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Growing => Grow Your Own => The Show Bench => Topic started by: Motivator on May 04, 2013, 12:24

Title: Runner beans.
Post by: Motivator on May 04, 2013, 12:24

 Hi does anybody here know a method to straighten runner beans for shows.
 I  know Simon Smith has a method .

Title: Re: Runner beans.
Post by: Kleftiwallah on May 04, 2013, 12:50

Wrap them in a damp tea towel as straight as you can get them (even pop in a plastic rule) and bung 'em in the fridge overnight.

Cheers.   Tony.

Title: Re: Runner beans.
Post by: Motivator on May 04, 2013, 21:08

Thanks will be doing that method. :)

Title: Re: Runner beans.
Post by: bravemurphy on May 04, 2013, 21:21

hang a glass of water under them and keep lowering it down  ;)

Title: Re: Runner beans.
Post by: Totty on May 05, 2013, 08:06

As soon as you spot likely contenders growing for the bench, gently squeeze each immature seed until you get a little pop. When all of the beans seed are basically killed, all of the energy goes into growing nice and fast and straight, rather than growing to fill out seeds.
keep it to yourself though!!! ;)

Totty

Title: Re: Runner beans.
Post by: Motivator on May 06, 2013, 14:40

Totty that is a new one on me . ;)