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Advice Please Dwarf Beans
MRSTITTLEMOUSE
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I'm thinking of trying to grow some dwarf beans,the french variety.Trouble is I only have a yard garden and although it gets all the sun and is sheltered I would have to put the beans in troughs and grown them alongside my sweet peas.
I have no trouble growing tomatoes and strawberries like this but I've never tried beans.
Would It be a waste of time.Any advice would be appreciated.Thanks.
I have no trouble growing tomatoes and strawberries like this but I've never tried beans.
Would It be a waste of time.Any advice would be appreciated.Thanks.
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I've tried growing dwarf beans several times without success... I don't know what I was doing wrong... they always started ok, but after the first spurt didn't do much at all. This year I'm growing broad beans and runner beans instead, but would welcome any advice re: dwarf varieties for next year maybe.TOP MONEYSAVING TIP
Make your own Pot Noodles using a flower pot, sawdust and some old shoe laces. Pour in boiling water, stir then allow to stand for two minutes before taking one mouthful, and throwing away. Just like the real thing!0 -
No, not a waste of time. I grew both dwarf and climbers in containers and they were fine.
Start them off in deep pots, roottrainers, toilet roll innerds or something for the deep root to get their claws into - then transplant, and use a tomato feed once the flowers drop off. Keep picking them or they will stop producing flowers. Make a few sowings, a few weeks apart so when the first lot are dying you've got the next lot in situ ready to crop.0 -
I grew purple dwarf beans last year in a plastic trough. Not a huge crop but enough for DS and I to marvel at the way they turn green when you cook them:rotfl:0
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I'm not into dwarf beans unless they are special ones. You lavish the same amount of care as tall beans and you get a fraction of the crop for the same (horizontal) area.
Lean some poles up the wall and grow climbing french beans instead.
Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.0 -
Lotus-eater wrote: »I'm not into dwarf beans unless they are special ones. You lavish the same amount of care as tall beans and you get a fraction of the crop for the same (horizontal) area.
Lean some poles up the wall and grow climbing french beans instead.
Mine ARE special! They are pinto beans and i use them in chillis all year round. Cheeky.
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Lotus-eater wrote: »I know numnuts, that's why I said it, because you sent some to me
I've just packaged up yours btw.
It'll be flippin autumn before they get here!0 -
Patience is a virtue.Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.0
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