[cc]

A liquid tomato feed

I have 3 three or four year old comfrey plants (bocking 14) and about 20 1 year olds.  I make up a feed in a medium sized water butt. I will use that.

Come to think of it, it would be better if I used the large water butt at the top of the terraces.
Is there a veg plant where I shouldn't use comfrey tea?
My knees knackered it would save me carrying it around from front garden and up the steps.

[Mr Rotavator]

Have you put the seeds in the ground already, cc?   Runner beans are not frost hardy, we can get frosts until the end of April.

https://www.allotment-garden.org/vegetable/runner-beans-growing/

No I expect I will start seedlings off in greenhouse this week. Borlotti, green and purple French beans, haricot and this year broad beans.
Bit of disaster last year as some like haricot were going more sideways than up. Was finding them 20 plus feet from where I was growing them.

Way too early for any beans except broad beans.

I’m going to try around 4mm natural fibre sash cord this year for my beans, tomatoes and cucumbers. Too many canes to renew this year so need to try something that I hope will be more cost effective.

[Omega]

cheap polypropylene twine would do the job

You want Jute twine - not polypropylene. It's a little more expensive from Wilko £1.75 vs £1 for 125m but at the end of the season you can just cut if off your horizontal wire and throw it on your compost heap with the beans and it will biodegrade. It will take a lot of effort to separate the polypropylene from the beans in situ and you probably don't want to throw polypropylene twine onto you compost heap.

Available in brown or green. https://www.wilko.com/en-uk/wilko-jute-twine-green-125m/p/0504361 or https://www.wilko.com/en-uk/wilko-jute-twine-natural-125m/p/0504362

[Yorkie]

You need to be careful with jute twine on bean frames or the like.

I used it once, and it disintegrated before the end of the season, leaving the frame near to collapse. Birds also like pecking at it for nests.

[cc]

 Is there a veg plant where I shouldn't use comfrey tea?

[Mr Rotavator]

You need to be careful with jute twine on bean frames or the like.

I used it once, and it disintegrated before the end of the season, leaving the frame near to collapse. Birds also like pecking at it for nests.

That's my concern, hence going for something thicker, to avoid the thin stuff you find in Wilko and the likes.

Can you recall what you used please?

[Mr Rotavator]

A leading catalogue/ DIY / trade retailer sells 30m of 1.6mm galvanised wire for £2.63. I wonder if runner beans will climb it?

[Yorkie]

I used just standard green jute twine of no particular thickness.  You may well find that a thicker one would do the job. Also, being aware of the risk of fraying, you can take remedial steps mid-season if need be (whereas I was in blissful ignorance until it was a little too late  )

[Aunt Sally]

We use coir twine, it’s quite thick. 

[Growster...]

If you can get hold of the string used in hop gardens, it's ideal, but a bit rare these days!

A check online helps; it rots nicely in time for you to 'chop and drop' the stems for next year!