Alan Titmarch Ate My Cat
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Up early - frost dutyI was up in the garden at 6am this morning in my slippers checking my runner beans hadn't been hit by the frost. Neighbours must have thought I was cuckoo.
I've got 60 odd runner bean plants out and today I put a skirting of plastic/glass to protect them in case of frost. It would break my heart to lose these to the frost.
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sean
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Thankyou for sharing.
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nettie
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Hmm. My neighbours caught me harvesting nettles in the lane, I did get some odd looks 
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Behemoth
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60 hells bells you like your beans!
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judith
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| nettie wrote: | | Hmm. My neighbours caught me harvesting nettles in the lane, I did get some odd looks |
Were you in your slippers too, Nettie?
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Alan Titmarch Ate My Cat
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| Behemoth wrote: | | 60 hells bells you like your beans! |
60 in the garden
60-90 in the allotment, to be planted out soon
60 in one of my sibling's garden in about a fortnight
You could say it was possibly an addiction 
Never waste a bean. The last batch of beans are left to hang a lot longer for seeds for the next growing season.
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Treacodactyl
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DO you have any good recipes for 'em?
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Alan Titmarch Ate My Cat
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| Treacodactyl wrote: | | DO you have any good recipes for 'em? |
Alas, I prefer to cook runner beans very simply when they are young.
Runner Beans a la butter, first beans cooked lightly, add a little pepper and salted butter
Runner Beans go very well with a few choice strips of bacon.
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whitelegg1
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OH loves runner bean chutney
Make the most of your glut of runner beans by bottling this delicious chutney
Ingredients:
2 lb. (900g) runner beans. sliced
2 lb. (900g) demerera sugar
one and a half pints vinegar
1.5lbs. (675g) onions, peeled and chopped
one and a half tbsps. cornflour
half a tsp. salt
1 tsp. turmeric
1 tsp. dry mustard
Cooking Instructions:
Cook the beans in salted water till just soft
Cook the onions in half a pint of vinegar until just soft
Place the beans, onions and sugar in a pan together with the remaining vinegar and boil for 15 minutes
Mix the mustard, turmeric, salt and cornflour with a small amount of cold water and add to the pan
Bring to the boil and cook for a further 15 minutes
Allow to cool before bottling
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Bugs
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I tried a recipe on the BBC site once which I've subsequently found in an Elizabeth David book...it's hardly a recipe but it tastes much better than the sum of its parts - runner beans lightly cooked then mixed with chopped tomatoes and crushed garlic, S&P, and just cooked until hot, to be served hot warm or cold as you like.
Only tried it once, last year's runners went nowhere (I'm down to 13 seed of TD's mum's years-old seed!) but will definitely be doing it again.
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bernie-woman
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Runner beans are the only vegetable that I will not eat - the slimy texture inside the bean is the devils work  The thought of growing that many beans is making me feel queasy
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Gertie
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Re: Up early - frost duty | Alan Titmarch Ate My Cat wrote: | I was up in the garden at 6am this morning in my slippers checking my runner beans hadn't been hit by the frost. Neighbours must have thought I was cuckoo.
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What, just your slippers, it wouldn't be my runner beans I would be worried about being hit by the frost!
By the way, hi 
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