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

This is the first time I have ever seen this.

I normally start them off - by winding them round the support and
then securing, and then off they go.

I did this - no problem - but then several unwound themselves down as
far as the tie.

Anybody else experienced this?

Do other people start them off by a wind round?

How do they do if you don't do this?

Judith M Smith wrote:
This last week most of my beans (red rum and also French climbing
beans) have unwound themselves.

This is the first time I have ever seen this.

I normally start them off - by winding them round the support and
then securing, and then off they go.

I did this - no problem - but then several unwound themselves down as
far as the tie.

Anybody else experienced this?

Do other people start them off by a wind round?

How do they do if you don't do this?
Did you wind them the right way?? eg. anticlockwise.
--
Pete C
London UK

Pete C wrote:


How do they do if you don't do this?
Did you wind them the right way?? eg. anticlockwise.

Exactly my thought. I just leave mine to climb themselves. If the OP has
manually wound them the wrong way around, then it is likely they will
try to wind themselves the correct way and in the process unwind
themselves first.

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Pete C wrote:


How do they do if you don't do this?
Did you wind them the right way?? eg. anticlockwise.

Exactly my thought. I just leave mine to climb themselves. If the OP has
manually wound them the wrong way around, then it is likely they will try
to wind themselves the correct way and in the process unwind themselves
first.

--
David in Normandy.

Our beans had just started to take themselves up the sticks in their own way
:-)) when we had a severe rain storm and it washed them off the sticks. Joan
had to rewind them :-((

Mike

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Judith M Smith wrote:
This last week most of my beans (red rum and also French climbing
beans) have unwound themselves.

This is the first time I have ever seen this.

I normally start them off - by winding them round the support and
then securing, and then off they go.

I did this - no problem - but then several unwound themselves down as
far as the tie.

Anybody else experienced this?

Do other people start them off by a wind round?

How do they do if you don't do this?
Did you wind them the right way?? eg. anticlockwise.

I was going to say that!

Alan

On Mon, 22 Jun 2009 07:05:59 +0100, "Pete C"
wrote:



Judith M Smith wrote:
This last week most of my beans (red rum and also French climbing
beans) have unwound themselves.

This is the first time I have ever seen this.

I normally start them off - by winding them round the support and
then securing, and then off they go.

I did this - no problem - but then several unwound themselves down as
far as the tie.

Anybody else experienced this?

Do other people start them off by a wind round?

How do they do if you don't do this?
Did you wind them the right way?? eg. anticlockwise.


yep

On Mon, 22 Jun 2009 00:30:07 +0100, Judith M Smith
wrote:



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

This is the first time I have ever seen this.

I normally start them off - by winding them round the support and
then securing, and then off they go.

I did this - no problem - but then several unwound themselves down as
far as the tie.

Anybody else experienced this?

Do other people start them off by a wind round?

How do they do if you don't do this?

We just had a week away on holidays and I said there to my wife: "I
bet the stupid runner beans are winding themselves all over the place
and I will have to untangle them and show them the way."

On return I found them all clinging to the designated bamboo poles in
an exemplary fashion. Well done!
I apologised to the beans profusely for my doubts in them and rubbed
the few infestations of blackfly off with my bare fingers.


Jiri B - "compost mentis" in North Staffs.

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.
;-)
--
Gordon H
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In message , Gordon H
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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.
--
June Hughes

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!
--
Kay

June Hughes wrote:
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.
They love Marigolds!
--
Pete C
London UK

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June Hughes wrote:
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.
They love Marigolds!
--
Pete C
London UK


They have a rubber glove fetish?

For the last two years I have used slug nematodes on the garden. I've hardly seen any slugs in that time. I gather that some people have had no luck getting this to work. I cant help with that - I just follow the instructions.

In message , 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.

Unless you like to eat nasturtiums. I believe they are edible?
:-)
--
Gordon H
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In message , Gordon H
writes
In message , 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.

Unless you like to eat nasturtiums. I believe they are edible?
:-)
Yes. They are peppery and are good in salads. I believe the
Elizabethans loved to decorate their food with flowers. I am not
surprised - they add a bit of colour and interest
--
June Hughes