My Runner Beans have been slow off the starting block

Posted on 11. Sep, 2009 by Tracey in My Veg Plot

My runner beans were sowed late this year in June to enable me to get a later crop into September. It hasn’t quite worked out the way I wanted it to.

Firstly my runner bean seedlings were attacked by slugs who were hiding under the dwarf beans, needless to say the slugs were swiftly destroyed,
Then I misjudged my wigwam structure’s size and made it to short. The runner beans raced up the 5 foot bamboo canes into no mans land and were just flailing in the wind, so new 8 foot canes were added,
Ok so I may have left them to fend for themselves waterwise during the hottest week whilst I was on holiday – human error, but I did read that runner beans are a forgiving crop,

And I wonder why my runner beans are not growing well!

I have had the flowers but only at the top of the runner bean plants and I can see the runner beans forming, I have had a total of 5 runner beans so far! I’m hoping I’ll get some more before the end of September.

I think my dwarf french beans have won the best performing beans this year.

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