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No runner beans yet this year....

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  • EustaceEustace Posts: 2,290
    I am growing Moonlight too, along with Enorma. Both are producing a good amount of beans. During last week's heatwave, few of the beans were half shrivelled. Some newly set beans had dried too. However, there is lots of new flowers since then.
    Oxford. The City of Dreaming Spires.
    And then my heart with pleasure fills,
    And dances with the daffodils (roses). Taking a bit of liberty with Wordsworth :)

  • SiobhancantgardenSiobhancantgarden Posts: 70
    Uff said:
    Out misting the runner beans first thing and I spied a little un. Pure joy and worth a pic, goes away whistling and humming to fetch the phone.


    Yay!! :)@Dovefromabove you said you cut yours down to ground level. When...? Do they re-grow?
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    edited August 2022
    We cut them down in the autumn … the roots have nitrogen fixing nodules on them so we leave the roots in the ground as old gardening lore says they release the nitrogen into the soil as they decompose over the winter.  However last winter was so mild that they survived ... we planted lots of lettuces and chard where the beans were last year, and the beans popped up and began to grow.  OH put some canes in but some of the stems are sprawling amongst the other veg ... and they are producing beans.  It's happened because of the very mild winter we had ... you can't rely on it, and they're not  big lush plants like the ones I sowed this year.

    The ‘proper’ row I sowed have started producing well again despite the hot weather ... this is my haul this morning 




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





  • REMF33REMF33 Posts: 731
    Sorry just posted on another bean thread! People round here (SE London) are not getting any/many runner beans. I have getting enough French beans but perhaps not as many as one might expect given how many plants I have.
  • UffUff Posts: 3,199
    Unabated joy here, found 4 more tiddly beans this morning. By heck I'll have a meal out of them yet.
    SW SCOTLAND but born in Derbyshire
  • steephillsteephill Posts: 2,841
    Another Moonlight grower here, plenty of beans so far and lots more to come. Runner beans are also known as 7 year beans in warmer parts of Central and South America. If they don't get frosted they can come back in Spring for years as the name suggests. Growing as annuals from seed is so easy and cheap it isn't worth our while trying to keep them going in the UK.
  • SiobhancantgardenSiobhancantgarden Posts: 70
    REMF33 said:
    Sorry just posted on another bean thread! People round here (SE London) are not getting any/many runner beans. I have getting enough French beans but perhaps not as many as one might expect given how many plants I have.
    Yes I'm in SE London - good to know I'm not alone! :smile:
  • SiobhancantgardenSiobhancantgarden Posts: 70
    Now you're just showing off, @Dovefromabove ;) Looks amazing - well done! I've had loads of courgettes and toms are doing well. Just not beans....
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    edited August 2022
    Oh I dunno @Siobhancantgarden … a couple of weeks ago I was freezing a kilo of beans nearly every day … now it’s every other day 🙄 

    Anyone got any freezer-space I can rent …?

    😉 

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





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