Runner beans are usually ready to harvest in July, when the pods reach about 20cm (8") long. Avoid leaving the beans on the plant for too long or they'll turn stringy. Ideally, you should pick beans every day or two to ensure optimum tenderness and remember, the more you pick, the more pods your plants will produce. | GrowVeg

Learn how to make a frame to grow runner beans - and then enter your vegetables into our Autumn Show competition! ⛏ Prepare the ground by clearing the area of any weeds and stones, then rake over to make the area level. 🌿 Push 2 rows of bamboo canes at regular intervals firmly into the soil and join at the top with one long pole - tie each pair of poles to this. 🌱 Plant a runner bean plant at the base of each pole and firm the soil around the plant. Tie the plant in loosely to guide it up the

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Runner beans. Save time and energy next year. No need to sow runner beans seeds next year if you already have them planted this year. Runner beans are actually tender perennials so will re-grow next year from their underground tubers if kept protected from the frosts. So this autumn, instead of pulling up your runner bean plants you can cut your runner bean plants back to ground level, and cover them with a lovely, cosy, warm mulch such as compost. Hopefully the underground tubers will survive t

Try this with your runner (or French) beans. Decadent, crunchy, fresh. The heat of the just-cooked beans collapses the cream into an unctuous sauce. https://www.riverford.co.uk/recipes/runner-beans-clotted-cream-almonds | Riverford