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Your IP address will be recorded. Log in No account? Create an account. Remember me. Previous Share Flag Next. My new neighbor didn't take me up on my offer of some half-runner bean seeds because she confused half- runners with runner beans. Runner beans are perennial beans with colorful flowers that are usually grown as annuals. They have a fairly small pod with small white beans if you let them go to maturity.
Their growth habit is somewhere between a bush bean and a pole bean. They will send out those tendrils and you can support them. They won't fill a trellis but might get 3 feet or so long so all you need is a low support. Mom grows them like bush beans with no support and does fine. Best I can remember they produce longer than most bush beans but not as long as true pole beans.
Runner beans, pole beans??? The answer is simple Runner beans wear Nikes and Pole beans win the pole vaulting competitions. Joined Mar 21, Messages 5, Reaction score Points What Journey said is absolutely right, and what BayMule said wins the award! And then to add to the confusion, some vulgaris pole beans are called half runners! Half runners vigorously climb, but only like 4 or 5 feet.
I guess the British call Coccineus beans runner beans, and some europeans call those english beans All the wordology is not very specific though. It's just the way convention set things I guess.
You can try an experiment. Grow one plant each of a bunch of different varieties. Grow each plant like a specimen, but give them the same soil, light and water and stuff. Some bush varieties just plain stay small, and if a runner kind of starts off it toward the end of the season, it might go one or 2 nodes and stop. That's what my sangre, turtle, and white rice vulgaris did, and my white baby limas did too. The white rice and turtle bean plants grew similar enough to make me think those 2 varieties are closely related, smallish tough leaves, shape of the plant.
Sangre de Torro made large leaves deep green, very green stems and petioles, and toward the end made a 2 node runner each, that would probably not have wrapped around anything, just neatly laying over the next plant or on a cut down sunflower stump.
Some bush varieties grow actual runners toward the end of the season. Tennessee Green Pod does that. They run up a pole and flower. A few of them went up 5 feet and I'm selecting those separately. Those are not much determinate, and seemed to want to keep growing up to frost, making flowers to the end. Their seeds are also glossier. The Eye of the Tiger selection doing similar long runners do seem determinate though, a fat bud at the end, but wrapping poles.
The poles I used for those were kind of smooth Madrone odd shape twiggy growth sticks. Some pole beans are kind of wild growing and actually flop over on the ground as much as twine their way up. The Rio Zappe grow like that. I got as many pods on the ground as up on their nice course fir sticks. Anasazi, called a bush, grows like that too, but not as high, and their stems are fine, not thick. Join the campaign to reach 1 million food and habitat sites for pollinators.
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