Hi Everyone.
I have a bed about 12ft long by 4ft wide. In the centre of this bed I have
my runner bean plants (8 of) which seem very happy and are growing nicely.
However due to lack of space in the rest of my garden and my amazement at
being fortunate enough to now have some cucumber seedings (about 3" high) I
would like to know if it would be ok to plant these cucumbers in front of my
runner beans. I have no idea of how much space they will take up. There are
6 plants in total and they are of a trailing variety.
Would it also be feasible to put a couple of Strawberry plants in this area
too?
The area gets full sun all day.
Regards
Kim
(Cardiff UK)

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I have a bed about 12ft long by 4ft wide. In the centre of this bed I have
my runner bean plants (8 of) which seem very happy and are growing nicely.
However due to lack of space in the rest of my garden and my amazement at
being fortunate enough to now have some cucumber seedings (about 3" high)
I
would like to know if it would be ok to plant these cucumbers in front of
my
runner beans. I have no idea of how much space they will take up. There
are
6 plants in total and they are of a trailing variety.
Would it also be feasible to put a couple of Strawberry plants in this
area
too?
The area gets full sun all day.

Ok to put the cucumbers in front of the beans but 6 plants is a bit OTT. We
find 3 too many and end up gracing our compost heap with more than we eat.
We also grow ours up canes, tying them in as required, so they don't take up
any more space than the runner beans.
Put the strawberries so they get full sun and plenty of air movement. We
grow our's on long humps (a bit like speed humps) covered with landscape
fabric to stop weeds, cut little holes and plant the strawberries through
the fabric. Being on humps they get a good air movement and the fruit hand
down onto the "clean" fabric with no chance of mud on the fruit.

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Bob

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Runnymede fighting for it's existence.

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I have a bed about 12ft long by 4ft wide. In the centre of this bed I have
my runner bean plants (8 of) which seem very happy and are growing nicely.
However due to lack of space in the rest of my garden and my amazement at
being fortunate enough to now have some cucumber seedings (about 3" high) I
would like to know if it would be ok to plant these cucumbers in front of my
runner beans. I have no idea of how much space they will take up. There are
6 plants in total and they are of a trailing variety.
Would it also be feasible to put a couple of Strawberry plants in this area
too?

You may be a bit late for the strawberries, but worth a try. I grow
cucumbers and marrows up the same supports as my runner beans.

BTW - dig your runner bean roots before the frost gets them, store them
over winter in dry sand (I used peat this year and it worked just as
well) and they give you a head start over planting the beans, and throw
up a bundle of vines.

Being a very tender perennial which naturally dies back annually, runner
beans can be replanted year on year.

The area gets full sun all day.

They'll like that then. Runners have few if any diseases here, so you
can prepare a trench and fill it with all manner of good things. Bones,
old (leather) shoes, old woollens all release nutrients into the soil
slowly and over a long period. Hoof and Horn on the cheap!

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Ok to put the cucumbers in front of the beans but 6 plants is a bit OTT. We
find 3 too many and end up gracing our compost heap with more than we eat.
We also grow ours up canes, tying them in as required, so they don't take up
any more space than the runner beans.

Pickle the excess of cucumbers. If you don't like them, I'll send a van
round......

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Tony wrote in message :

Ok to put the cucumbers in front of the beans but 6 plants is a bit OTT.
We
find 3 too many and end up gracing our compost heap with more than we
eat.
We also grow ours up canes, tying them in as required, so they don't
take up
any more space than the runner beans.

Pickle the excess of cucumbers. If you don't like them, I'll send a van
round......


You would need a rather large jar to pickle them, we grow Burpless Tasty
Green not the little ridge cucumbers (Gerkins). :-)

--
Bob

www.pooleygreengrowers.org.uk/ about an Allotment site in
Runnymede fighting for it's existence.


--
Bob

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Runnymede fighting for it's existence.

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from "Sue & Bob Hobden" contains these words:

Pickle the excess of cucumbers. If you don't like them, I'll send a van
round......


You would need a rather large jar to pickle them, we grow Burpless Tasty
Green not the little ridge cucumbers (Gerkins). :-)

I'll supply you with the vinegar and 10 gallon tubs with snap-on lids....

One of my friends has a polytunnel and he pickles his excess. He and his
wife like them though. Dammit.

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Thanks for the tips. Sounds like it work out ok in this patch. However, I'm
really sorry to disappoint you Tony, but there are 9 of us in this house (7
kids) and every one of us loves cucumbers :-)
Thanks again
Best wishes all.
Kim


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from "Sue & Bob Hobden" contains these words:

Pickle the excess of cucumbers. If you don't like them, I'll send a
van
round......


You would need a rather large jar to pickle them, we grow Burpless Tasty
Green not the little ridge cucumbers (Gerkins). :-)

I'll supply you with the vinegar and 10 gallon tubs with snap-on lids....

One of my friends has a polytunnel and he pickles his excess. He and his
wife like them though. Dammit.

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Thanks for the tips. Sounds like it work out ok in this patch. However, I'm
really sorry to disappoint you Tony, but there are 9 of us in this house (7
kids) and every one of us loves cucumbers :-)

Foiled again!

Thanks again
Best wishes all.

And to you and your garden.

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Ok to put the cucumbers in front of the beans but 6 plants is a bit OTT. We
find 3 too many and end up gracing our compost heap with more than we eat.
We also grow ours up canes, tying them in as required, so they don't take up
any more space than the runner beans.

Pickle the excess of cucumbers. If you don't like them, I'll send a van
round......

--
Tony
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Tony wrote in message :

Ok to put the cucumbers in front of the beans but 6 plants is a bit OTT.
We
find 3 too many and end up gracing our compost heap with more than we
eat.
We also grow ours up canes, tying them in as required, so they don't
take up
any more space than the runner beans.

Pickle the excess of cucumbers. If you don't like them, I'll send a van
round......


You would need a rather large jar to pickle them, we grow Burpless Tasty
Green not the little ridge cucumbers (Gerkins). :-)

--
Bob

www.pooleygreengrowers.org.uk/ about an Allotment site in
Runnymede fighting for it's existence.


--
Bob

www.pooleygreengrowers.org.uk/ about an Allotment site in
Runnymede fighting for it's existence.

The message
from "Sue & Bob Hobden" contains these words:

Pickle the excess of cucumbers. If you don't like them, I'll send a van
round......


You would need a rather large jar to pickle them, we grow Burpless Tasty
Green not the little ridge cucumbers (Gerkins). :-)

I'll supply you with the vinegar and 10 gallon tubs with snap-on lids....

One of my friends has a polytunnel and he pickles his excess. He and his
wife like them though. Dammit.

--
Tony
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Thanks for the tips. Sounds like it work out ok in this patch. However, I'm
really sorry to disappoint you Tony, but there are 9 of us in this house (7
kids) and every one of us loves cucumbers :-)
Thanks again
Best wishes all.
Kim


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The message
from "Sue & Bob Hobden" contains these words:

Pickle the excess of cucumbers. If you don't like them, I'll send a
van
round......


You would need a rather large jar to pickle them, we grow Burpless Tasty
Green not the little ridge cucumbers (Gerkins). :-)

I'll supply you with the vinegar and 10 gallon tubs with snap-on lids....

One of my friends has a polytunnel and he pickles his excess. He and his
wife like them though. Dammit.

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from "Kim Bewick" contains these words:

Thanks for the tips. Sounds like it work out ok in this patch. However, I'm
really sorry to disappoint you Tony, but there are 9 of us in this house (7
kids) and every one of us loves cucumbers :-)

Foiled again!

Thanks again
Best wishes all.

And to you and your garden.

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