Yes pot them up once they have sprouted. The sprout is the root so make sure that is pointing down. Place the pots somewhere warm and sunny and the bean should appear and form leaves in a few days.
Think I may now have a lot of beans... The ones I planted directly into the soil are starting to come through as well suddenly. One month after sowing which is really odd.
Strange as it's a raised bed and I live in central London so can't think it was that the soil was too cool.
The ones outside don't look great though. Pretty straggly and struggling to shed the seed cap. I might I guess replace them from the ones I have in pots inside.
Depending on how close you have planted your beans, you should get away with them in two's, as I suspect the original ones will start croping earlier than the new batch
I grow Cobra every year from saved seed and usually they crop from the second half of July for a few weeks. This year mine are very slow, they've been out for a couple of weeks and I think it's been too cold at nights.
I have to report that the dwarf French beans I mentioned in an earlier post, sown direct about two weeks ago, have all germinated but they are tiny and yellow and stunted, with leaves about the size of my little finger nail. Again, I think low overnight temperatures may be to blame (down to 5 or 6 last night), so today I sowed some more in modules in the mini-greenhouse.
Last year (before I moved to present house) I had more beans than you could shake a stick at! I planted them in the cardboard middles from loo rolls, 2 per tube on seed tray. Kept damp then planted the whole thing in the 'potager' when about 6" high. I did use slug pellets as they make excellent snail and slug fodder - also lined the trench with newspaper as beans need lots of moisture. I hosed the flowers when they appeared with fine spray ( helps to set them) and removed some of the very large leaves as there was masses of foliage. I watered them every night in dry spells and I had so many beans there was hardly room in my freezer. Do pick them often and try not to let them get too big or they will be horrid and stringy.
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Yes pot them up once they have sprouted. The sprout is the root so make sure that is pointing down. Place the pots somewhere warm and sunny and the bean should appear and form leaves in a few days.
Strange as it's a raised bed and I live in central London so can't think it was that the soil was too cool.
The ones outside don't look great though. Pretty straggly and struggling to shed the seed cap. I might I guess replace them from the ones I have in pots inside.
Depending on how close you have planted your beans, you should get away with them in two's, as I suspect the original ones will start croping earlier than the new batch
I grow Cobra every year from saved seed and usually they crop from the second half of July for a few weeks. This year mine are very slow, they've been out for a couple of weeks and I think it's been too cold at nights.
I have to report that the dwarf French beans I mentioned in an earlier post, sown direct about two weeks ago, have all germinated but they are tiny and yellow and stunted, with leaves about the size of my little finger nail. Again, I think low overnight temperatures may be to blame (down to 5 or 6 last night), so today I sowed some more in modules in the mini-greenhouse.
Last year (before I moved to present house) I had more beans than you could shake a stick at! I planted them in the cardboard middles from loo rolls, 2 per tube on seed tray. Kept damp then planted the whole thing in the 'potager' when about 6" high. I did use slug pellets as they make excellent snail and slug fodder - also lined the trench with newspaper as beans need lots of moisture. I hosed the flowers when they appeared with fine spray ( helps to set them) and removed some of the very large leaves as there was masses of foliage. I watered them every night in dry spells and I had so many beans there was hardly room in my freezer. Do pick them often and try not to let them get too big or they will be horrid and stringy.