"Carol Hague" wrote in message
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I was chatting with one of the other allotment holders yesterday and he
mentioned that he'd been told by someone else not to put his runner
beans out until June because there are beetles which live on the
rapeseed which will strip the young beans if they're out at the same
time as the rapeseed crop.

Anyone else ever heard of this?

No, rape is a very different plant from beans. The rape beetle doesn't even
chew the rape blossom, it eats the pollen.

It would be very difficult to find a time from spring to autumn when there
isn't some rape around.

Mary