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Question: which way do kidney beans grow up the sticks - clockwise or anti-clockwise??? Do you mean climbing French beans or runner beans? I honestly have never taken any notice, just loosely tied them in when they started to wrap around the canes

My climbing French beans are becoming more and more twisted as the season draws to a close. Does anybody know what causes it? - They are still picked and eaten.   The only time I had anything like that - they were more the V-shape than the curly

For several years I have been growing Runner Beans in containers, this is just to have an extra supply near the house, and indeed for interest. As there is a plentiful supply of farm yard manure I always place a generous amount in the base, and top

I've  grown a variety of beans and want to save some seeds to plant next year. Do I just wait for the plants to die off and the bean pods to dry on the plants?

ever, my autumn sown broad beans up here in the Fens have not over-wintered very well. I have been told to pinch out the top leaves at some stage (possibly when first flowers appear) to avoid black fly. Does any one know more about this? Hi Artjak - yes

Hi I am new to growing my own vegatables. My Runner bean plants were lovely when I put them out, they are now being eating by something and getting a bit straggly. Help? Would it help to know that I live in a wooded area? Slugs-probably-just a word

My Moonlight runner beans which are advertised as self pollinating are not converting to beans, the flowers are dropping off - can anyone help please You need bees!  Have patience, they will come.  In my experience runners take a little time until

I really should practice what I preach. What with one thing or another, I haven't harvested my broad beans as regularly as I should have. I blame Paul. It was his job to pick the beans on our last visit to the plot; he obviously harvested

We have a problem on our 48 allotments.   Everyone's runner beans, peas, beetroot leaves and sweetcorn are being eaten.  The beans are totally decimated up to 4 feet and the tops left intact.  The leaves and beans are all eaten but the main stalk

Last week I mentioned that my broad beans were mysteriously free from their usual curse of blackfly. Strictly speaking, blackfly isn't a black fly, but a 'black bean aphid'.And while my broad beans may be free from the pest this year, they normally