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    Beans - French and Runner

    My French and Runner beans have outgrown their root trainers/ been potted on and are now going mad in their pots - they are starting to need support and taking up all the work top in my greenhouse.

    Forecast looks frost free for the next week and i am in the South of England….

    Should i plant them out this week?
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  • #2
    Before you can plant then out, you will need to give them a week hardening them off somewhere like a cold frame, or sheltered position on the patio. If you plant them straight out they will sulk and sometimes never get going again.

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    • #3
      My runners were planted a week ago and are thriving.

      French beans planted yesterday and borlotti and Czar done today.
      The proof of the growing is in the eating.
      Leave Rotten Fruit.
      Nitrogen, Phosphorus, Potasium - potash.
      Autant de têtes, autant d'avis!!!!!
      Il n'est si méchant pot qui ne trouve son couvercle.

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      • #4
        Do you have a plan if there's frost forcast teakdesk?

        The trouble with beans, well the trouble I have with beans, is that they thrive then they're dead! There doesn't seem to be much in between.
        With some plants...tomatoes for example, they sulk and slouch so you know they're unhappy....and sometimes with a bit of TLC they perk up again (although I suspect it might leave them slightly weakened later on)
        With beans one cold night and you awake to a row of dead plants and nothing can be salvaged.

        Each to their own and all that, but I'd harden them off well and then keep an eye on the weather. Have some fleece or net curtains ready in the wings. I'm in London and lost a whole crop to frost on 6th of June one year...beans, Qs, peppers and sweetcorn.

        The English weather can be fickle.
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        • #5
          I do have a second sowing as replacements but it is normally just for the ones hit by slugs.

          To be honest I've never had a crop affected by frost (famous last words!) and I used to plant out towards the end of April.

          I maybe should have said that my plants are at least 9 inches tall with their second leaf set before they go out and have been hardened off well. Looking around at other plots I'm not alone in having beans planted out.

          Picture of last week's planting taken today.
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          The proof of the growing is in the eating.
          Leave Rotten Fruit.
          Nitrogen, Phosphorus, Potasium - potash.
          Autant de têtes, autant d'avis!!!!!
          Il n'est si méchant pot qui ne trouve son couvercle.

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          • #6
            At the moment the nights are quite chilly, but should be milder this week, that's when I will harden of my runner beans.
            They will soon overtake anyone's earlier plantings.
            Last edited by fishpond; 16-05-2016, 04:37 AM.
            Feed the soil, not the plants.
            (helps if you have cluckies)

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            • #7
              Thanks
              How much hardening off do i need to do when i bean have been in an unheated greenhouse?

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              • #8
                I would give them a good week - outside somewhere sheltered during the day and back in at night, then moving to somewhere more exposed during the day and into the sheltered spot overnight.
                This year I had everything hardened off and living outside and then it turned cold for two weeks and then with another week of hardening off again, I was three weeks behind! But better that than a row of dead plants
                Le Sarramea https://jgsgardening.blogspot.com/

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                • #9
                  I've had to start again with hardening off too after cold weather forcing me to bring everything inside. The great british PITA

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                  • #10
                    Temperature is very much local micro climate, that some people have beans outside in some parts of the country

                    Mine were under fleece in the greenhouse on Friday, when temp went down to 3C - they really aren't happy, gone all floppy, and I think I'll have to start again.
                    Plot next door's are dead and gone

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                    • #11
                      I re-started hardening off French Beans yesterday. The runner beans have not been up long so they will get another week of shelter before hardening off and planting out at the end of the month.
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                      • #12
                        My runners are in the cold greenhouse now but only sowed my Frenchies yesterday as they're more tender

                        Some of us live in the past, always talking about back then. Some of us live in the future, always planning what we are going to do. And, then there are those, who neither look behind or ahead, but just enjoy the moment of right now.

                        Which one are you and is it how you want to be?

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                        • #13
                          My runner beans have been out hardening off for a good week so I planted them out yesterday.

                          Ive found runner beans to tolerate lower temps than french beans, as long as there isnt a frost they should be fine

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                          • #14
                            Originally posted by maverick451 View Post
                            My runner beans have been out hardening off for a good week so I planted them out yesterday.

                            Ive found runner beans to tolerate lower temps than french beans, as long as there isnt a frost they should be fine
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                            • #15
                              My runners were planted out exactly a week ago. 3 are really thriving. 1 is ok. They are about half way up the 8 ft bamboo canes. Apart from one cold evening when I fleeced them, it's been quite warm overnight here. Fingers crossed we don't get frost now because I don't have any spares

                              I had hardened them off for about a week beforehand. I had read that they don't like getting too cold and also don't like too much wind (who does!) so I have netting round them and little bubble wrap jackets for the tips when the weather is duff.
                              LOVE growing food to eat in my little town back garden. Winter update: currently growing overwintering onions, carrots, lettuce, chard, salad leaves, kale, cabbage, radish, beetroot, garlic, broccoli raab, some herbs.

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