Scarlett runner bean seeds

This listing is for 10+ organically grown scarlet runner bean seeds.

How would you like a plant that can be eaten as a green bean, picked while the beans are still immature like green beans, or wait till the end of autumn and pick the mature beans to use like any other dried beans?

Not only does the Scarlet Runner Bean pay the rent in the garden by producing lots of beans, but it is an attractive plant with pretty red flowers that attracts hummingbirds. As a bonus the beans are a stylish black and pink colour.

Unique, easy to grow, pole bean widely grown for its beautiful scarlet red blossoms. Needs support. An added bonus is that the green beans are edible.

Scarlet Runner loves to climb. They are perennials though are treated as annuals, and have starchy, edible roots. Their young leaves and flowers are eaten as well as their beans.

Like most beans the Scarlet Runner Bean contains small amounts of the lectin phytohaemagglutinin. The highest amount is in uncooked red kidney beans. Its toxic in large amounts which is why kidney beans are always long-cooked. As few as five raw kidney beans can cause symptoms such as losing fluids and feeling lousy for four or five hours. While there are many people who report they eat Scarlet Runner Beans seeds raw, it is a good practice to cook them. The young pods before beans truly develop are eaten raw.

Like most beans the scarlet runner (or red runner, Phaseolus coccineus) prefers the ground to be warmed up before you plant it, so it's no use planting the bean too early in the spring. scarlet runner beans are so vigorous that you can plant them directly in the ground, no need to start them inside. Scarlet Runner beans are annuals so you need to plant every year.

Scarlet runners are very enthusiastic plants they can grow up to 3 meters high so they need something to support them. They are so pretty that people often plant them on a trellis in the flower garden