I think Raisingirl is quite right - it depends where you are. I try to keep a note each year of the last frost here and can normally plant out about the middle of May. Some years you win, some years you lose! As there's usually lots of beans in a packet, you can always sow them more as a back up when you plant the first lot out.
I need to sow mine ... I'm very tempted to sow them direct in about ten days time so they don't need babysitting while we're away for the second half of the month ... what do you think folks?
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Mine were growing so tall I decided I had to repot them this morning, so put them in much bigger pots and staked with 2 cornus twigs each to support the stems. They were growing an inch or more a day! At the moment they are sitting on the sink draining board but grandchildren expected for lunch tomorrow so I'll have to move them up to the loft, along with all the other seed trays sitting in their bedroom! I'm fast running out of space and time.
That’s what happens Lizzie, that’s why the recommended sowing time is 1st May. When they do go out they will be big enough to fend for themselves, that’s one consolation.
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Old country saying about sowing peas and beans: "One for the pigeon, one for the crow, one to rot and one to grow."
When they do go out they will be big enough to fend for themselves, that’s one consolation.