If you’re planning on growing your own produce, runner beans are a great place to start because they are incredibly easy to grow. And even if you don’t have a lot of garden space, there are ways to grow runner beans in pots, making them the perfect small garden idea due to their vertical growing habits.
But even if you do have the space to grow them outside in the garden, planting your runner beans in pots comes with the benefit of starting them early indoors and therefore harvesting sooner. Even though runner beans are easy to grow, they are warm-loving plants sensitive to cold so May is usually the best time for when to sow runner beans.
