"David (Normandy)" wrote in message
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"Mary Fisher" wrote in message
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In article ,
Broadback writes:
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| To maximise crop is it best to pinch out runner beans when they reach
| the top of their poles, or leave them to sort themselves out?

Pinch them out. They will produce new shoots from lower down.


And you have to look at them daily, those tips grow at an astonishing
rate! Think Jack and the Beanstalk.

Mary


Is it really necessary to pinch them out? I've grown runner beans for
years up an elongated wigwam of bamboo canes and never pinched them out.
We always get far too many beans and end up giving lots away to visitors.
It was only last week we finished eating the remains of last years frozen
ones.

It's not necessary but if you're stumpy like me you can't reach the high-up
ones. And if they drape down it's messy, they get tangles with lower ones.

Mary