French beans

[Florence Fennel]

BTW, I've been married 42 years and I'm pretty sure that Himself doesn't know what veg I like!

[Bex]

I'm glad it's not just me Florence. I'll buy more seed lol


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[snakeshack]

Mine took 2 weeks to come up 100% germination..........slugs took 2 nights to eat the lot 100% destruction


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[Nicos]

^^^ouch!

yeh...we have slugs/snails and voles which seem to have midnight feasts in our potager
I'm sure they would invite me...but are worried in case my OH were to bring some beer ...and our pussy cat/hunter extraordinaire

[Two_Sheds]

mine are outside, and 12" up their canes.

No particular prob with germination in the gh, apart from the few weeks it turned cool and cloudy, then I lost some to rot

[Alison]

Mine were germinated in the utility room and got a bit tall before I took them out the greenhouse to start hardening off. They're now on outside staging which is very sheltered with a view to being planted out next weekend (hopefully). I'll always sow another seed at the bottom of the cane when I plant out too.

[Nicos]

I've put fleece over ours tonight.
Nope- no frost expected...just to raise the soil temp above what it would have been

[Bex]

mine are outside, and 12" up their canes.

No particular prob with germination in the gh, apart from the few weeks it turned cool and cloudy, then I lost some to rot

Show off lol I'm envious


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[Dorothy rouse]

Dwarf beans sown direct, only about 5 have come up. More in, waiting for them to germinate.
Borlotti dwarf,sown in modules, every one germinated,now planted out on plot.
Lady Di runners ,sown in modules,about 6 only germinated, now planted out, more sown.
Climbing French, sown in modules, not bad,now planted out.
Waiting for Borlotti climbing beans to germinate.

So I agree, a really difficult year for the old beans!

[Samurailord]

I sowed a dozen each of climbing and bush french beans in root trainers in the polytunnel.

So far I have five bush beans and three climbers about 10 inches tall, one other climber was got by a tiny slug that I found hiding in the bottom opening of one of the pots.

I still have some self-saved Blue Lake climbing bean seeds and some Scarlet Emperor runner bean seads, so it looks like I will be having a very mixed crop of beans this year - assuming that I can get some through to maturity!

Andy