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;D I'm wondering if the secret to your successful harvest is the lack of weeds ??? as mine are choking on them :o ;D

Hahaha, hehehe, hoehoehoe.

Wonderfully healthy - do you water, Ina?

what lovely healthy plants

No I don't water them Tim, except when it's really, really dry.

Fabulous!  Puts my weedy specimens to shame!

Wonderful Ina - very impressive - makes my little wigwam look a bit insignificant ;D..............but I thought beans needed loads of water ???

I heard runner beans need lots of water, french beans too? Well these do fine without but like I said before, once they are flowering and it hasn't rained for a long time I sometimes give them some when the weather is hot and they start looking droopy. Usually I don't water them. I don't do much watering at all in the lottie.

I would say runners need a lot of water to grow  well and keep tender.
Mine gets a lot . I try never to let them dry out.

Look at all them beans! Fantastic.
On my picture, all the way on the right, you can also see painted ladies runner beans. After all the talk about them on this board, I ordered them from England, this is my first time growing them. They are just starting with harvest size beans and yesterday we had our first meal of them, very good they are too. A couple had hidden themselves from me and were too far gone, I could feel it while cutting so onto the compost with them. I have to be more careful to catch them young.
I will give them water then.

Ina and Growmore your beans look so healthy, mine are doing sooooo badly this year, only got teeny weeny little beans so far on the few plants that survived. Sigh....next year will be better :)

So, Growmore, why have you not picked them? Getting overdue??

Our prob is that we pay for our water.

Our luck is that we use the water out of the canal (ditch) that borders our lottie on anything we don't eat raw. It's free.

Tim, We have eaten loads but these beans will go to 2ft or rmore and still stay tender
and snap cleanly...Jim

Oooohhhhhhhhhh, name please.

Sorry Ina they havn't got a name .
We have had them for a few years now .We got them from a Guy in Ashington Newcastle way..
We saw them in a show and afterwards we saw some guys in a cafe who had been exhibiting  in the show.
One of them Said "if you come up here next week I will let you have some of those runner bean seed..
SO we went up the next week a 260 mile round trip and true to his word he gave us some ..He gave us 4 beans.Yes 4 beans but we grew them  the year after and now have quite a few of them as we save seed every year...
I would have sent some to you if you had been in UK but I dont know procedure for sending em abroad ,,Cheers Jim.

It doesn't matter. I found your story very interesting anyway.