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Growing => Grow Your Own => Topic started by: like diggingk on April 21, 2012, 17:12

Title: runner beans and French beans ?
Post by: like diggingk on April 21, 2012, 17:12: should i put my runner beans and french beans out ?
there in the greenhouse at the mo but there getting to big for there pots
the runners are in a 3" pots and are 10" tall
the french beans are also in 3" pots and are 8" tall
all have root coming out of the bottom
there in the unheated green house at the moment

hope some one can help would not like to lose them

also when the best time to put sweet corn out thinking the first week of may :unsure:

:wacko: :unsure: :blink:
Title: Re: runner beans and French beans ?
Post by: sunshineband on April 21, 2012, 17:15: NO!!!

Don't put them outside as it is almost certain, even in Portsmouth, that more frosts will come.

You could repot them into deeper pots, and give each one a stick to wind around to avoid an almighty tangle.

Sweetcorn is just as tender, so keep it under cover until at least mid May, or it will go into shock and stop growing
Title: Re: runner beans and French beans ?
Post by: mumofstig on April 21, 2012, 17:17: unless you have cloches you can plant them under, IMO it'll still be too cold the first week in May :(

Unless you can protect them, the first whiff of a frost and they'll be dead n gone!

I only put my corn to chit yesterday and haven't even thought about sowing the beans yet :ohmy:
Title: Re: runner beans and French beans ?
Post by: DD. on April 21, 2012, 17:37: Quote from: mumofstig on April 21, 2012, 17:17

I only put my corn to chit yesterday and haven't even thought about sowing the beans yet :ohmy:

That's odd, I've done the same! Sweetcorn just chitting, beans in their packets.

I think you've caught the "bit too eager" disease, I'm sorry to say.
Title: Re: runner beans and French beans ?
Post by: sunshineband on April 21, 2012, 17:49: I have dwarf french beans under a cloche, but fleece at the ready ~~should~~ when frost threatens, and they are in a sheltered spot too.

Sweetcorn just chitted and planted in pots today

Other beans all still in their packets too.

Never mind diggingk, you might get away with coddling them on inside, and if not, as you can see, it is not too late to sow more.
Title: Re: runner beans and French beans ?
Post by: like diggingk on April 21, 2012, 18:35: thanks for the replies :D

think i will repot them into a bigger pot
will make room for them in the corner of the greenhouse
and plant them out mid may

sweetcorn will be ok as there only 3" tall

yes was a bit impatient as first year on the plot and after all the hard work need to see something growing :blush:

i have 15 diffident tomato plants there all about 1ft tall
and 20 cucumbers 6" tall

all happy in the greenhouse will soon there be no room for me :ohmy: :D

thanks again :D
Title: Re: runner beans and French beans ?
Post by: sunshineband on April 21, 2012, 18:37: Cucumbers grow quickly in good conditions, and sweetcorn do too.

Sweetcorn do not like having their long root disturbed too much, so potting them inot deeper containers would be helpful, if you have enough compost
Title: Re: runner beans and French beans ?
Post by: like diggingk on April 21, 2012, 18:52: will get some more compost tomorrow and repot the sweetcorn :)

i can get compost from the 99p shop or should i get grow bags you get more soil in them also 99p :unsure:

thanks for your help :D

never grow anything before love spend every day on the plot 8)
Title: Re: runner beans and French beans ?
Post by: sharon13 on April 21, 2012, 20:14: oh dear I just went and put runners out on the plot :(
Title: Re: runner beans and French beans ?
Post by: azubah on April 21, 2012, 20:43: Quote from: sharon13 on April 21, 2012, 20:14
oh dear I just went and put runners out on the plot :(

What are your day and night time minimum temperatures up there?
Title: Re: runner beans and French beans ?
Post by: Dopey113 on April 21, 2012, 21:00: at what sort of temperatures is it good to start planting out then? 7 8? (minimums)
Title: Re: runner beans and French beans ?
Post by: Charl89 on April 21, 2012, 21:44: i put mine out today only cos i know we never get frost so i would hold off until you know 100% you want get any.
Title: Re: runner beans and French beans ?
Post by: DD. on April 21, 2012, 21:49: What's 600 miles between friends. (Difference between Alderney & Helensburg).
Title: Re: runner beans and French beans ?
Post by: Charl89 on April 21, 2012, 23:01: today was been really hot, the ground whilst planting was very hot too! fingers crossed everything will stay ok over here unless we get a freak snow storm :lol:
Title: Re: runner beans and French beans ?
Post by: New shoot on April 22, 2012, 07:11: Quote from: Dopey113 on April 21, 2012, 21:00
at what sort of temperatures is it good to start planting out then? 7 8? (minimums)

Beans are terribly sensitive to cold Dopey so it is usually not safe until well into May to put them out. You want overnight temperatures getting near 10 really.

I'll admit to sowing just a few dwarf french ones yesterday, but I'm going to have them in containers in the greenhouse for an early crop. I've got a load of cheap builders buckets with drainage holes drilled into them that I use and if the beans are still going when I need the space, I just move the bucket outside :)
Title: Re: runner beans and French beans ?
Post by: lettice on April 22, 2012, 10:56: Down here its always traditional to get your runner beans in on Wickham Fair Day, which is traditionally the 20th May weekend.