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When will you sow Runner Beans this year assuming that sometime in the next 3 months the temperature will reach 60 degrees?

I'm expecting to sow in the greenhouse late April/early May.
That said, I haven't sown anything yet except sweet peas. Just not in a sowing mood at the moment. Probably something to do with having to work out which snow drift conceals the bags of compost.

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When will you sow Runner Beans this year assuming that sometime in the
next 3 months the temperature will reach 60 degrees?

I USUALLY SOW MINE AT THE END OF MAY, STRAIGHT INTO
THE GROUND.

--
Roger T

700 ft up in Mid-Wales

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Bigolob wrote:
When will you sow Runner Beans this year assuming that sometime in the
next 3 months the temperature will reach 60 degrees?

I normally do them straight in the ground when it's warm enough, but
after last year's disaster I've started them up in modules to transplant
out once they're big enough to survive.

(Last year I did 7 or 8 sewings, both from greenhouse-started and
straight in the ground, and every night the bloody slugs munched the
lot. Same with the courgettes and butternuts. It was a baaaad year)

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"Bigolob" wrote in message
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When will you sow Runner Beans this year assuming that sometime in the
next 3 months the temperature will reach 60 degrees?



My grandfather always sowed them on May 8th. This has worked for me until
now.
By the time they emerge usually all frost is past, but who knows this year?


--
Bigolob

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In article , Bigolob.bc66b96
@gardenbanter.co.uk says...

When will you sow Runner Beans this year assuming that sometime in the
next 3 months the temperature will reach 60 degrees?

Depends on last-frost dates where you live. Here, I'll plant seeds
in pots indoors in May, to be hardened off in the cold frame then
planted out around June 7 th.

Janet (Arran)

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In article ,
says...

Bigolob wrote:
When will you sow Runner Beans this year assuming that sometime in the
next 3 months the temperature will reach 60 degrees?

I normally do them straight in the ground when it's warm enough, but
after last year's disaster I've started them up in modules to transplant
out once they're big enough to survive.

(Last year I did 7 or 8 sewings, both from greenhouse-started and
straight in the ground, and every night the bloody slugs munched the
lot. Same with the courgettes and butternuts. It was a baaaad year)

We have had a hedgehog visiting the garden during the
day time last week, not seen him since the snow!
Hopefully he will keep the slugs at bay this year!

--
Roger T

700 ft up in Mid-Wales

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"Roger Tonkin" wrote in message
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In article ,
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Bigolob wrote:
When will you sow Runner Beans this year assuming that sometime in the
next 3 months the temperature will reach 60 degrees?

I normally do them straight in the ground when it's warm enough, but
after last year's disaster I've started them up in modules to transplant
out once they're big enough to survive.

(Last year I did 7 or 8 sewings, both from greenhouse-started and
straight in the ground, and every night the bloody slugs munched the
lot. Same with the courgettes and butternuts. It was a baaaad year)

We have had a hedgehog visiting the garden during the
day time last week, not seen him since the snow!
Hopefully he will keep the slugs at bay this year!


No hedgehogs should ever be out during the day. Read this:
http://www.sttiggywinkles.org.uk/hedgehogs.html

When you see one out in the day, they are usually very ill. The first couple of times I saw this, near my previous house, where they are common (I had them breeding under the shed one year), they were clearly beyond saving. But I saw one recently - which was interestingly the first time I have seen a hedgehog in the vicinity of my present house (too many badgers round here) - it scarpered, which suggests it had rather more life left in it than the previous times. Though I wouldn't fancy its chances against the badgers...

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In article ,
says...

We have had a hedgehog visiting the garden during the
day time last week, not seen him since the snow!
Hopefully he will keep the slugs at bay this year!


No hedgehogs should ever be out during the day. Read this:
http://www.sttiggywinkles.org.uk/hedgehogs.html

I though that, but he seemed to be well, feeding
happily. He (or she) even climbed into a marg
container that had a fat and seed mixture for the
birds and tucked in happily before wandering off.

We were away last week, and then/now there is the
snow, so I've not seen him since. I think I know where
he's been hibernating, but I'm not going to
investigate until the weather gets much warmer.

Not sure where my nearest wildlife hospital is.

--
Roger T

700 ft up in Mid-Wales

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"Roger Tonkin" wrote in message
...
In article ,
says...

We have had a hedgehog visiting the garden during the
day time last week, not seen him since the snow!
Hopefully he will keep the slugs at bay this year!


No hedgehogs should ever be out during the day. Read this:
http://www.sttiggywinkles.org.uk/hedgehogs.html

I though that, but he seemed to be well, feeding
happily. He (or she) even climbed into a marg
container that had a fat and seed mixture for the
birds and tucked in happily before wandering off.

We were away last week, and then/now there is the
snow, so I've not seen him since. I think I know where
he's been hibernating, but I'm not going to
investigate until the weather gets much warmer.

Not sure where my nearest wildlife hospital is.

--
Roger T


Best find out.

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"Bigolob" wrote


When will you sow Runner Beans this year assuming that sometime in the
next 3 months the temperature will reach 60 degrees?


It's not the temperature it will rise to that is the thing to worry about
it's what temperature it will go down to that should guide your planting of
such things. I can't put them out till the end of May, Chelsea time, when
the possibility of frost is over (although we did get one on the 9th June a
few years back). So as they usually only take about 4 weeks to grow to
planting size in our greenhouse I will plant beginning of May in 7"
rootrainers and then some more later.

--
Regards. Bob Hobden.
Posted to this Newsgroup from the W of London, UK

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Bigolob wrote:
When will you sow Runner Beans this year assuming that sometime in the
next 3 months the temperature will reach 60 degrees?

I normally do them straight in the ground when it's warm enough, but
after last year's disaster I've started them up in modules to transplant
out once they're big enough to survive.

(Last year I did 7 or 8 sewings, both from greenhouse-started and
straight in the ground, and every night the bloody slugs munched the
lot. Same with the courgettes and butternuts. It was a baaaad year)



I remember all the sowings you had to do.

Baz