[mattwragg94]

ive never grown dwarf runners before, have any of you grown them before? how did they grow? how productive where they?

im only askin as i bought a packet of seeds in last years sales.

thanks,
matt

[Yorkie]

I've not grown hestia but generally, my dwarf beans have produced well.

[mattwragg94]

oh i never realised there where more than one variety of dwarf runners - i only know of hestia!

[Yorkie]

Ah, slight mis-read of question  .  I was referring to dwarf beans, not dwarf runners.

[sunshineband]

My brother grew dwarf runners last year in a tub and had a fair crop for the size of the plants --- not as heavy as taller beans would have of course but kept him going with a meal or two a week and some for the freezer

[New shoot]

I've done a display container at work of them just to liven up the veg bench and they were pretty good given the size of them, but as Sunny says, nowhere as prolific as the normal kind.  Can't tell you much about the taste except they can't have been bad because customers munched them as soon as they got to any size  

[mattwragg94]

ah i was just about to ask whether you where on about frech beans yorkie!

well i thought i could grow them at the base of my runner beans, and also try some in pots!

[sunshineband]

I grow courgettes at the base of my runners, about two feet away.

There are always beans low down later in the season too 

[mattwragg94]

yeh i had cougettes there last year, i might try both

[Nikkithefoot]

I have grown Hestia in the past, but found the beans kept trailing in the dirt as soon as they got to a decent size. Something which dwarf French beans don't seem to do.

They are very good if space is tight, and they do better in pots compared with runners, not so prolific but its a balance.