{"id":3610,"date":"2013-09-28T21:16:35","date_gmt":"2013-09-28T19:16:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/foodiesgarden.net\/?p=3610"},"modified":"2013-09-28T21:19:08","modified_gmt":"2013-09-28T19:19:08","slug":"sowing-growing-and-harvesting-runner-beans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/foodiesgarden.net\/?p=3610","title":{"rendered":"sowing, growing and harvesting: runner beans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/foodiesgarden.net\/wp-uploads\/2013\/08\/runner-beans.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3611\" alt=\"runner beans\" src=\"http:\/\/foodiesgarden.net\/wp-uploads\/2013\/08\/runner-beans.jpg\" width=\"2848\" height=\"4288\" srcset=\"http:\/\/foodiesgarden.net\/wp-uploads\/2013\/08\/runner-beans.jpg 2848w, http:\/\/foodiesgarden.net\/wp-uploads\/2013\/08\/runner-beans-199x300.jpg 199w, http:\/\/foodiesgarden.net\/wp-uploads\/2013\/08\/runner-beans-680x1024.jpg 680w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2848px) 100vw, 2848px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>if you have a piece of land you can grow your own beans, absolutely nothing can go wrong. no pests and no enemies as far as i know. and if you choose a thread-free cultivation you will be happy with your beans in mediterranean salads, asian wok-dishes or as a side to a good piece of beef.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>if you choose the low-growing french beans there will be nothing to do despite sowing in early spring. if you decided to have runner beans you have to build a kind of growing assistance. this kind of beans are good if you don&#8217;t have that much space and if you don&#8217;t want to bend down while harvesting. such a growing assistance can be some larger bamboo sticks, tied together to a kind of tent or tipi.<\/p>\n<p>beans also\u00a0need space between each other. i reccomend about 50 cm between the rows and in the row. make 2-3 cm deep holes in that distance and pour in 3-4 beans in each hole. if you start in april or may, you will be ready to harvest end of june or july.<\/p>\n<p>it is a good idea not to sow all your beans at once but leave 2 weeks between. this will extend the period of harvest and don&#8217;t have them all at once.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>if you have a piece of land you can grow your own beans, absolutely nothing can go wrong. no pests and no enemies as far as i know. and if you choose a thread-free cultivation you will be happy with &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/foodiesgarden.net\/?p=3610\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,10,11],"tags":[54,124],"class_list":["post-3610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-gardening","category-spring","category-summer","tag-french-beans","tag-runner-beans","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/foodiesgarden.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/foodiesgarden.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/foodiesgarden.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/foodiesgarden.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/foodiesgarden.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3610"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/foodiesgarden.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3806,"href":"http:\/\/foodiesgarden.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3610\/revisions\/3806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/foodiesgarden.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/foodiesgarden.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/foodiesgarden.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}