Eating runner bean beans

[Two_Sheds]

Wayne, you can freeze unripe beans, and save totally dry ones. You can't switch that around.

If your beans aren't fully ripe (brown, crispy pods, beans that are hard to the bite) then they won't be viable for sowing.

[HeyWayne]

So I can't dry pods in the greenhouse?

[Two_Sheds]

Not unless they are "almost there".
I've been drying mine off in the gh, but very few make it to full ripeness

[HeyWayne]

On some of the plants, pods (and I presume the beans within) have fallen to the ground.

I just didn't want them to be frost bitten - which is what happened to quite a few last year.

Pods are well swollen and beans are undeniably visible.

Time will tell I guess.

[Two_Sheds]

On some of the plants, pods (and I presume the beans within) have fallen to the ground.

It's been so wet here that beans have been germinating inside the pods

[summerfruits]

Any good runner bean recipes people can share? I have to say I haven't been enjoying mine very much - but perhaps I've let them get too stringy (not big beans in them I could pod though..?)

[Two_Sheds]

If they're stringy, they'll still be stringy whatever way you cook them ...