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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?
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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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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 ... 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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@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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"Roger Tonkin" wrote in message ... 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! No hedgehogs should ever be out during the day. Read this: http://www.sttiggywinkles.org.uk/hedgehogs.html |
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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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wrote in news:arbukqFmnbeU1
@mid.individual.net: 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 |
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