Beans

[minxy]

Hi

This is my first year at growing anything so bear with me!

Amongst other things I am growing some dwarf runners and dwarf beans. The dwarf runners seem to have 'run up' a bit before I set them out. They have started getting flowers on but just don't seem to be growing much at all, am I likely to get anything off them. It is the same issue really with the ordinary dwarf beans. I had a cloche over them but have just taken this off.

[minxy]

[Flunky]

mine look a bit leggy too. My dwarf beans were planted out in toilet rolls and dont seem to be doing anything. I do have flowers on my runners but they are at the bottom of the plant. With not alot up top.   

[gibbonm]

Be patient - it's not June yet! Keep them watered and fed and they will come.

[Robert_Brenchley]

Most of my beans are fine but the yard long beans keeled over the moment they went out from the study windowsill to the mini greenhouse. They've now developed classic symptoms of damping off. First time I've had it.

[tonybloke]

welcome to the board, gibbonm
;)

[minxy]

Thanks for all the replies regarding my beans. I think it is a case of keeping them watered and fed and keeping fingers crossed!

It is all very exciting. This is my first year at growing anything and I am thoroughly enjoying it, think I definitely have the bug!! ;D

It is very satisfying to see the children picking the spinach and radishes and eating them straight from the garden!

[gibbonm]

Thanks Tonybloke.
I have a small veggie garden in Aberdeen - beautiful and dry but can be very cold so always a challenge using the shorter season than most here.  The cold doesn't seem to bother the slugs though!

[1066]

The cold doesn't seem to bother the slugs though!

Ain't that the way !!

And welcome to A4A

1066

[tonybloke]

jockanese slugs, hard as nails!!
(I used to work in aberdeen, had an ofice in brig-o-don, and yardspace at the docks)

[1066]

that's cos the make them out of granite up there  :D

[Barnowl]

I've only heard of one type of dwarf runner bean and that's Hestia but there doesn't seem to be any info on it's eventual height.

Anyway, beans generally put on a growth spurt round about now as the temperature goes up, but don't forget they need to be watered if it doesn't rain.

[saddad]

I grew Hestia in a small windowbox last year ( the remains of a 25p Wyvlae packet) they hadn't all gone in the sale... got to 18-24"...  :)

[Barnowl]

What do you reckon Saddad, worthwhile or better to stick to climbers if you have room?

PS Sorry for the misused apostrophe in previous post (I know what you teachers are like)  :)

[saddad]

A much bigger crop off climbers so, if you can, go for them every time.

Apostrophes were never my long suit, being a child of the 60's I had to be told on starting Grammar School that real names took capital letters...  :-[

it's eventual height

was it this? Should it have been its' eventual height? The other four are correct for contractions (missing letters) this needs one for "possession" but is it singular or plural?  :-\

[Barnowl]

it's eventual height

was it this? S

Yes - possessive pronoun, no apostrophe needed at all  :)

[lancelotment]

With you there saddad.  Learned to read using the ITA method that was being promoted in schools in the mid sixties.  Forty odd years later my spelling is still atrros  atrosci bad! Lance

[littlebabybird]

With you there saddad.  Learned to read using the ITA method that was being promoted in schools in the mid sixties.  Forty odd years later my spelling is still atrros  atrosci bad! Lance

We had phonetics in the early 70's, I still cant spell either
lbb

[bridgehouse]

Same here I can;t spell very well either.
      June.

[Rhubarb Thrasher]

we weren't supposed to be taught grammar, other than by osmosis, but the Head insisted and took the classes himself. The only grammar teaching aids he could get it seemed were from America, so it was all color, the Fall and whatnot. We never did find out who or what Arbor Day was. The sister of Doris, perhaps (chickened out about where the apostrophe goes)

[Hector]

Maybe if we all eat beans we will have healthy colons AND semi colons   ;D

ps never know when you use a colon/semi colon...comprehensive education of no grammer. I didn't know what a preposition was until I went to Uni and learning linguistics...guy thought I was a philis...philis....someone out the bible