Connie - Farmgirl #673
Hoosick Falls
NY
USA
2569 Posts
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
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?
Connie - Farmgirl #673
Hoosick Falls
NY
USA
2569 Posts
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.
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!
Beautiful Seed
Posted - Oct 10 2011 : 10:12:25 AM
