Christina Websell wrote:
It's far too risky to have 2 ft tall beans now. Do as my grandfather did,
plant your runner beans on May 8th.
By the time they are up most chance of frost is past.

Well, I was close. Today's 12th. :-)
Planted the first 1/4 of the patch. I meant to do them on Sunday, but we
had a little accident with one of the posts (ie, Nick managed to snap the
whole damned thing!)