It is interesting to hear how many beans some posters are getting this year. I am eaten up with jealousy.
I know some people who eat frozen runner beans with Xmas dinner. They eat frozen Brussel sprouts around now.
Dove, Central Norfolk? You have it pretty dry most years. Are you on clay soil? My beans grow on the above-mentioned acid sand blended in the bean tench with 50% home-made compost. Vegetative growth and flowering has been good thid year. But just not the setting.
location: Surrey Hills, England, ex-woodland acidic sand. "Have nothing in your garden that you don't know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."
Clay ... here @bédé ? Nope, no such luck ... we're on very shallow gritty stuff over chalk which is almost at the surface here ... we have a mediaeval chalk quarry within metres of here. Added to which we're on a hillside which was 'terraced' to provide level building plots.
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I know some people who eat frozen runner beans with Xmas dinner. They eat frozen Brussel sprouts around now.
Dove,
Central Norfolk? You have it pretty dry most years. Are you on clay soil? My beans grow on the above-mentioned acid sand blended in the bean tench with 50% home-made compost. Vegetative growth and flowering has been good thid year. But just not the setting.
"Have nothing in your garden that you don't know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."
"Have nothing in your garden that you don't know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."
Its described on here as 'sand and gravel ... sedimentary bedrock' ...
https://geologyviewer.bgs.ac.uk/?_ga=2.92607069.1596031623.1662198553-1760057793.1662198553
https://webapps.bgs.ac.uk/lexicon/lexicon.cfm?pub=CRAG
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.