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Alabama

can anyone help me with any really long runner bean seeds (30")?

2/9/2012 12:35:22 AM

Linden, Mi.,

E/BAY - I found some

2/9/2012 11:06:31 AM

Owensboro, Ky.

p.bell...in my seed exchange (Engle's) box there is a pack of Liana Beans from 2011. I know nothing about them, but certainly look like long beans!!! Let me know if ya want em!!! Peace, Wayne

2/9/2012 10:06:19 PM

Menomonie, WI (mail@gr8pumpkin.net)

I think the long runner beans he is referring to are wide flat beans that look like a huge ribbon.

2/10/2012 2:07:06 PM

Alabama

Yes Linus Van Pelt, that is what I'm looking for not yard long.

2/10/2012 6:57:36 PM

Netherlands

Yard Long Beans are not beans at all. They are members of the pea family. Spaghetti and asparagus beans, same story. Not beans.

2/11/2012 12:07:05 PM

Owensboro, Ky.

Brad, if taken to a State, or County Fair & entered in the long bean contest...would they win? Just curious? I am sure you have heard the story...if it looks like a bean, and quacks like a bean??? Know what I mean? LOL Peace, Wayne Brad, is there a true long bean?

2/12/2012 12:15:32 AM

Netherlands

Oh ya, I am sure many a county fair will take it and win. Don't try it at the Alaska State Fair though. The only acceptable long bean is a runner bean. It is thick/flat and generally grows twisted (there are tricks to flatten them out) and has about 6 beans (seeds) inside.

Too many common names fool people though. Just like a geranium is not a geranium at all but a pergoleum. Yard long cucumbers are melons and yard long beans are peas while Atlantic giant pumpkins are squash.

2/13/2012 4:34:59 AM