Gransnet forums

Gardening

Beans not thriving

(30 Posts)
Nanagem Mon 01-Jul-19 09:40:52

I love gardening, though my mobility is limited theses days, and I don’t know why I haven’t interacted with the gardening thread before.

Anyway, advice anyone , I always grow runner and French beans both in the tubs and a row in the ground though space limited. I have always had success, beans growing out my ears !, this year though they are sooo slow hardly growing at all since I planted themout. DH says that when he walked passed the allotments this morning other people’s seem the same, maybe I’m impatient this year. My tomatoes in the green house have only just started to flower.

How’s everybody else doing ?

jusnoneed Sat 03-Aug-19 08:17:03

Our runner beans have certainly caught up, we have so many we are inundated at the moment!
Also in Dorset hillwalker70.

We had a lot of french beans too but my OH seems to rather leave them on the plants than pick them, so a lot gone too far. It's an annoying habit of his - I go to get a few for a meal and find loads sat on the plants.

Tomato plants are producing well, the outside ones looking good.

hillwalker70 Sat 03-Aug-19 09:40:46

The year of the Bean in Dorset then, yes, have to be picked before the bean forms inside and no strings!

Daisymae Sat 03-Aug-19 11:20:41

In the SE and our runner beans have grown really well. In fact its difficult to get past them. However most of the flowers have dropped and there are very few beans. Thinking of pulling them up and planting some rocket. Except the slugs seem to like the seedlings too much! This growing your own is a pain!!

Liz46 Sat 03-Aug-19 11:26:24

My dwarf french beans have done well (in the NW) but the strawberries have not done so well this year. The outdoor tomatoes are thriving. We have eaten some but have loads more developing.