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Squash64
Hectare
Posts: 4,545
What's your favourite runner bean?
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October 06, 2009, 18:42:48 »
I've grown Armstrong this year. It was ok, but not brilliant.
What is your favourite?
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Betty
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Flighty
Hectare
Posts: 2,680
Re: What's your favourite runner bean?
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October 06, 2009, 18:57:47 »
I reckon
Painted Lady
, which I didn't grow this year but will next!
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manicscousers
Hectare
Posts: 16,474
www.golborne-allotments.co.uk
Re: What's your favourite runner bean?
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October 06, 2009, 19:19:45 »
another vote for painted lady ;D
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asbean
Hectare
Posts: 3,411
Winchester, Hants
Re: What's your favourite runner bean?
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Reply #3 on:
October 06, 2009, 19:22:31 »
We grow Prizewinner - it's a winner for us. But we're not too fussed about runners, we give most of them away, and everyone says how lovely they are.
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The Tuscan Beaneater
angle shades
Hectare
Posts: 1,532
Lincoln,Lincolnshire
Re: What's your favourite runner bean?
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Reply #4 on:
October 06, 2009, 19:27:41 »
:) I always grow Scarlet Emperor and this year a new variety St George which is very tasty/ shades x
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Eristic
Hectare
Posts: 1,824
NW London (Brent)
Re: What's your favourite runner bean?
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Reply #5 on:
October 06, 2009, 20:52:26 »
My favourite is Red Flame. It will never win in the longest bean category but is stringless until old and is of good taste.
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Dadnlad
Acre
Posts: 277
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Re: What's your favourite runner bean?
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Reply #6 on:
October 06, 2009, 21:02:39 »
Lady Di for us, tasty and consistently stringless
But might also try 'Moonlight' next year - supposedly crossed with a french bean ?
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Rhubarb Thrasher
Hectare
Posts: 2,713
Dark Side Of The Rhubarb
Re: What's your favourite runner bean?
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Reply #7 on:
October 06, 2009, 21:07:49 »
Prizewinner was good for us - at least, better tasting than saved seed mongrels we usually grow
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aggie
Half Acre
Posts: 140
Re: What's your favourite runner bean?
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October 06, 2009, 21:34:44 »
I grow Scarlet Emperor which was good, but the Enorma was excellent with a very high yield, and I'm still picking them ;D ;D ;D I will defiantly grow them again next year.
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Suzanne
Hectare
Posts: 1,507
sun is shining
Re: What's your favourite runner bean?
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October 06, 2009, 21:42:15 »
Grew some Streamline this year, has been good and still picking.
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GrannieAnnie
Hectare
Posts: 3,017
in Delaware, USA growing zone 6 or 7
Re: What's your favourite runner bean?
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Reply #10 on:
October 06, 2009, 22:06:12 »
A purple Italian bean that produces in part shade and earlier than greenies.
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saddad
Hectare
Posts: 17,898
Derby, Derbyshire (Strange, but true!)
Re: What's your favourite runner bean?
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Reply #11 on:
October 06, 2009, 22:09:25 »
I'm another Painted Lady fan... for the two tone flowers. Grew Sunset one year and really liked the "peach" flowers. :)
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tonybloke
Hectare
Posts: 5,811
Gorleston 0n sea, Norfolk
Re: What's your favourite runner bean?
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Reply #12 on:
October 06, 2009, 23:45:42 »
'painted lady' and 'best of all', own saved seed for a few yrs now
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flowerofshona2007
Hectare
Posts: 985
Flowerofshona
Re: What's your favourite runner bean?
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Reply #13 on:
October 06, 2009, 23:57:26 »
Has to be Enorma ! big beans with good taste, grown them for years now.
Might try the St George as well this year.
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Ninnyscrops.
Hectare
Posts: 1,581
downtoearth
Re: What's your favourite runner bean?
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October 07, 2009, 13:39:35 »
Scarlet Emperor for 5 seasons now ;)
Ninny
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norfolklass
Hectare
Posts: 1,036
Norwich - a fine city
Re: What's your favourite runner bean?
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Reply #15 on:
October 07, 2009, 14:52:17 »
White Lady ('related' to Painted Lady?) - lovely tender stringless beans, even when they've grown a bit big
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PurpleHeather
Hectare
Posts: 2,894
Re: What's your favourite runner bean?
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October 07, 2009, 15:25:50 »
They all taste the same to me. Been growing them for donkeys years, the trick is to pick them all when they are ready just before they get too big and they will keep on flowering and producing more. Don't pick just enough for a meal..Had them until December one year because it was mild.
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valmarg
Hectare
Posts: 2,365
Re: What's your favourite runner bean?
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Reply #17 on:
October 07, 2009, 19:10:32 »
Red Rum. early and very prolific. White Lady - very good cropper. And the most important thing - they both taste delicious.
valmarg
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colt
Quarter Acre
Posts: 60
Re: What's your favourite runner bean?
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Reply #18 on:
October 08, 2009, 23:13:10 »
White lady for me grown them for 4 years now. Have grown them in pots on the patio and now in the ground and had great crops using both methods. I even put them in our local show and got 1st prize, picture below is what i put in the show.
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powerspade
Hectare
Posts: 513
Re: What's your favourite runner bean?
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Reply #19 on:
October 09, 2009, 05:35:47 »
Scarlet Emporer for me, I tried Enorma for 3 years but had poor yealds
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