General information and discussion about cultivating beans, peas, peanuts, clover and vetch.
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Here are a few pictures of Insuk's Wang Kong runner beans that I started from seed this spring. I started 12 seeds in cups and all germinated. I planted some in my GH to grow up a trellis. And the rest I planted out in the garden to climb up a pole. (unfortunately something ate a couple down to the nub!) The flowers/blossoms and seeds are beautiful! The flowers are more of a fluorescent red/orange color when in bloom. I did have one white flower bloom on one plant. I am getting some little beans now on the plants! This is my first time growing them. I have not seen any hummers on them yet! (Fortex pole bean in foreground)
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They are beautiful! Sorry that the hummers haven't discovered them - yet. Hopefully, they will.
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So would you be eating these strictly as dry beans, or can you eat while they are still string beans? Thank you for posting the pics, I have never seen or grown these before but I am familiar with the name. If I am not mistaken, I was going to order them once a couple of years ago but the site was sold out and I didn't bother looking around. They are so pretty, I would use them in my front yard.
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IWK can be eaten as snaps when young, before the pods show bulges. I even snack on them raw, they are sweeter raw than many common snap beans. The beans are fairly good eaten as shellies, when the seeds are fully grown in the pods but not yet dry. The original source said he used the mature seed as dry beans, but I've never tried that.
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The flowers are so pretty on those beans. I wonder if they would grow well here.
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IWK is a great variety - pretty, productive and tasty too - glad you found it, Ginny. It does shut down setting pods in the midAtlantic when the summer heat gets extreme, but bounced right back for me when the temps moderated after August. Young pods are great stir fried or steamed; I haven't tried the dried beans yet but they come in volume!
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