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Produce => Edible Plants => Topic started by: tonybloke on March 14, 2009, 19:47:44

Title: Runner beans 'white lady'
Post by: tonybloke on March 14, 2009, 19:47:44
taken last wed
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Title: Re: Runner beans 'white lady'
Post by: OllieC on March 14, 2009, 19:54:52
Looking good there mate... Mine are still in the packet!
Title: Re: Runner beans 'white lady'
Post by: Levi on March 14, 2009, 19:55:25
'Bloomin' eck!! What's your secret please?
Title: Re: Runner beans 'white lady'
Post by: Hyacinth on March 14, 2009, 20:06:23
Quote from: OllieC on March 14, 2009, 19:54:52
Looking good there mate... Mine are still in the packet!

mine too :-\
Title: Re: Runner beans 'white lady'
Post by: tim on March 14, 2009, 20:08:58
Secret ? Glasshouse!!

Title: Re: Runner beans 'white lady'
Post by: RSJK on March 14, 2009, 20:11:01
Will they be kept in the greenhouse Tony and if so have you insects in there to pollinate them, or do beansnot need pollinating.
Title: Re: Runner beans 'white lady'
Post by: saddad on March 14, 2009, 20:28:42
They do need pollinating Richard, but some I grew in the big schools greenhouse cropped well last year... but that was later in the season...  :-\
Title: Re: Runner beans 'white lady'
Post by: tonybloke on March 14, 2009, 22:22:04
they will be grown on in the greenhouse, then transfered to the shade tunnel to harden off before becoming part of a garden design project for our college open day on june 7th ( also my birfday) pollination will be by hand early on, and then by bees from  some of the colleges 30 or so beehives!
Title: Re: Runner beans 'white lady'
Post by: tim on March 15, 2009, 08:24:16
Pollination? That's why mine were 'Hunter' beans!
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