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Bloody runner beans!
On 2009-08-27 12:12:11 +0100, Pam Moore said:
On Wed, 26 Aug 2009 21:04:46 +0100, K wrote: alan.holmes writes Each morning I go to the bottom of the garden to pick runner beans, and often I cannot find any, then a couple of days later there are dozens of them, huge and well past their best, so where have they been hiding, and how can I be sure to find the damnned things before they get to the stage when they are inedible? If you shake the plants, the heavy beans have a different movement from the leaves and are easier to spot. I saw an idea on a gardening prog ages ago. A guy put his bean-canes in quite wide apart, joined the tops of them with pieces of water-pipe to make an arch, so that you can walk down the middle. The beans largely hang down on the inside. I tried it one year. It needed some work to get the canes to stay in the pipe. My pieces of pipe were too large a diameter. Pam in Bristol Looks pretty done with peasticks out of the hedge, or with dried out willow, too. I say 'dried out' because otherwise you find they've rooted and you have a permanent arch! -- Sacha www.hillhousenursery.com Shrubs & perennials. Tender & exotics. South Devon |
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