Runner Beans.
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I am wondering how many of you are still harvesting runner beans,mine are still coming in fact I am having a better yield now than I were having at the end of August and September,they taste better and are longer, less stingy,and they are still coming I am just hoping that we don't get any frosts in the next week or two.
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My question is: when does the season start? I have not grown them for several years but expected to have been cropping by now.
Sowed Scarlet Empeor end May, planted out early June. Very hot . I did water.
July very wet weather. No flowers until August.
Now lots of flowers at the top, above 2m, but not setting well. A very few ca 1-2in only. I've not seen many pollinators at the beans, though lots on the flowers in a diifferent part of the garden.
Very lush foliage and we’ve hardly watered, but we do prepare the site very well each year with a pit or trench of half-rotted material from the compost heaps.