Hi all, Has anyone grown Scarlet Runner Beans & if so what are the pros &
cons of growing them. Most important pro being do they taste good??. Thanks
for your input. John

wrote:
> Hi all, Has anyone grown Scarlet Runner Beans & if so what are the pros &
> cons of growing them. Most important pro being do they taste good??. Thanks
> for your input. John

check with rec.gardens.edible and/or rec.gardens

i've not grown them here yet. had them on my list
to get this year but skipped that item accidentally
when i put my order in.


songbird

On 4/7/2012 7:08 PM, wrote:
> Hi all, Has anyone grown Scarlet Runner Beans& if so what are the pros&
> cons of growing them. Most important pro being do they taste good??. Thanks
> for your input. John
We grew them on a teepee one year for the grandkids to play in. They
taste a lot like green beans and are cooked like green beans. They are a
climbing bean and they will climb a lot, be sure you keep an eye on them
or they will take over your garden. I grew them again one year and had
them on a four-foot high hurricane fence, they looked really nice there
and got a lot of sunshine and produced well.

On Sun, 8 Apr 2012 00:08:32 GMT, wrote:

>Hi all, Has anyone grown Scarlet Runner Beans & if so what are the pros &
>cons of growing them. Most important pro being do they taste good??. Thanks
>for your input. John

My favourite "green bean". We grow them on several tepees made from
six 8-foot bamboo stakes tied at the top. Not the greatest producer in
our experience but, picked early, flavour makes up for that. Beans are
more flat than round and not as smooth as regular green beans.
Humminbirds love the blossoms.
OB preserving. We blanch and freeze as many as we can after I've eaten
my fill of fresh-picked.

Ross.

On 4/8/2012 9:34 AM, Ross@home wrote:
> On Sun, 8 Apr 2012 00:08:32 GMT, wrote:
>
>> Hi all, Has anyone grown Scarlet Runner Beans& if so what are the pros&
>> cons of growing them. Most important pro being do they taste good??. Thanks
>> for your input. John
>
> My favourite "green bean". We grow them on several tepees made from
> six 8-foot bamboo stakes tied at the top. Not the greatest producer in
> our experience but, picked early, flavour makes up for that. Beans are
> more flat than round and not as smooth as regular green beans.
> Humminbirds love the blossoms.
> OB preserving. We blanch and freeze as many as we can after I've eaten
> my fill of fresh-picked.
>
> Ross.
I've done the scarlet runners that way and have also pressure canned
them, all with good results.

We're harvesting the last of the winter carrots today plus some spring
green peas. Easter dinner is a small ham with pineapple slices and
maraschino cherries (shades of the forties and fifties), carrots and
peas cooked together with carrots and dill, baked sweet potatoes and a
nice loaf of home made bread. We have ginger snaps I made two days ago
with fresh grated ginger, ground ginger, and candied ginger. In addition
my lovely wife made kumquat cookies yesterday. We have a friend coming
over at noon for our dinner so we put the festive table cloth on this
morning.

wrote:
> Hi all, Has anyone grown Scarlet Runner Beans & if so what are the pros &
> cons of growing them. Most important pro being do they taste good??. Thanks
> for your input. John


They taste really good (one of the best) even when you let them get too
big and they look like they ought to be tough. They don't produce as
heavily as other pole beans. The bright red flowers are interesting and
kind of pretty.

I've never tried canning or freezing them.

-Bob

On 4/8/2012 7:50 PM, zxcvbob wrote:
> wrote:
>> Hi all, Has anyone grown Scarlet Runner Beans & if so what are the pros &
>> cons of growing them. Most important pro being do they taste good??.
>> Thanks
>> for your input. John
>
>
> They taste really good (one of the best) even when you let them get too
> big and they look like they ought to be tough. They don't produce as
> heavily as other pole beans. The bright red flowers are interesting and
> kind of pretty.
>
> I've never tried canning or freezing them.
>
> -Bob
Pretty much like green beans Bob. Might grow some more after we move.
Will be closer to the great grands and can build some bamboo teepees for
the beans to climb.

On Sun, 08 Apr 2012 20:47:29 -0500, George Shirley
> wrote:

>On 4/8/2012 7:50 PM, zxcvbob wrote:
>> wrote:
>>> Hi all, Has anyone grown Scarlet Runner Beans & if so what are the pros &
>>> cons of growing them. Most important pro being do they taste good??.
>>> Thanks
>>> for your input. John
>>
>>
>> They taste really good (one of the best) even when you let them get too
>> big and they look like they ought to be tough. They don't produce as
>> heavily as other pole beans. The bright red flowers are interesting and
>> kind of pretty.
>>
>> I've never tried canning or freezing them.
>>
>> -Bob
>Pretty much like green beans Bob. Might grow some more after we move.
>Will be closer to the great grands and can build some bamboo teepees for
>the beans to climb.

