Anyone got their Runners in yet?

I normally sow my French and runner beans indoors, but this year I tried putting the pots straight out in my polytunnel. It still only took two weeks for them to germinate. And last night I recorded a low of 3.5 degrees in my tunnel, and that was under fleece as well as inside the tunnel. Didn't seem to bother the beans though, and nor did it bother the tomato, squash or courgette plants. Be interesting to see if not starting them off indoors makes them any more robust, but I'd have thought it would be less of a shock for them to move outdoors from there.

the runners I started off too early are now in the polytunnel in large pots, along with sweetpeas. Fingers crossed they won't get too cold at night. I've started some more off at home and also have my french beans growing nicely on the windowsill.

Not long to wait now.  

mine were eaten nearly to death in the polytunnel by something. I moved the pot outside a couple of days ago with the intention of getting rid of them and reusing the compost, and today they have flowers on them! So I've removed a lot of dead leaves and will see how they get on. In the meantime I have some more seedlings which will go out in a couple of weeks.

I don't have runners, but I have two pots of french dwarf, and one big tub with french climbers (blauhild and nekargold).  Despite the seed being "out of date" I have 100% germination on the dwarfs and the blauhild... just waiting for the nekargold now

Planted 10 plugs, Firestorm. Red flowers,stringless, self pollinating and should do well during our ??dry summer.

I did not realise that a self fertilising runner bean had been produced. I was looking at the picture of the flowers thinking there will not be any insects in this wet weather to pollinate them.

Quote from: mikegm on June 08, 2012, 14:00

Planted 10 plugs, Firestorm. Red flowers,stringless, self pollinating and should do well during our ??dry summer.

I did not realise that a self fertilising runner bean had been produced. I was looking at the picture of the flowers thinking there will not be any insects in this wet weather to pollinate them.

Moonlight a white flowered one and now Firestorm a red one
http://www.marshalls-seeds.co.uk/runner-bean-firestorm-pid5345.html