When it comes to saving beans like Zebra Pole and Scarlet Runner beans, patience is required. In order to save these beans to store much longer in jars, you need to wait for the pods to completely dry. For us this usually happens right at the end of the season. Pole bean pods are best harvested when it is young and tender. You can also wait for the beans to form and allow the pods to completely turn brown and dry. If you harvest in between when the pods have developed and still green, it will be

Don’t Pull Up your Runner Beans! 🌱🫘 I am always looking for ways to simplify gardening, and for practical ways to save time in the garden. So any plants that I can sow once and then harvest from for multiple years are always very welcome! 😊👍🏻🌱🌱🌱 And runner beans are one of those plants that are generally grown as annuals, but if protected, they can grow back each spring, and produce a crop of runner beans for several years from the same planting. 🌱🫘 I’m in zone 9a and it works well for

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