"Jaques d'Alltrades" wrote in message
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"Griff" writes:
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| This year the first 2 - 3ft of flowers on my runner beans have
dropped off
| without any beans having formed?
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| Anyone have any suggestions as how to prevent this happening.

Water them regularly.

| Hopefully the rest might set?

It depends on the weather.

There is controversy about whether this helps, but 'misting' the flowers
in dry weather is said to help.

In any case, it can't do any harm. Well, I've tried it, and it didn't do
any harm. Certainly, beans set, but whether this was because of the
misting or if they would have set anyway, I can't say.

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I've put ALL my grass cuttings for the whole summer around my climbing fr
beans every year thats about 8 lawnmower bagfuls per fortnight or even
weekly. Never had any problem with setting and get a tremendous crop.