These are Enorma runner beans. Last year my entire crop was chewed through at the base of the plant by the resident vole family, so I upped sticks (well bamboos) and moved them onto plot number 2, right dead centre. Sowed the seeds, 2 per pot, in the greenhouse mid April, planted out the first week of May and left them to it. There is some blackfly present, but I have been squishing as I see them, and there are now baby beans right at the base of the plants. I fear a glut of runners and the neighbours hiding from me when I try to give away bag fulls! ;D
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EJ. I am growing a few Enorma (one single row) they are not quite as forward as yours but they have certainly come on in the past week. My sister-in-law will not grow any other variety. She just grows in large pots, very small garden.
How many do you plant per pole E-J? ::)
2 SS. One for me, one for the slugs, altho they weren't interested in them this year! Bumper harvest me thinks. ;D