Allotment Gardening Advice Help Chat
Growing => Grow Your Own => Topic started by: wellingtons on August 02, 2007, 09:43
-
My runner beans all failed first time round and are now slowly catching up, but I do have one bean that somehow appeared in the right place early in the season.
This particular plant is about 8 foot tall and most interestly is really dense and bushy. It is the only plant producing runner beans at the minute and it's keeping me busy, picking enough for 3 or 4 meals a week!! And it's been doing that for the last month.
I wondered if I kept seeds from this particular plant would I blessed with a whole row of SuperBeans. If I could guarantee next years' beans would perform this way, I could get away with just planting 2 or 3 of them and keep me in more than enough runners!
I suspect it may be hit and miss and no guarantees!
-
Guess it depends if it breeds true. Was the original a F1 variety?
-
If there are other bean varieties around it will have cross pollinated. I'd be tempted to give it a go though, just for fun :D
-
just leave that plant where it is - let it self seed - and you will have even better beans next year.
runner beans are better the following season - i use the same bean trench for 3/4 seasons and leave at least half of the previous years beans in - and by sowing just a few new ones each year - which will then last for several years - you are always renewing the stock if you know what i mean - i'm a bid brain dead this morning - hope i've explained it ok :lol:
-
... that this years beans will regrow?? Or that I should keep using the same space and leave a few beans to fall to the ground and make new plants?
I'm happy to use the same space for as long as I can, as it's a perfect division of the plot tidy bit on view, runner beans then mayhem ... :lol:
-
... what the original variety was off the top of my noodle, and I doubt that I still have the packet, but will check.
Aunt Sally, there are other beans around, but none flowering on my plot ... lol ... well not yet anyhoo!
-
just leave the plant - don't cut down or anything - just leave it alone.
you have nothing to lose - everything to gain.
just pop a few new bean plants in as a backup / new stock for next season etc.
this years beans will produce a great yeild next year - and earlier than any beans you sow next season :wink:
-
Sploger will this work for French climbing beans, leaving them in the ground for next year?
-
don't think so - but there again - i've not tried it
-
Splodger, runner beans aren't particularly frost hardy so maybe your plan might work "daarn saarf", but in deepest Yorkshire I can't see the plants surviving one season to the next without major protection.
:?
-
the seeds will germinate but the plants wont if the ground becomes frozen ,i have seen runner plants regrow here in suffolk so it can werk , sow ya seed early then plant out when ready, then sow a few seeds a couple weeks later in the same bed next to ya plants ,you can do this for a couple months i have em growing from may to october like that , n wellies me likkle fruitbat ,save some seed anyways :wink:
-
n wellies me likkle fruitbat ,save some seed anyways :wink:
Just what I said, but I like they way you said it better :lol: