Red climbing beans?

[Scarlet]

My cherokee trail of tears beans are most definitely BLACK

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#note to self! check first !

[Guest]

Oops!

#note to self! check first !

Put it down to VC's December Fools Day

I better go and hide before VC finds me

[Zelenina]

Maybe there's a language problem and they mean Scarlet Runners?

Possibly Martin, but I don't think so - they don't really use runners over here (only the Brits anyway )

I've been browsing a few French seed sites recently (suprised how much of my high school French I remember), and it looks like the French do grow runner beans. They call them haricot d'Espagne (Spanish beans).

But like almost everyone except us Brits they don't usually eat the pods. They grow them either for the decorative flowers or for the beans inside the pods. French people seem to prefer large white-seeded runner varieties for cooking. We often call them butterbeans, although sometimes butterbeans are white Lima beans instead.

And I've noticed that all the drying beans in Polish catalogues are white, whether Frenchies or runners. But Slovaks are happy to eat a cheerful multicoloured assortment.

[Two_Sheds]

Canadian wonder, true cranberry or Cherreokee trail of tears are all French beans with a red coloured bean once dried.

No, Cherokee are black, and small

True Cranberry is a lovely deep maroon, fat oval shape

Madeira Maroon are more kidney shaped, dark red with fleckles