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Old 23-06-2009, 11:17 AM posted to uk.rec.gardening
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Default Runner Beans Unwinding

June Hughes writes
In message , Gordon H
writes
In message , Judith M
Smith writes

This last week most of my beans (red rum and also French climbing
beans) have unwound themselves.

I can only feel very slight sympathy, the slugs or snails killed all
mine.
;-)


They started on mine but I managed to rescue most of them. However, as
a result, they have become rather slow in shooting along the sticks.
Can't have everything. I read somewhere that you should put
nasturtiums amongst them as slugs prefer them to most other plants but
as I like to grow nasturtiums too, I can't see the point of that.


Nor do I! I can't grow runner or french beans, sunflowers or lupins
because of slugs, but I've never had a nasturtium touched!
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Kay