sonesta french beans

[aquilegia]

The germination of my sonesta french beans has been really poor. They seem to have mostly rotted off. Other beans, sown at same time and treated the same, have been much better. Mostly I seem to get less than half germinated.

Is this a problem with the variety or just my batch of seeds?

[aquilegia]

[goodlife]

I don't think it is the seeds...quite few of us has mentioned having problems with some of the beans..I had couple of varieties that failed totally to germinate in first time..
I think because we've had this unusual warm weather..for UK.. ::)..we are watering maybe differently..well I know that I am..and maybe too heavy handedly..mine totally rotted off without germinating..but it was only those two varieties..others were fine..
So..that is what I think anyway...others may disagree... ???

[Robert_Brenchley]

If other beans you planted at the same time were OK, it's probably just the batch of seed.

[rbull]

Down here in Surrey a lot of people seem have had very poor germination of dwarf French beans.  I have had 4 goes with 3 different varieties. No luck at all with those planted straight into the ground. Only one lot germinated at all, in modules, but unfortunatley got eaten by rabbits as soon as planted out.  So it is a complete wash-out this year for me.  No problem with runner beans though.

[aquilegia]

Of the last 12 sonestas that I sowed, 2 have germinated. They are alongside the Dig-in french beans in root trainers. Most of those germinated. They got exactly the same treatment.

So of approx 36 that I sowed, I have less than 10 plants.

I think I'll try a different variety next time!

[chriscross1966]

 I had epic failz with several bean varieties. I got none frmo Dutch brown Dwarf, only two out of about forty five (three varieties in total) soy beans and a complete no-show from some year-old  commercial yin-yang seed (made up for by good germination of some self-saved seeds). in each case they seeds were in modules next to beans of other varieties that had no problems.

chrisc