Yes Runners do like to be hosed down, to pretend it's rain like in UK.
Every one I know grows them in UK and no one speaks of tubers in the ground
or to say automatic plants.
My husband say's when he pulls our up at the end of the season, it is just
'root'.
But we do save some of the actual beans from one year to the next for
growing. We never eat them as a bean from inside the pod. qahtan



"Fran" wrote in message
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"Guy Bradley" wrote in message

During the hot summer months, the beans grew and flowered, but set no
beans. Had I not been so lazy, I would have pulled them out for lack
of productivity. But the flowers are so pretty!

Older gardeners round here advice that to improve bean set, hose lightly
at
dusk to cool them.