How high are your climbing beans?

[Jamesy_uk]

8" or so, if that and because it's quite exposed they keep getting knocked down again.

[veggiechicken]

A quick Five bar gate count of the posts on this thread shows that, of the 19 posts that include measurements, 15 are in Imperial and 4 Metric. Old practices die hard

[Matt94]

A quick Five bar gate count of the posts on this thread shows that, of the 19 posts that include measurements, 15 are in Imperial and 4 Metric. Old practices die hard

yep thats true, everyone i know thats my parents age or above uses imperial, but everyone i know uses both imperial and metric. For example when i say to my mum that a plant grows to 25cm - she says what that in old money? and every time i tell her how to convert, but she doesn't listen

[VirginVegGrower]

A quick Five bar gate count of the posts on this thread shows that, of the 19 posts that include measurements, 15 are in Imperial and 4 Metric. Old practices die hard

I don't like new stuff!

[Andromeda]

I use a mix of imperial and metric - metric at work, imperial when I'm cooking/baking and whichever is most convenient at the time anywhere else.

As for my beans, my dwarf french are 2.5 ft and my runners are just under 7 ft (stopped at that height as any higher would make harvest very difficult).

[hamesy]

My dwarf french beans are around 6-10 inches.

[Scarlet]

Most of my runners are between 3-4ft but with this wind I'm afraid they've not got many leaves and the few remaining ones left are in tatters!
My borlotti beans are at a standstill around 10inch - leaves are yellow. Half of my french beans are out and bent or broken so I'm keeping my back ups inside until the wind calms

[rinabean]

My climbing beans are just 30cm tall, but at least they're going now, they had been stuck for a long time at 6". No sign at all of the dwarf french beans, but those were only sown last week.

[Niall]

Highest Runner is now over 8 feet... not sure whats going on with it but you can look at it in the morning, then and night and you can see the difference. I have about 3 others over 6 feet and then the rest are between 2 and 4 feet.
French beans... about 1.5 feet, had ones higher but they died after a battering of wind.

[Leeds_lad]

Only really just planted mine a few days ago, so their height? nothing =p

[Two_Sheds]

I have lost one whole planting due to unexpected cold spell

I lost loads of stuff this year, to rotting: due to the cold, dark miserable weeks (and weeks, and weeks)

My gardening book says harvest from the end of June - I think not.

I usually get something edible after 3 months (that's from seed to plate)

Mine are at the top of 7ft canes...or are they 8ft. Have had a couple of meals off them

Wow!
Were yours in your conservatory or something?

I use a mix of imperial and metric

Me too. Dressmaking & school in metric, gardening in imperial (though I find it very difficult to mix the two).


My best beans are the butterbeans, 3ft tall. The best runners are 18", and the best French are about 10" : and all the plants are spindlier, weaker, than they ought to be. Absolutely terrible, I've never known a year like it.

[eirish]

Runners were ranging 12-18" tall last I checked, French beans maybe 10-12". Runners had a couple of weeks' head start. I need to finish tying them in but it's so nice and warm and dry inside...

[Rabidbun]

My runners are around a foot up the poles, or snail food.

My french beans are perhaps 6 inches if I count the raised loo rolls they are in.

My dwarf ones are not much better and also feeding the snails.

I tend to estimate lengths and weigh ingredients in imperial but do most other things in metric out of habit from teaching Physics.

[Newton]

My French beans are climbing to less than 30cm. My runners are miles better.........around 2ft

[Two_Sheds]

My French beans are climbing to less than 30cm. My runners are miles better.........around 2ft

It just goes to show: runners prefer damp cool weather, Frenchies prefer hot drier weather