What Is Happening?

Hi All,

After a very long 4-5 months I am finally back! Wahooooo! It's good to catch up with you crazy bunch.

However, I have a couple of problems...

1. My french beans are not climbing they have stayed the same height for about 2 months. I am so confused as they were big when we put them in as we left it a little later due to the weather deciding it was going to freak out

and

2. My courgettes have not grown alot either. This time last year they were a huge bush but this year they are scrawny and straggly.

So yet again I ask can any of you help the fallen

Thankyou
Bex
xx

 

I had a year like that a couple of years ago, I put it down to my compost, changed my supplier, local hardware shop only has one type.

 

Wotcha Bexy

Same problem, not been consistently warm. Goin on the spreadability of butter, before the past few days there has only been 1 or 2 days where the stuff was warm enough to spread. So if the butter's not having it, neither are the plants.

Not much of a summer so far

 

At least you can nuke the butter in a microwave to speed up the process

 

Move to beautiful Worcestershire. Todays seen our lowest temperature and we've still had 21 deg.

 

Like I've got a microwave in a 12 volt powered caravan

 

A reliable backup when your oven only has two temperatures: on and off!

 

@Zigs spreadability of butter?? I have never heard of that gardening technique lol

@shiney I hope so, I have a show in less than 2 months....

@"M" I know someone who grew bean sprouts by blasting them in the microwave on a daily basis however he was very crazy

@JWK My tomatoes love it though this year they have been going bonkers...

I am thinking of putting a feed on them that my local trading hut on the allotment has they call it potato special and it has a combo of 5-10-10 in it do you think this will work? I have been using coffee instead of muck this year and by golly do the onions and runner beans love it. This is what I don't understand my runner beans are at the top of the pergola style support made out of netting and canes but the french beans are still how they were months ago....

 

If you have any chicken pellets and if you have I would sprinkle some along the rows and water in.A lot of my plants were coming along very slow despite copious amounts of compost spread onto the ground and rotavated in,but once the pellets got down into the roots the stuff has started to move and I can't believe the size of the leaves and some of the stalks on our rhubarb this year This is what they look like after two pickings...

 

So.... I found out what happened to my french beans,

I may or may not have read the packet wrong...

They turned out to be dwarf french beans...

On a happy note they really loved the coffee this year and are cropping very nicely