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Help I need your help with my runner beans

angiestoneageangiestoneage Posts: 19
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can anyone please help me. I’ve had this problem a couple of years. The plants start off healthy and start to flower and then they get discoloured, go limp and die. The little beans shrivel up.
I was watering thoroughly every day and thought maybe I was over doing it so stopped for a few days and today they are worse than ever.
i didn’t grow them on the same plot and bought fresh seeds. They have been planted in horse manure.
heres a couple of photos taken today 
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  • philippasmith2philippasmith2 Posts: 3,742
    Do you mean fresh horse manure ?  Not advisable for anything really as it needs to sit and break down for quite a while.

  • nick615nick615 Posts: 1,487
    PS to Philippa -  All the pea/bean family prefer an alkaline soil so, if there's a risk your horse manure is too acid,  I should add some granulated lime round the plants so that your waterings will take it down.  Whenever I feel my beans aren't maturing as they should, lime usually solves the problem.
  • angiestoneageangiestoneage Posts: 19
    The horse manure is delivered to our allotments by a local farmer. Lots of people have it delivered and their beans seem ok. 
    Maybe there’s too much. I have no dig plots.
    I will definitely try the lime treatment. Thank you so much 
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    My beans had been cropping really well until the very hot spell … then we had a few days of shrivelled yellow beans. Now they seem to have recovered and we’re getting good beans again. 
    We give ours a lot of water .., I put the sprinkler between the two rows at least 20 mins every other day … every day during the hot spell. 
    You simply cannot overwater runner beans planted in the ground.  Yours do look a bit thirsty compared to ours. 



    Ours are ‘Moonlight’ a self-fertile variety … but if yours are a traditional variety it can be helpful to spray the flowers with water in the morning especially during warm drug spells as this will help the beans to ‘set’. 

    Hope that helps. 😊 

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





  • MikeOxgreenMikeOxgreen Posts: 812
    You can't put plants in poo, it is a waste product and not compost.
    Once it's been processed correctly then it becomes compost.
  • angiestoneageangiestoneage Posts: 19
    Thanks I’ve been watering my beans every day. We’re not allowed hosepipes so it’s can watering. I never use a rose just soak each plant.

    regards horse manures. This is well rotted and used by everyone on my allotment with no problems. In fact all my other veg is doing well.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    edited August 2022
    It’s been a difficult year … the best you can grow is to keep the roots moist and spray or mist  the flowers with a hand mister. 

    If your soil is prone to drying out it might be a good idea to prepare a ‘bean trench’ next spring for next years beans 🤞 . 

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





  • nick615nick615 Posts: 1,487
    angiestoneage  I grow 24 plants in a circle, all feeding on a central 'pit' of soggy compost lined with quite a thickness of newsprint that I save throughout the year.  It's an option you could try?
  • angiestoneageangiestoneage Posts: 19
    Wow that’s interesting. Can you give me more photos please ?
  • angiestoneageangiestoneage Posts: 19
    Do you think I could use cardboard instead of newspapers? 
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