Don't put your beans out yet!

[GardeningMike]

Planting out too early - a common problem...

Allotmentlady, I don't plant my beans til the beginning of May as I know I can't plant them out until the end of May. With beans late is good.

I think Alice's advice is good, the later the better, anytime from mid-May to June and you should be safe for planting out runner or french beans for most parts of the UK.

[Two_Sheds]

* whispers ... I've planted some dwarf Frenchies on the lotty, and they are 2 inches high already ( we don't get much frost round 'ere ... not much sunshine either though )

[jackie j]

And there was me thinking I was late cos I havent done beans yet As I have a busy week ahead I will wait.

[Snadger]

Read the first post !

No - not if it's still cold (which it is, at night). Sure, a frost may not kill them if they're fleeced, but they don't LIKE the cold ... they will suffer a check to their growth and may never catch up.

I'm not a smart - ar3e.

I learned the hard way.

Smart arse!

[Alison]

Will be sowing my Frenchies in the next few days but got given a few runners the other day. Wasn't going to grow them but as they were free and healthy and I'd nowhere to put them, they've been planted out on the plot (yesterday) so they can sink or swim. If we're lucky we'll get an early crop but as we didn't grow them, if they sucumb to the weather then we've not lost anything.