Today, we are doing a plant review for some of the garden vegetables I grew in 2025. This is my second vegetable review. If you would like to read the first, where I review Carwile’s Virginia peanut, Thai red roselle, Stewart Zeebest okra, and Moon and Stars yellow watermelon, click here!
Painted Lady Runner Beans Plant Review
Garden Vegetable Review Score
Overall; 4/5
Ease of growing: 4/5
Harvest yield: 2/5
Harvest quality: 5/5
Would I grow it again? Yes.
Explanation
Painted lady improved runner beans were a mixed bag for me. On the one hand, the vines grew and flowered vigorously, and their beans were delicious. On the other hand, the VAST majority of the flowers never produced beans! If I were gardening mainly for flowers, this would not bother me. But, I am more practical about my goals, and I wanted beans.
The beans I got were wonderful, however. They had a flavor similar to green beans, except stronger and more vegetal. I only ate them as snap beans, and did not try them as shelling beans. They were fantastic sauteed in butter with a little salt and pepper.
I still have the pot full of roots in the shed since they are perennial beans. I have heard that the beans begin to produce better crops as they get older and stronger, so we will see if that is true.
Suyo Long Asian Cucumber Plant Review
Garden Vegetable Review Score
Overall: 2.33/5
Ease of growing: 2/5
Harvest yield: 1/5
Harvest quality: 4/5
Would I grow it again? No.
Explanation
I grew three Suyo cucumber vines, but I only got one single cucumber before they all died of milder and bug damage! The cucumber was pretty good, very mild and watery, which I like. However, I did not like the overall results here, so I am not growing them again. Diseases obliterated my vines before I could get even two cucumbers off of them!
