After working in a garden today clearing up i found these in a pod, about to be thrown on the fire heap. Obviously some sort of bean but any ideas which, i have never grown beans before so have no idea how different they all look or if you can tell them apart at all?
:-[
cheers Laura
http://i243.photobucket.com/albums/ff91/CHUBSIESMUM/ALLOTMENT/DSC02599.jpg
It wont load Laura..... ???
how about this?
(http://i243.photobucket.com/albums/ff91/CHUBSIESMUM/ALLOTMENT/DSC02599.jpg)
A lovely big white box with a pretty icon in the left hand corner ;)
Oh ???
Ah well, back to the drawing board them :-[
Does this work?
http://s243.photobucket.com/albums/ff91/CHUBSIESMUM/ALLOTMENT/
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Looks like a runner bean
I have a pink flowered runner bean that I grow that looks the same.No idea of the name as someone gave them to me.
Thanks for replies!
I got some hunter beans from a kind A4A member last year they are a lot smaller and no spots, and the runner beans i have got are celebration and they are dark purple with spots?
Dont know if yo can see clearly in picture but they are more cream than white with brown specks?
Petera : will do search for runner beans (just assumed they were all purple :-[) thanks
Tom was right, it was me. I downloaded a link to resize pictures that was posted in the gallery. Its been deleted now and I can see ALL your piccies ;D
Glad you got your answer ok........as I didn't have a clue :D
I looks like one of several true runner beans, might grow tall might be a dwarf but I bet it is a runner,you wouldn't know what size till it started to grow. If you grew it you might recognise the variety from the flowers, bright red or red and white, purple etc.
Plant them and see, it will put tendrils out before you have to put it outside so you will know of it is a tall or dwarf variety.
XX Jeannine
Pretty sure it is a climber as i can from a very dried up plant over an arch, do bean cross polinate?
Runner Beans
BORLOTTI !!
(...that was a bit like shouting "BINGO" you unnderstand ) ;D
Lishka
Runner beans will cross pollinate...
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Runner beans - I agree with the others!!
Old Bird
;D
I've just cleared some barlotti, look mighty similar, i'm with A.M .
I vote for runners :D
My red flowing runner seeds look exactky like that.
thanks all.
After doing a google image search on runner beans they seem to look very much like painted lady
.....just checked my packet of saved seeds.....my Painted Ladies are of darker hue 8)......still sticking with Borlotti ....dried some & made a bracelet for the grand last year.....still look just like that ;D
Whatever.....a bean they are!...have fun growing them - oh! and post a pic of the produce, won't you?
They look very like my painted lady runners from years ago
http://www.seedambassadors.org/Images/paintedlady1.jpg (http://www.seedambassadors.org/Images/paintedlady1.jpg)