1] - thought I might be onto a winner. But Nature knows best?
 
I normally put them out in May.

[Fork]

Green beans,cherry tomatoes,whiskey and John Smiths

Come on Tim give us the recipe,sounds yummy  ;) ;D

[calendula]

well done Tim, my are only just flowering, but I like to have them for later in the season

[Chris Graham]

Thats a lot of runners Tim, excellent harvest!  ;)

Checked mine last night and I have may be two ready.  Mine are "Enorma Elite" so I'm expecting great things.

I cant even count how many I have!





Do you always de-string them?

Never tried these before.

[tim]

Lovely pictures.

We mostly grow 'stringless', so no.

With others, if they snap, then no!

 Later? 2 later sowings of French are way behind.

[saddad]

We are days away from a flood of both...  ;D

[shirlton]

My climbing french are in flower but no beans yet. I think they know that there isn't any room for them in the freezer yet.

[hopalong]

Fantastic early crop Tim. Do you always grow your runner beans in the same place or do you rotate? I repositioned mine this year to avoid them shading other crops and they are not doing as well as last year (which was my first year as an allotment holder). Plenty of flowers on my Enorma and Prizewinner varieties, but only tiny pods so far; some flowers on my climbing french beans but no pods yet; dwarf french beans also flowering but no pods formed yet.

[Rhubarb Thrasher]

with the french beans at home "just" got to the stage where when we pick there are too many to hold in two hands  ;D Runners just starting cropping

[gardening-gal]

I've frozen 4 meals worth of beans so far they've just started and this has been the best year so far.  Hopefully lots more to come  ;D

[star]

Ive had 2 meals so far, very nice. The others are slowly growing......I did plant them much to close together. Twit! 

[Barnowl]

Thats a lot of runners Tim, excellent harvest!  ;)

Checked mine last night and I have may be two ready.  Mine are "Enorma Elite" so I'm expecting great things.

I cant even count how many I have!





Do you always de-string them?

Never tried these before.

I grow both Enorma and Enorma Elite. Can't say I've noticed any significant difference between them, but like them anyway.

[tim]

Same place, hopalong. But I've added another site this year. Gets more sun.

[asbean]

We've picked about 2 kg so far of the runners (The Prizewinner, which we grew a few years ago and were OK, so have tried them again and Galaxy). Lots more to come.  The early French (Speedy) have finished now, and the maincrop (Cobra) have started well, we have about 6kg frozen already.

[hopalong]

Same place, hopalong. But I've added another site this year. Gets more sun.

Thanks Tim.  I expect mine will be as good as yours after another 50 years! They are coming on at last and I am about to gather my first harvest.  I've also got french beans on wigwams on another part of the plot.

[littlebabybird]

i have never grown these before and they are as bad/well good realy as the courgettes, they never stop
for the last weekwe have gone to the lotty every evening to find dinner and picked enough to feed 5 or 6  of us then back the next day ony to find so many more. and there are so many flowers loads more than before
how long will this go on for?
lbb