E-Z T-P
Six 8- foot bamboo poles.
An old bicycle inner tube cut into lengthwise strips.
Tie bamboo poles all together near the top with inner tube strips.
Plenty of give in the inner tube strips to spead the poles apart into
teepee shape yet hold them solidly together for the whole season.
http://tinypic.com/r/33za4j9/5

Ross.

On 4/9/2012 8:36 AM, Ross@home wrote:
> On Sun, 08 Apr 2012 20:47:29 -0500, George Shirley
> > wrote:
>
>> On 4/8/2012 7:50 PM, zxcvbob wrote:
>>> wrote:
>>>> Hi all, Has anyone grown Scarlet Runner Beans& if so what are the pros&
>>>> cons of growing them. Most important pro being do they taste good??.
>>>> Thanks
>>>> for your input. John
>>>
>>>
>>> They taste really good (one of the best) even when you let them get too
>>> big and they look like they ought to be tough. They don't produce as
>>> heavily as other pole beans. The bright red flowers are interesting and
>>> kind of pretty.
>>>
>>> I've never tried canning or freezing them.
>>>
>>> -Bob
>> Pretty much like green beans Bob. Might grow some more after we move.
>> Will be closer to the great grands and can build some bamboo teepees for
>> the beans to climb.
>
> E-Z T-P
> Six 8- foot bamboo poles.
> An old bicycle inner tube cut into lengthwise strips.
> Tie bamboo poles all together near the top with inner tube strips.
> Plenty of give in the inner tube strips to spead the poles apart into
> teepee shape yet hold them solidly together for the whole season.
> http://tinypic.com/r/33za4j9/5
>
> Ross.
Are those price tags on the bamboo Ross? Around this part of the south
you just go by someone's bamboo patch and ask permission to cut poles.
My chiropractor has a patch behind his office. We get bean and tomato
poles there when we need them. Pull them out of the ground at the end of
the season and put them away for next use. We do have to dry them on a
rack before using as the green ones will make roots and start growing.

Lots of folks that live along busy highways plant them along their
frontage to cut down on traffic noise. Running bamboo can become very
invasive it you don't mow around it regularly and keep a watch for
runners sprouting.

Thanks for the help all. I'm heading to the seed store to get some right
now. John

In article >,
wrote:

> Hi all, Has anyone grown Scarlet Runner Beans & if so what are the pros &
> cons of growing them. Most important pro being do they taste good??. Thanks
> for your input. John

Ask at the gardening group, John. I believe it's rec.gardens.edible.
--
Barb,
http://web.me.com/barbschaller September 5, 2011

The Scarlett Runner Beans I had last Summer bloomed all summer long, great flowers, so pretty. But no pods appeared until the weather started to get a little cooler near autumn.

In article >,
RussianFoodDire > wrote:

> The Scarlett Runner Beans I had last Summer bloomed all summer long,
> great flowers, so pretty. But no pods appeared until the weather started
> to get a little cooler near autumn.

I wonder if there was a problem with pollinators. Was there a lot of
pesticide spraying in your area?

--
Woodworking and more at <http://www.woodenwabbits.com>

On Sun, 8 Apr 2012 00:08:32 GMT, wrote:

>Hi all, Has anyone grown Scarlet Runner Beans & if so what are the pros &
>cons of growing them. Most important pro being do they taste good??. Thanks
>for your input. John

Yup, they're a decent addition to any garden. the younger pods can be
cooked like green beans, and late in the season the remaining pods can
be shelled to make dried storage beans. Flavor's ok. I'd like to put
some in, but the seeds are hard to find here in Gulf Coast Texas.

Don't know of any cons. they are attractive and tasty, and easy to
grow if you feed them well.

Alex

On 5/2/2012 2:35 PM, Chemiker wrote:
> On Sun, 8 Apr 2012 00:08:32 GMT, wrote:
>
>> Hi all, Has anyone grown Scarlet Runner Beans& if so what are the pros&
>> cons of growing them. Most important pro being do they taste good??. Thanks
>> for your input. John
>
> Yup, they're a decent addition to any garden. the younger pods can be
> cooked like green beans, and late in the season the remaining pods can
> be shelled to make dried storage beans. Flavor's ok. I'd like to put
> some in, but the seeds are hard to find here in Gulf Coast Texas.
>
> Don't know of any cons. they are attractive and tasty, and easy to
> grow if you feed them well.
>
> Alex
Here in SW Louisiana I always had to order the seed from somewhere else,
same thing when we grew them in SE Texas. Never tried them when we lived
in Houston area or Corpus Christi.

George
R.O.F.T. (Retired Oil Field Trash)