runner bean growth

hi all...how can you stop runner beans growing so they start filling out and start throwing the beans?

TIA

 

yes flowering lovely,i nipped the ends off but they still kept growing

 

I have my first beans nearly ready for picking ,next Sundays lunch I hope :thumb:. As John says you have to mist them over with the hose to help the flowers to set , I have pinched out the tops ,mine are against a fence, and there are plenty of side shoots coming along, :gnthb:

 

i have a bumblebee nest under my shed so hopefully they are doing their job

 

I,m going to show off now, and say I had my first harvest of runners yesterday with my birthday meal. Not a lot. Just enough for a good taster.
robert

 

I've got Climbing French Beans in the greenhouse. They look amazingly healthy ... but that's it :( Nadda, Zippo ... a few (very few) flowers, and a few tiny tiny beans just starting. Rather disappointing.

(They were sown on 15 April and planted in the [cold] greenhouse on 04 May)

Picture was taken 29 June

 

I hope you have not been shouting at it.....It may be sulking!

 

Clearly telling it "next stop compost heap" has not worked either!

 

hi kristen ithink your beans could be too rich in nitrogen. This promotes leaf growth at the expence of flowers aand bean production hope this may help.

 

amazing how you can go off some people:hehe:

 

"hi kristen ithink your beans could be too rich in nitrogen. This promotes leaf growth at the expence of flowers aand bean production hope this may help."

That thought did cross my mind. My greenhouse "soil" is half-and-half well rotted manure [high in Nitrogen], and half home-made-compost, but aren't Beans (of all types) supposed to be planted in a trench of "manure"?

 

Sounds as if it could be alittle overich in nitrogen.I grow mine in woven sacks on awigwam with amix of 1/2 wellrotted manure 1/4 garden soil and 1/4 sand. this gives drainage they need althoughthey need frequent watering.I also give them 2 feeds of tomato feed before they flower 4 weeks apart. this gives me good heavy crops of both french and runners.