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Growing => Grow Your Own => Topic started by: shedmeister on May 19, 2018, 19:38

Title: Lurkers revisited
Post by: shedmeister on May 19, 2018, 19:38

Beware folkes and folkesses. The season once again has arrived.
today I harvested my first crop of broard beans and lo and behold. as soon as I had finnished and looked round.
 There they were.  Two juicy pods just lurking there more or less laughing at me.

Title: Re: Lurkers revisited
Post by: New shoot on May 20, 2018, 09:11

Well at least you have beans  :lol:  Mine are flowering, but no pods yet, lurking or in plain sight.

Title: Re: Lurkers revisited
Post by: ApprenticeGardener82 on May 20, 2018, 09:34

Just flowers here too but not long!!  :D

Title: Re: Lurkers revisited
Post by: sunshineband on May 20, 2018, 16:45

Same here... lovely broad flowers but no discernable pods as yet, and as for runners, they are only just starting to climb, but hopefully they will get there  :D :D

Title: Re: Lurkers revisited
Post by: Potterer on May 20, 2018, 20:47

Like others I don’t have beans yet but this really made me smile! I have posted before about how I find myself trying to sneak up on runner beans as they’re hiding from me!

Title: Re: Lurkers revisited
Post by: juvenal on May 20, 2018, 23:48

These lurkers are an awful curse
I miss them on each picking
A broad bean sniffing dog I’ll get
To give ‘em a damn good licking!

He’ll penetrate their leafy lair
They hide, with nothing showing
But he’ll have ‘em firmly by their stalks
My saucepan’s where they’re going!