Allotment Gardening Advice Help Chat
Growing => Grow Your Own => Topic started by: duncan on June 11, 2007, 13:00
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RUNNER BEANS FRENCH BEANS DWARF BEANS
are not doing so well this year they are very slow and look weak i know other gardeners around here with the same problems in DONCASTER
but the broad beans are doing GREAT ..the green greenhouse is full of toms and cucumbers gonna be loaded this year having to water morning and night with this weather sometimes hitting the 100f (heat) in the greenhouse and 80f with the doors open till late at night .. so not be long before toms cucumber lettuce cress mustard cress sandwich ...hehe
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Errrm ... you didn't actually ask a question?? Good to hear of progress though
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Errrm ... you didn't actually ask a question?? Good to hear of progress though
Bless him WG....he's excited! ;)
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quick question
RUNNER BEANS FRENCH BEANS DWARF BEANS
are not doing so well this year they are very slow and look weak i know other gardeners around here with the same problems in DONCASTER
but the broad beans are doing GREAT ..the green greenhouse is full of toms and cucumbers gonna be loaded this year having to water morning and night with this weather sometimes hitting the 100f (heat) in the greenhouse and 80f with the doors open till late at night .. so not be long before toms cucumber lettuce cress mustard cress sandwich ...hehe
the question dr holmes is hows beans doing in the rest of the country
thats the question watson
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funny that bout the beans - mine in the lottie started well enough but we had a cold spell and it seems to have set them back - now mine are are looking a bit yellowish lottie next door has beans that look ok - could it be that my beans are in ground that has been grass for two years - i dug trenches and put in loads of stuff before planting, its just a shame to see them struggling should i perk them up with something :?:
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funny that bout the beans - mine in the lottie started well enough but we had a cold spell and it seems to have set them back - now mine are are looking a bit yellowish lottie next door has beans that look ok - could it be that my beans are in ground that has been grass for two years - i dug trenches and put in loads of stuff before planting, its just a shame to see them struggling should i perk them up with something :?:
cant really answer your question there
but we are having the same problem here there is plenty of manure on the garden from last year but the beans are not strong at all this year and there the same in a lot of the gardens here..and we have all used different seeds
are we gonna have a bad year for BEANS.. ermmmmm intresting
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mine were growing slowly until my arch enemy mrs rabbit ate them all down to the stubbs. never mind i,m glad my hubby has an allotment too. his are growing well. its quite grey here at the moment we are in need of some sunshine .
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quick question
RUNNER BEANS FRENCH BEANS DWARF BEANS
are not doing so well this year they are very slow and look weak i know other gardeners around here with the same problems in DONCASTER
but the broad beans are doing GREAT ..the green greenhouse is full of toms and cucumbers gonna be loaded this year having to water morning and night with this weather sometimes hitting the 100f (heat) in the greenhouse and 80f with the doors open till late at night .. so not be long before toms cucumber lettuce cress mustard cress sandwich ...hehe
very hot here its been 100f in greenhouse with the door open today..
and still hot now at 4.05 will have to wait until about 7.30 to water garden here .......
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First lot of runners didn't germinate. Next two lots died as soon as planted out (late May). Fingers crossed I'm doing ok now with another two lots of runners looking good and 95% germination of my dwarf borlotto's . This past week I've hadp eas/mangetout germinate in just three days.
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My Dear Watson, my dwarf and climbing french beans and runners are all doing much better than last year in Swindon, on the edge of Mangelwurzeland. I put this down to last Autumns manuring but also to a helpful combination of rain and sun at the right times.
Great difficulty in germinating salady things last month (cold) but now they shoot out of the ground - warm, wet soil, I think.
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I`m only just putting my french beans out but they`re racing up the poles.
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I have dwarf beans, first year I've grown beans at all. every single seed germinated so had a huge glut of bean plants. They are growing quite slowly and are currently about 8 inches high but its been very dry. That said I am digging out a new path at the moment and the subsoil/clay underneath teh topsoil is still quite wet so I guess they'll be fine in the dry.
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quick question
RUNNER BEANS FRENCH BEANS DWARF BEANS
are not doing so well this year they are very slow and look weak i know other gardeners around here with the same problems in DONCASTER
but the broad beans are doing GREAT ..the green greenhouse is full of toms and cucumbers gonna be loaded this year having to water morning and night with this weather sometimes hitting the 100f (heat) in the greenhouse and 80f with the doors open till late at night .. so not be long before toms cucumber lettuce cress mustard cress sandwich ...hehe
the question dr holmes is hows beans doing in the rest of the country
thats the question watson
yes very strange this year with the beans there are very easy crop to grow maybe its the weather !"!!! this year.....ive been and visited 4 _5 gardens and there having the same problems very stringy plants with very few flowers.....one of the lads as sent for some more beans to plant see if its the seed we are useing ....but we are all useing different seeds bought from diffrent places i was looking at the dwarft beans and there just as bad !!! i grow them up a fence about 50ft in length . the whole fence should be a mass of green red flowers at this time..even the leaves are small on the plants too............but broad beans are booming ..... :roll:
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It is elementary, my dear Watson ... May was cold and wet.
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runner beans doing really well in stourbridge,west mids
dwarf beans only just come through in one bed - not through at all in other
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quick question
RUNNER BEANS FRENCH BEANS DWARF BEANS
are not doing so well this year they are very slow and look weak i know other gardeners around here with the same problems in DONCASTER
but the broad beans are doing GREAT ..the green greenhouse is full of toms and cucumbers gonna be loaded this year having to water morning and night with this weather sometimes hitting the 100f (heat) in the greenhouse and 80f with the doors open till late at night .. so not be long before toms cucumber lettuce cress mustard cress sandwich ...hehe
glad to hear someones got decents runner beans......
where doing well with cabbages this year last year was a flop