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Runner beans

srdsrd Posts: 34
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First year attempt. Grown in long roottrainers fabulously well in doors. Last few weeks transplanted into bigger pots and left in unheated greenhouse—- look as all colour has left them and they are almost soft.... going to start again..... why? What did I do wrong??

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  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    edited March 2021
    Far too early so they’re suffering from the cold. 

    I don’t sow mine until mid April ... then by the time they’re too big for the kitchen windowsills they can go in the coldframe and by the time they’re too tall for that they can be planted out ... usually at the end of May here in mid Norfolk. 



    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • nick615nick615 Posts: 1,487
    Yes, I agree with Dove.  I've admittedly just started mine off in trays under an old window, leaning against the wall of the house BUT I'm in SW Ireland not NE England
  • srdsrd Posts: 34
    yup - suspected a case of eager beaver🥴
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    edited March 2021
    I sow mine on the 1st May, plant out 1st of June. 

    The idea of the root trainers is that you don’t disturb the roots.  They’ll grow on big enough in the month without the need to pot on.
    that way there’s minimum disturbance when you plant them out. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • Jolly Gary the GardenerJolly Gary the Gardener Posts: 133
    I live in Crawley and sow my runner beans in April and plant out the second week in May
    Most Frost has gone by then
    This year I am using the plastic bamboo sticks for my beans
    Happy Gardening
  • nick615nick615 Posts: 1,487
    Jolly Gary the Gardener   As a Haywards Heath ex-pat (now in Ireland), I can give you a format for everlasting bean sticks if of use to you.  Mine already in their ninth year and counting.  nickatipixnetdotcom
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