runner beans

Hi! has anyone put their runner beans in yet. i started mine off in pots in the greenhouse and they r about 5 inches now...Ive got my canes up ready just not sure whether its to early to put in ground.

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Hi girliecook. A bit early yet for planting out your 'runners', in fact, I still haven't sown them yet. A frost can still hit any time from now until the end of May, which is when I would advise you plant them out, unless you have some means of giving them protection if needed. As for the second part of your question, you'll only get an e-mail if you receive a PM, so you'll have to search your thread. Cheers...freddy.

 

The trouble with putting Runners out early is that you have to put up all the cames / whatever to support them, and then it is very difficult to put fleece over them to protect them from frost.

But if you don't plant them out them they become a tangled mess, and get a severe check when planted out later anyway ...

I would plant out and sow some more "just in case"

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Ahh, didn't know that Kristen (regarding notification) :thumb:

 

When I plant out climbing beans I use plastic lemonade bottles with the bottoms cut off as mini cloches for the first week or 10 days.

 

Yes. my runners are out and some are about three feet high and looking strong.
I know theres still risk of a frost but I am prepared.
My single row is along the well sheltered south facing wall of my garage. One cane per plant x 20 odd plants. Each cane is so planted as to tension against the wall, so if a frost is forecast its a simple matter of laying the fleece alng the top of the canes and pinching it with each pole against the wall.
I really hope theres not a frost.............and I get away with it.