Kitchen Garden Forum

I have that many runner beans can't use them all up, freezer full, my neighbour must have had too many as she says she don't cook every day, so my question is if I leave them on the plant to form seeds/beans can I dry them and store for winter use in stews and casseroles? I will be saving some for next years seed.
Bren

Dear Bren, reading from your other thread on your runner beans maybe being diseased, i might be tempted to buy new seed just incase.
The beans on our allotment are suffering the same sort of problem, so i will be purchasing new seed.

Hope you don't think i'm just being an a ogre.

Thanks OH, I am glad of any advice, as its my first year in charge of the vegatable growing, so its new seeds next year no point in wasting a years work with diseased seed. Can I compost these plants or would it be better to bag them and take them to the tip?.
If my memory serves me right it was you OH who answered a query I had early in the year about Pink Fir Apple potatoes not chitting, you said they should be ok to plant which I did, yesterday my son dug them out and its the best crop of them we ever had, a few of them were big funny shapes 8
or 9 sides to them every eye must have sprouted.
Bren

Dear Bren, if at all possible i would get rid of the runner bean tops, just to be on the safe side.

If grown well, Pink fir apple potatoes do get to a large size with many sides, this is why they went out of favour with cook.