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| naturemaiden |
Posted - Oct 10 2011 : 10:12:25 AM
I wanted to share this pic with you. I've been harvesting various seed from my gardens. Here are some scarlet runner string bean seed I just harvested, the coloring is beautiful! These seed will provide our bean plants for next spring
connie
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| naturemaiden |
Posted - Oct 12 2011 : 11:04:02 AM
no special soil other than what you'd use for anything else in the garden. I order from johnny seed but their out of stock right now. http://www.johnnyseeds.com/c-101-scarlet-runner-bean.aspx
Also: http://www.burpee.com/vegetables/beans/runner/bean-scarlet-runner-pole-prod000599.html
your local garden center would probably have them too.
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| marthajane |
Posted - Oct 12 2011 : 10:30:27 AM
Wow Incr-Edible!
Thats just beautiful=thanks for sharing those...I have never tried them, i'll have to get some!
does it take a special kind of soil to grow them?
if I get them growing one day i will most certainly store some for food..thats coolness
thanks again this was fun!
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| naturemaiden |
Posted - Oct 12 2011 : 02:18:48 AM
Hi Martha, here is a pic of the flowers (not my pic though)
Scarlet runner beans are edible. They grow large long string beans. I often refer to them as 'jack in the beanstalk' beans because the plants grow so tall. I grew these plants once up a bamboo teepee. I used 6 six foot bamboo poles..put 6 seed around each pole..and the plants grew several feet up beyond that! I had a great pic of me inside the teepee (but I cant find it). It grew so beautiful and dense. I would imagine that you could easily grow these bean plants up a fence, or tree...not sure how many you would need. I dont know if they would do well as a cut flowers, but hey, you never know. They might look great in a vase among some wild flowers. This year i grew them about 1 foot apart and the plants completly filled in...and the red flowers attract hummingbirds. They would look beautiful growing up a large trellise on the side of the house.
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| marthajane |
Posted - Oct 11 2011 : 07:32:25 AM
well those are just beautiful
do you have any pictures of the flowers?
do you cut the flowers,
how tall do the plants get,
how many do you need for a privacy screen?
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| naturemaiden |
Posted - Oct 11 2011 : 12:47:40 AM
these beans are..but i grow the plants because they create such a great privacy barrier and beautiful red flowers
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| marthajane |
Posted - Oct 10 2011 : 6:25:06 PM
those are absolutely beautiful
ive never seen that, are they edible?
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