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    This year and last year I've had no success with them, when the purple podded have been good.
    can anybody recommend a green variety that does well on a windy site?

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    I grow Cobra which seem to cope well with windy west Cumbria. I think the trick is not to put them out too early. A neighbour planted out hers in early May and they just sat and sulked. Mine went out at the end of May and they stormed away. Had some for tea tonight...yummy!

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    • #3
      Thnx, I direct sowed in mid May, cos we were having hot weather
      I'll start them in pots next year and hope for success

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      • #4
        My beans have been rubbish this year; try again next. The purple ones are hardier than green ones. I have a lovely green one called Kwintus that I've saved from [the original seeds were part of a batch of ones that hadn't germinated well enough for HSL so I nabbed them and they all germinated fine for me ] - I picked the first dried pod last night so I'll have a fair few in a few weeks. If you poke me when I post about them in the seed swap, I'll send you some.

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        • #5
          I grow Cobra, but this year they have been pathetic. Will try again next year and hope for better growing conditions.

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          • #6
            You won't get sites much windier than mine: the sunflowers grow horizontally
            I don't have a problem with Frenchies: they just grow, up a frame of four canes tied together, no probs. I think your problem is to do with something else (temp?), not wind.
            Last edited by Two_Sheds; 17-08-2011, 08:01 AM.
            All gardeners know better than other gardeners." -- Chinese Proverb.

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            • #7
              I use double rows of canes for climbing french and runner beans. They are always grown in the same place, 4 foot from the long low west facing boundry hedge. This protects the plants and once you get them past the 2 foot stage there is no holding em back.
              This was taken a few weeks ago. We are now cropping every time we go down.

              Roger
              Its Grand to be Daft...

              https://www.youtube.com/user/beauchief1?feature=mhee

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              • #8
                im with solway cropper,we have been growing them for 7/8 years and always a good crop,we get gales straight off the ocean and they have survived 80+ winds,but i put them in quite deep and start them of in g/house,use old school fencing pinned to a 2x2 timbers with two long legs to bury 2ft+ into the soil,i had a plastic g/house but it dissappeared in 100mph+winds in 2002,so rest assured they have now been trialed for windy sites...

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                • #9
                  thanks all, zazen, I'll prod you gently later on LOL

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