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Bloody runner beans!
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Pam Moore wrote: 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. My bean cage is a 12'x12' frame, 6' high, made up of a runner bean device I bought, bits of old climbing frame and swing, and some metal tubing. I put strings for them to climb up, and across. As I say, beans come out of my ears :-) This year, I am growing runners, borlotti, blue beans, pea beans and lablab - and ONE green bean plant. The pea beans and green one are in the centre. Has anyone grown lablab successfully? I sowed mine in late February, and they sat doing nothing until June, and then started growing vigorously. But no flowers yet, and it's getting late. Regards, Nick Maclaren. |
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