What's the earliest you can plant runner beans?

wellused

What's the earliest that you would put runner bean plants outside into containers?

Farway

Depends where you live

Isles of Scilly, do it now, Isle of Skye wait until July

wellused

East midlands?

Foxy0810

Mine are out now

wallbash

Foxy0810 wrote: »

Mine are out now

But will they survive the next frost?


Here in Herts wont start sowing for a few weeks , The runner bean season is long enough and you can only freeze so much.

Farway

Mine are out, in south Hampshire, had to as they were just outgrowing their loo rolls

I have put fleece around them, but do consider it a bit early even down here

TonyMMM

Mine (Buckinghamshire) will probably go out at the end of next week ....but I have some spares sown a couple of weeks later as a backup.

wellused

That's the thing this time last year we were into summer and if you remember we were in a drought, I know it seems hard to believe now.

Bunnygirl

Mine will be going out end of May the ground is just to wet to get ready. Need to find some room to sow them are they ok in a cold greenhouse?

Foxy0810

wallbash wrote: »

But will they survive the next frost?


Here in Herts wont start sowing for a few weeks , The runner bean season is long enough and you can only freeze so much.

I hope so lol, they quite hard I do have more seeds in seed tray in greenhouse everything will play catchup when the weather brightens well I hope so

I bought a tall freezer specifically to freeze my homegrown stuff not expecting to fill it but if I do I'll be amazed :T

wallbash

quote from Garden action web site ( and many others)

If unprotected, Runner Beans are in almost all cases damaged by any degree of frost.