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Runner beans
catherinerhodes
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in Fruit & veg
Just planting out runner bean seedlings, grown as instructions in pairs in small pot. Shouldthey be thinned to individual plants or left in pairsrot mature?
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Sorry post should read pairs to mature!
If they both germinate, I always plant the pot as it is and get great crops. You can guarantee that if you removed one, the slugs would get the one you left!
I grow mine in newspaper pots and planted them and pots straight into the ground on Saturday in the rain as they were getting rather big, (I got soaked by the way). I surrounded them with fleece and scattered slug pellets. Went to visit them today and they are romping away looking very healthy, glad that I got soaked now it was worth it.
Hi Verdun, no reduction that I've noticed. The trench is always very well prepared though, so plenty of room for them to find everything they need.
I use hazel poles and usually plant two per pole.....poles 1ft apart. Yes, it does get to be a bit of a jungle in late summer, but I seem to have enough beans to feed the neighbourhood.
I plant them two per cane - having sown the beans two to a pot in the GH. They geminate quickly, I harden them off quickly, and then get them into the garden before they are too large (or intertwined) to handle. Works for me. Load of beans in the late summer, and neighbours have been known to disappear as I trot up the road with a "few" in my basket.
I plant one per pole and save some in reserve as the damn pigeons love them. I could net but usually the originals survive. Might have to net this year as they appear greedy and twigs and sticks around beans aren't deterring them.
David K we've still got some in the freezer that we'd best eat or new crop won't seem special.
Never freeze them, KEF....would admit I've never quite got the hang of it, but they're orible when I do them.