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Hi there, I'm a teacher about to impart some of my limited of knowledge of planting to 4/5 year old children. I wanted to show how fruit and veg grow from seeds and was going to get them to split a runner bean open, identify the 'seeds

I planted my runner beans back in May and after a very tramatic start thanks to the slugs eating them they have grown really well and are really lush.  I have beans on them that are about 4 inches long and a lot more coming too. As this is my first

Hi, I planted some broad beans and sweet peas in polystyrene pots in my garage, they are one sprouting up. When can I plant them outside please? They need to go in a cold frame for a while first -to harden off and toughen up-so not yet.

i have sown some broad beans this week, this will be my first ever try. i have never tasted them before and i'm wondering what all the fuss is about. can anybody tell me what they taste like? hello,it's my firstseason, last year I helped an elderly

Any tips on dealing with the blackfly please? First time growing runner beans myself and have just cropped them but noticed blackfly on some of the beans and I think they have been left a little too long as some are nearly 12" long now. We live

I have usually grown two varieties of runner beans each year tryng to find the best flavoured, stringless runner bean. I have come to the conclusion that white flowered varieties are better at setting big crops. Polestar was very good last year

I am sure that I read somewhere that putting down holly leaves will deter mice from eating newly planted peas or beans. Why not invest in the cheaper end of the cloche market -a couple of low profile 1x mtre polytunnels or similar won't cost

Hi Kate ,That's what gardening is all about,Who care's more than the gardener,Oldchippy. Hi Kate ,I have also planted my first Broad Beans out in the veg garden I am trying to create, no idea what I am doing so have also planted some in degradable

I'm having problems ths year with dwarf beans. I sowed 30 'Speedy' beans in individual 3" pots (haven't grown Speedy before). All my seeds are raised in a very large, heated garden room that has plenty of light. Of the 30 only 9 germinated. I

Can someone please tell me how many years you can safely grow runners beans in the same piece of ground. Safely as in pest and disease build up? I can only relate my experience-I have grown beans on the same bit of ground for probably the last 15