pea and french bean advice please.

[mummybunny]

Hi guys,

Just looking through my seeds to see what i can plant in the ground now. So i have found my kelvedon wonder peas and tendercrop dwarf french beans saying can go out now? I'm in the SW (Bristol) What do you think plus any extra tips on growing these would be great  ;D

Thanks Lucy

[mummybunny]

[saddad]

Peas, no problem... French Beans I'd leave until April.  :)

[mummybunny]

Thanks saddad will get my peas in today. On the planting guild on the french beans its saying i should be harvesting in April!!

Glad i asked now!

lucy  ;D

[saddad]

Sounds like a seeds of Italy pack!!
I'd sow the peas into 3" pots... 12 to a pot.. and then plant out when a few inches high...  :)

[mummybunny]

Thanks again just a pack i picked up in wilko's!!!

don't know what i would do without this forum  ;D

Thanks Lucy


P.S Don't suppose you know anything about chillies saddad i have a unanswered question in chillies ahoy  :P

[saddad]

I grow them, but I'm no expert. I'll go have a look!  :)

[mummybunny]

oops apparently theres 2 M's in the year ::) So yes i have planted french beans in march instead of may  :-[ Obviously that was the plan all along :P

Not Italian seeds after all just some donkey didn't read the packet correctly (Who Me Never  ;D 8))


Lucy

[KathrynH]

French Beans can be started off now in pots and planted out next month to give you an early crop. Mine went in yesterday.

[mummybunny]

What a bonus  ;D I knew there was a reason why i did it  :P


Thanks i can hold my head high to the OH who pointed out what i had done and couldnt stop laughing  :-*

Lucy

[raisedbedted]

French Beans can be started off now in pots and planted out next month to give you an early crop. Mine went in yesterday.

You're obviously somewhere a lot warmer than Surrey then  :)

French beans planted out in April would be very sulky and wave a white flag pretty quickly.

[Barnowl]

I'm sowing some indoors this week, but only runners (they're a bit less sensitive than french)  and only a few because  I'll have to plant the seedlings out in 4-6 weeks and we could still get a frost after that which would probably kill them or Knock them so far back they'll be overtaken by later plantings.

Some people protect with fleece during the first few weeks of planting out. Is that what you do KathrynH? Otherwise even in Twickers I would say you're taking something of a risk or do you succession plant anyway?

[KathrynH]

I'm sowing Modus French beans from The Organic Gardening Catalogue. The pack says sow March - May under glass and I did an early crop at around this time last year. Keep them in the greenhouse till they're a good few inches high then plant out, mid - late April, depending on the weather. I didn't bother with fleece. I had a great crop last year and am hoping for the same this year.

I meant to succession sow them last year but didn't get round to another crop. Didn't really matter though as by that time I was picking the broad beans and the runners were well underway.