[Stratts]

Do you guys generally start all your bean/pea varieties off in pots then plant out when ready?

I have runners, broad, dwarf and climbing french beans and suger snap and kelvedon peas to try this year.

If so can they all be started off now/soon?

Ta

[DD.]

I start off beans in pots, but as you need at least 12 peas for just one foot of row, I'd never find enough pots!

Don't think of starting dwarf beans French and runners yet, as you can't put them out until danger of frost is past.

[Stratts]

Crikey never realised that ta, i'll sit on my hands a bit longer!!

[DD.]

Mine are scheduled for sowing mid April.

[sunshineband]

I have broad beans growing and am on the second lot now (first ones are a bit tall for pots but I haven't been bale to get down to the plot to plant them out... they are OK in the garden for a few more days)

Peas are four to a 2ins square module, as are the mange tout first sowing (Too expensive to be mouse food  and I don't gow as many as DD by a long way)

French beans and runners are of course still in their packets

Apart from the runner beans my eldest grand daughter is growing from pods she found in her garden -- htye are now out of their jar of water and in pots, about 2 ins tall. She is quite determined that they will grow on her bedroom windowsill until it is warm enough to plant them out and has even made a foil reflector for them... bless    She is only six though.......

..... I'm waiting to see them wrapped around the lampshade in a few weeks' time   

[Stratts]

Ok thanks I've got a busy evening ahead tnite then!

[Stratts]

Would I be ok to start brussels off too and leave them on the frame?

[mattwragg94]

yep my brassicas are being sown around this time, ive got cauli seedlings and ive just sown some cabbage and brocolli.

as for my peas, mine have just poked their heads throught the soil - and ill sow some morein a few weeks (in trays).

and i sow my beans in around mid april - to early may, just like DD

[Stratts]

Cracking thanks

[lazydog]

For peas lengths of old guttering hung up in the greenhouse work for me then just slide em out into a mini trench when ready to plant out,a good watering prior to planting out keeps the compost solid enough to get them in the ground.

[MyAchingBack]

Is it best to grow in pots or root trainers?

[DD.]

For peas lengths of old guttering hung up in the greenhouse work for me then just slide em out into a mini trench when ready to plant out,a good watering prior to planting out keeps the compost solid enough to get them in the ground.

Peas?  Mini trench?  The two don't go together! 

[DD.]

Is it best to grow in pots or root trainers?

Pots are fine. No need to waste your money!

[Aunt Sally]

I start my runner beans in Richy's Paper Pots

[Stratts]

I'm liking that idea cheers