Peas and Beans

I don't know if I should say this but I had success with both... more than 7kg runners beans and more to come and 5lb peas maybe more... they were tasty as well ☺

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Well, I used rock dust. .....I can sometimes get horse manure when the police horses have gone past!

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Sorry, didn't give enough info.......I plant everything in containers, and train the peas and beans up the fence......last year they were fine, this year I have none!! [emoji26] And I followed the same procedure as last year......

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, that made me really chuckle @leonora!
You could buy some farmyard manure from a garden centre or a DIY shop. I generally dig a trench put some manure in then back fill it.
I have this image of you with your wellies & coat on bucket in one hand spade in the other scooping the horse muck off the road with traffic zooming past ....

 

I've had to eat more than that by myself and more than once a day. Grown 100 Runner Bean plants this year and Mrs Scrungee suddenly announced she didn't want to eat them any more so I've had them all to myself. Perhaps it was a good thing that some failed?

 

Maybe you should try growing beans from some of our collected seeds and seedlings as they're quite prolific.




Here is a runner bean that I threw into a grow bag on a whim - it contained 20L of spent compost and two handfuls of slow release organic fertiliser.

Just drop by and the Stamford Hill Community Garden would be very happy to give you some bean seeds and/or seedlings (next March for seedlings) for you to try.


More runner beans from part of the second flush of blooms I mentioned earlier.

 

We had to grow ours in a different location due to puppy now large dog problem, he weeds indiscriminately and digs anything freshly planted.
The beans were so so but the peas never even made it passed 6 inches and everything else was abysmal, but next year ho ho Santa we will have a greenhouse ( just have to Finnish it ) and bare patch of soil and the lean to green house all fenced off so watch out plants.

 

Thanks for the offer.....where would I find you?

 

Iv'e been growing blue lake (french climbing) for the past 4yrs and iv'e done well with them again this year , my wife and I prefer these to runners and to be honest I get just as good a crop from them in the same space! and with the climbing frenchies you don't have to bend down to far to pick em .