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Growing runner beans
Started Mar. 24, 2009
Long runner beans
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Started this discussion. Last reply by Peter Mar. 28, 2009.
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The beans were very rough and coarse looking and we didn't fancy eating them. We also grew Stenner, a reselected Enorma variety, these were long by normal standards (18 inches) very prolific and excellent to eat.
Good grief that's a been and a half! Were they good eating?
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Just to finish the story off the beans were long, about 26 inches, (see photo). It came second in the county show, not much good in a longest bean competition. However the winner wasn't much longer. But I will stick to growing beans to eat in future.
Peter,
In South Africa my father used to grow stringless runner beans that were called 'Lazy housewife'. If I remember correctly these were very long and very abundant, but I'm not sure just how they'd do in the UK climate. I have seen the seeds loc…
Last year I decided to grow beans over an arch. Using hazel sticks from the garden I made a structure like a skeletal shed and covered it with plastic bean netting.
I got a very good crop which were easy to pick and will use it again.
In the photo…
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I want to enter a longest runner bean competion later this year, any ideas of best variety to try?
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Leaves on gravel
Somewhat belatedly I have been clearing last year's dead leaves off my gravel garden. I long ago discovered that leaf blowers will not move leaves until they blow so hard that the gravel flies everywhere and if you try to suck the leaves the gravel jams the machine.
The problem when collecting the leaves is that they are mixed with gravel which would spoil the compost and it is very time consuming to separate them. However I discovered that if you put the mixture into a large bucket, fill it wit… Continue
The problem when collecting the leaves is that they are mixed with gravel which would spoil the compost and it is very time consuming to separate them. However I discovered that if you put the mixture into a large bucket, fill it wit… Continue
Posted on April 27, 2008 at 5:04pm — 1 Comment
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