Stretching your Legumes - 2020 Challenge

[Mamzie]

If you're reading this thread, you know in your heart of hearts you want to join in... I'm taking the challenge a bit loosely. Won't be picking fresh legumes every month but will be growing new ones and eating them all year round.

ah, now I like this version, I can join in along with this. Broad beans chitted earlier and planted today. No sign of life beside mould with the peas through, so am gonna try again for our first every lot of pea shoots x

[veggiechicken]

Its the cold weather, NG, its numbing my brain!

Probably as well as it was nearly called "Have a pea a week".
Subtitled "Crossing your legumes".

There's nothing "serious" about my little challenges - just look at the Tromba one.

https://www.growfruitandveg.co.uk/gr...ghlight=tromba

Well baring in mind I was expecting you to have come up with something similar to cucumber straightening or weighing down of beans whilst growing to 'stretch them' I think this is actually a very serious (and worryingly) sensible challenge. Are you feeling ok?

[veggiechicken]

Its your mind!!

"He's not Snadger - he's a very naughty boy"

[Snadger]

Must be my mind. The title of this thread seems mildly pornographic.

[Snoop Puss]

# be warned peeps - VC challenges are for serious nutters I gave up after trying to look after around 100 tomato plants one year!

If you're reading this thread, you know in your heart of hearts you want to join in... I'm taking the challenge a bit loosely. Won't be picking fresh legumes every month but will be growing new ones and eating them all year round.

[veggiechicken]

I hate my frozen beans - they're yuk!! I've thrown them all to the chooks. Hence this little Challenge - so that I never ever have to eat another frozen bean, well , not this year anyway!

[Chestnut]

Not sure I can handle 2 challenges at once! TBH, it takes until about February to finish the frozen beans, and I still have some dried runners in the cupboard in the garge which I’m keping for soups during the hungry gap...

[veggiechicken]

There's nothing "serious" about my little challenges - just look at the Tromba one.

https://www.growfruitandveg.co.uk/gr...ghlight=tromba

[Small pumpkin]

Sorry I�m busy
I don�t think I�d manage it anyway. But under normal circumstances I�d of given it a go

[Vegi potager]

I am already planning a range of dwarf and climbing FB. peas and mangetout. Both for pods and beans. The (Dwarf)broads are already coming up with more going in later
Only planning 1 runner this year, Gigantes, for the beans. Not keen on runners otherwise.

Last year I spent 45p? on some dried peas from the supermarket to grow for shoots which worked well. Only I just found the last of them in the GH, they got left in there from last August? I may have to break the bank and spend another 50p if they don't germinate this year

I won't make Jan, and feb will be pea shoots only if they germinate.

[veggiechicken]

Welcome, FBI.
I'm always setting little Challenges for myself and any willing volunteers.

[FBI]

Well as I already have BB plants outside and more sprouting in the GH, plus having put peas in 7 buckets last week, I suppose I'd best join in :-)

[Snoop Puss]

I'll stretch my legs, but in a different way. Having decided it's too much effort and possibly not even worth growing veg in my main patch, I'm going to grow some drought-resistant legumes down in the fields. Sow in spring, not water and see what happens.

[burnie]

SWMBO doesn't go much for beans, I will grow a few peas and broad beans for me but not to last all year, I'd love to grow proper Butter Beans, but I believe that might be close to impossible this far north.