How's your runners?

[tonybloke]

Picked this afternoon,[attachment=1]
Scarlet Emporer
;)

[tonybloke]

[allaboutliverpool]

Wow!

[tim]

Indeed!!

Just got a handful for supper tonight. All so bashed by the gales.

Surprised that Tony gets away with it, if near the sea?

[beanie3]

 :o  dead jealous - my beans havent done at all well this year......i am hoping a little patience and good luck will bring them out!

[manicscousers]

just had some more purple podded beans for tea, ours don't look too bad, the runners have some flowers on  ;D

[saddad]

We have some starting to produce, next weekend...  :)

[Emagggie]

Had some today, but plants don't look as good a last year. Can't see me having many to freeze. :(

[OllieC]

Very impressive! I've got a few that are up to 2 inches long & plenty starting to set - so a fortnight to go until your kind of harvest. Are you right on the east coast, getting less frosts, very skilled or both?!?!

[Deb P]

Mine are still in their pots...... :-[

Have to dig up some potatoes to get their new home sorted out...

[ninnyscrops]

Just waiting and hoping  :P

http://i158.photobucket.com/albums/t87/ninnyscrops/12072008003.jpg

Did staggered sowings this year too for the first time.

[valmarg]

And here was me thinking we were doing well with runners 4-6" long, even having had to fleece the plants shortly after they were planted out. ???

The climbing french beans are at a similar stage.

valmarg

[DAVIESFOZZIE]

 ::)jealous i  have 1 bean about 6 inches long and lots of tiny beans it is the cold damp windy weather here in Caerphilly this time last year i was picking beans and cucumbers nothing this year

[tonybloke]

Very impressive! I've got a few that are up to 2 inches long & plenty starting to set - so a fortnight to go until your kind of harvest. Are you right on the east coast, getting less frosts, very skilled or both?!?!

2 miles from the beach, surrounded by housing estates. This was how they looked at the end of may[attachment=1]
Istart them off in april in an unheated G/H at home, plant out behind glass in mid may. I use the same ground each year, trenched and compost/manure added in spring. I plant 3 varieties, this year, 'scarlet emporer' 18 plants,  in may i started off 18 'white lady' indoors, planted these out 1st week in june, at the same time i sowed direct 24 of my own saved seed. I am harvesting the S E now, the W L are just starting to crop, and the others are now 6ft high and in flower. ;)

[Chris Graham]

Doing quite well.

"Enorma"

[Anne Robertson]

I gave some runners to a fellow lottie holder as his weren't producing yet and he came back 20 mins. later with a lovely joint of pork from his son's farm!
Actually he is my Fairy Godfather as I'll often arrive at the plot to find he's cleared an area of brambles for me or dug a bit(I've taken on a 2nd!).

[debster]

chris g they look lovely mine are about that size but my plants dont look as good as yours

[jennym]

Last week was the third time I sowed runners - first and second sowing bit the dust, cold weather and flooding, then hot weather and slugs  :( will be lucky if I get any! French beans not so bad, but then they're only about 3 ft up the strings. The pics look fanatastic, you have done well  :)

[Chris Graham]

chris g they look lovely mine are about that size but my plants dont look as good as yours

Thanks debs, first time growing these, so it'll be interesting to see how things go.

[tonybloke]

this morning at the allotment.[attachment=1]

[bruno]

My runners now upto top of canes - should i pinch out the tips?

Also trying borlotti for the first time