Can I...

[shirlthegirl43]

Plant some dwarf bean seeds at the bottom of my purple podded mangetout plants for a late crop? Or would I be better to grow more peas there?

The peas have only been planted out a month and the ground hasn't grown anything other than brambles and nettles for at least 10 years. I just wondered if I could stick the seeds in the ground and let them grow up the same netting the peas used. I am desperate to actually get enough crops to have some to freeze for the winter. This weather has preveted digging more of the bramble patch so I am having to look at other options.

[Hazel at the Hill]

I would have thought that would be ok, stg - dwarf beans are quite quick growing, I don't think that they'll need the netting, either.

My dwarf beans are about a foot high and haven't needed any support.

[moggssue]

I've done that Shirl, I stuck some seeds in the ground around my broad beans and now have baby dwarf french beans growing up the almost finished broads so i would say give it a go, what have you to lose other than a couple of seeds?!

[Grandpadragon]

Hiya Shirl,
Give it a go as Anne Swithinbank said on the radio on sunday that she was doing it as with climate change and a later season we should get a good crop from a late sowing. I have had to harvest all my pots in pots (Blight) so am going to bring in fresh compost and use the pots for beans and other crops.