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Growing => Grow Your Own => Topic started by: Anton on June 10, 2021, 15:44

Title: Difference between runner beanss and dwarf beans
Post by: Anton on June 10, 2021, 15:44

Help please. I thought I would be clever and sew one row with one sort of dwarf beanand another row with another.
I also sowed two different sorts in pots to put in the spaces of two rows of beans I sowed  earlier but not all came up.  After these grew a bit I planted them in the spaces.

And therein lies the rub. Today I discovered I had been using one packet of  dwarf beans and another packet of "runner beans" by mistake.

I suppose I can transplant the  runner beans to teepees after a certain stage but I would like to do this quite quickly so I sow some more dwarf beans. So does anyone know how to tell the difference between a runner beans and a dwarf bean in the early stages. Please

Title: Re: Difference between runner beanss and dwarf beans
Post by: Anton on June 10, 2021, 15:54

I should add they are climbing beans not the perennial sort of bean that grows year after year.
My confusion between the two packets is because the are written in Dutch and I got mixed up between struikbonene (dwarf beans) and stakbonen (climbing or runner beans).

Title: Re: Difference between runner beanss and dwarf beans
Post by: Yorkie on June 10, 2021, 20:06

I think the climbing beans are fairly obvious fairly early on, in that they have a longer twining stem that keeps growing.  That being said, I've known dwarf beans that are taller than I expected (still dwarf but perhaps 2 feet tall rather than 18") so you might just need to wait another week or so, maybe

Title: Re: Difference between runner beanss and dwarf beans
Post by: Redcoat on June 10, 2021, 21:24

You may see a difference in the size and shape of the leaves; runners tend to be a little larger.4

Title: Re: Difference between runner beanss and dwarf beans
Post by: Anton on June 10, 2021, 21:33

Thanks very much for these tips everyone.