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  • #1

    Is this a record?

    Five years ago my son planted a runner bean in a pot. He soon lost interest in it, but I kept it on the windowsill where it grew happily.

    Five years on it's still looking green and healthy and twining round the curtain rail! Never actually produced any beans though.

    I'd no idea a runner bean could live for more than one season.
    The best things in life are not things.
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  • #2
    Well done you!

    I think in their natural habitat (wherever that may be) they ARE perennial, so you must have emulated this.
    My Majesty made for him a garden anew in order
    to present to him vegetables and all beautiful flowers.- Offerings of Thutmose III to Amon-Ra (1500 BCE)

    Diversify & prosper


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    • #3
      Well I never!
      Granny on the Game in Sheffield

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      • #4
        I know some gardening books have suggested cutting runners down at the end of the season, protecting the roots a little over winter and letting them grow a second season. Could be worth a try in the south.
        Whether you think you can or whether you think you can't, you are probably right.
        Edited: for typo, thakns VC

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        • #5
          I knew someone who cuts back some of his best runner bean plants in the autumn, digs the roots up and stores them in a cool dark frost free place, then grows em on again next spring to get an early crop. He always said that where they originated they grew all year round... how true that is in dont know.
          Roger
          Its Grand to be Daft...

          https://www.youtube.com/user/beauchief1?feature=mhee

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          • #6
            If it was in a race it would be disqualified for being a non -runner

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            • #7
              Yep, they're perennials in warmer climates. I think RustyLady has managed to keep one going for more than a season, in her sheltered lotty site
              All gardeners know better than other gardeners." -- Chinese Proverb.

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              • #8
                It will be interesting to see how much longer my bean will survive!
                The best things in life are not things.

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