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Produce => Edible Plants => Topic started by: Rhubarb Thrasher on April 29, 2007, 18:02:15

Title: Runners and Global Warming
Post by: Rhubarb Thrasher on April 29, 2007, 18:02:15
I was clearing someone's plot yesterday and came across last year's runner bean roots, and they were sprouting. I know Mr Flowerdew recommends overwintering a couple of runner bean roots in a frost free ghouse, to get a super early start in the next year, but has anyone else managed to do it in open ground?
Title: Re: Runners and Global Warming
Post by: Jeannine on April 29, 2007, 18:40:50
No, but if the weather doesn't right itself I might be  plannting cotton and sugar cane as my play crops next year.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Title: Re: Runners and Global Warming
Post by: Rhubarb Thrasher on April 29, 2007, 18:47:52
as someone said - "There Is No Such Thing As Global Warming, and if you'll excuse me, i'm just off to pick my Mangoes......."
Title: Re: Runners and Global Warming
Post by: Marymary on April 29, 2007, 18:49:25
I heard someone on the radio last week saying that 'global warming was a concept he didn't believe in' ! !
Title: Re: Runners and Global Warming
Post by: ellkebe on April 29, 2007, 18:51:30
Can we all play game? - work is now officially a concept that I don't believe in  ;D
Title: Re: Runners and Global Warming
Post by: Robert_Brenchley on April 29, 2007, 18:53:38
I don't believe in global warming deniers. Therefore they don't exist.
Title: Re: Runners and Global Warming
Post by: Jeannine on April 29, 2007, 19:02:19
They probably think sunscreen is custard too. XX Jeannine
Title: Re: Runners and Global Warming
Post by: markfield rover on April 29, 2007, 19:11:03
I have some annual sweet pea seed that  was left on the plot
last year,I will be picking the first flowers Tuesday!
Title: Re: Runners and Global Warming
Post by: tricia on April 29, 2007, 21:03:16
.................and I have a Kerria shrub which blooms in June. It did..........and it hasn't stopped putting out fresh flowers all winter. There is now new growth, fresh green leaves and another spurt of flowers. I really pity the poor plants, they don't know whether they are coming or going! Global warming???????? Nah!

Tricia
Title: Re: Runners and Global Warming
Post by: Trevor_D on April 29, 2007, 21:09:24
Several years ago - should have made a note of it, but I didn't - I missed grubbing out a root and it burst into growth the following year. Much earlier into flower than any I'd sown. And here I am with the beans still in the packet when the things can actually over-winter!!!!
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