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Produce => Edible Plants => Topic started by: Jeannine on April 30, 2016, 20:25:44
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My bean plants need to go out and it is still a bit too cold. I have some wall of water things I have never used does anyone have any idea if they would work to protect my beans for a couple of weeks.
XX Jeannine
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Not heard of those before ( just looked them up). Interesting idea!
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Apparently you can make theme it of two litre plastic bottles joined together in a circle. Not so easy or convenient to store when empty as the real wall of water is.
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Bob Flowerdew has loads of suggestions for crop protection and self watering in his organic veg book, and shows you how to make them....
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Thanks all, I have figured it out, I am going to grow them in a huge tub with a ring of bamboos..oh that is a wigwam I think LOL. anyway I can keep the tub in the greenhouse for a few weeks. It is actually quite warm here but the night times are still a bit cool for beans and stuff like that.
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My beans seem rather fragile this year, leaves were showing cold damage the day after I took them out of the propagator, into a heated greenhouse! I'm still getting huge temperature swings despite a new greenhouse heater, plants don't know if they are coming or going!
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I've not sown my beans yet so it's not a problem!
My problem is that I'm going away for 10 days from 13 May which completely messes up my sowing schedule. I've got to sow things just before I go rather than from now on. I may pass on some things this year.
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like teegee I use an old frame that had swing/seesaw/slide as we are in a really windy spot and its so heavy it never moves. I have for some years now planted straight into the ground as I find where beans are concerned this seems to work better and I think I get a stronger plant this way and they don't snap like they do when I've tried to get them out of there pots. Hope you all have a nice bank holiday. regards Taurus.