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planting runner beans
I have been told I could improve my runner bean crop by planting seeds in
cardboard tubes, such as toilet roll cores, to give a better root. Has anyone tried this and does it work ? |
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"hillier" wrote in message ... : I have been told I could improve my runner bean crop by planting seeds in : cardboard tubes, such as toilet roll cores, to give a better root. Has : anyone tried this and does it work ? : :No but the idea is that it gives plenty of root room as the roots grow first on runner beans. I sow about 6 in a 9" pot and carefully pull them apart when I plant them. It makes no difference what you plant them in as long as it has plenty of room |
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"hillier" wrote _ I have been told I could improve my runner bean crop by planting seeds in cardboard tubes, such as toilet roll cores, to give a better root. Has anyone tried this and does it work ? Yes, we have used the centres of toilet and kitchen rolls. Gives an earlier start and you just plant the whole thing so don't disturb the roots, also avoids those pesky slugs and the pea and bean weevil. Now use Roottrainers which are just a posh version of the same thing. :-) -- Regards Bob In Runnymede, 17 miles West of London |
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from "hillier" contains these words: I have been told I could improve my runner bean crop by planting seeds in cardboard tubes, such as toilet roll cores, to give a better root. Has anyone tried this and does it work ? Best is to plant them in the soil. At the end of the season (and before any frost) dig the roots up and store them over winter in dry sand in a cool place which will not freeze. When you plant them out, you get quicker growth, and several vines from each. The following year, you get a whole bundle of vines, and so-on. Until you forget them and the frost strikes... -- Rusty Open the creaking gate to make a horrid.squeak, then lower the foobar. http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/hi-fi/ |
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Bob Hobden wrote:
"hillier" wrote _ I have been told I could improve my runner bean crop by planting seeds in cardboard tubes, such as toilet roll cores, to give a better root. Has anyone tried this and does it work ? did that this year, am now collecting loo roll cores for next years runners, sweet peas and early peas. -- Please do not reply by Email, as all emails to this address are automatically deleted. |
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I have been told I could improve my runner bean crop by planting seeds in cardboard tubes, such as toilet roll cores, to give a better root. Has anyone tried this and does it work ? Yes, that's what we do. Also the cores from kitchen towel. (We never have enough, but you can get rolled black paper tubes from the big Sheds to make up the deficit). If you stack the tubes upright in seed trays, loosely tied around with string, they are easy to water and support each other. We start all our runner beans this way and also half of our sweet peas. (We put sweet pea plants in tubes in the ground at 10inch intervals with a seed beside each. This gives a dense and long lasting display .... it is still looking magnificent right now despite the poor summer.) |
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Sue da Nimm wrote:
I have been told I could improve my runner bean crop by planting seeds in cardboard tubes, such as toilet roll cores, to give a better root. Has anyone tried this and does it work ? Yes, that's what we do. Also the cores from kitchen towel. (We never have enough, but you can get rolled black paper tubes from the big Sheds to make up the deficit). If you stack the tubes upright in seed trays, loosely tied around with string, they are easy to water and support each other. We start all our runner beans this way and also half of our sweet peas.[...] A friend always used to start his beans and sweet peas in tubes he made out of rolled-up newspaper. IIRC, he secured the tubes by simply tucking the ends in, but a stapler would do it. Mike. |
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I've always started runner beans early, about 4 to a pot, but my
relations all plant them straight into the ground. For sweet peas my father-in- law used to cut strips from plastic fertilizer bags and roll and staple them into tubes. Probably about the same size as a loo roll centre. One tug split them and brought the roots out without damage for planting. Best sweet pea seedlings I've ever seen. I had a particular sunny spot to grow them, visible from the kitchen sink, that I always used. To keep the soil sweet I used to completely wheel barrow out the soil every spring and replace it with fresh, over the top of a layer of compost. Prior to retiring he also used the plastic coffee cups from the works vending machine. He had made a tool from a cone with a sharpened piece of hacksaw blade on the end which, when rotated, was just the right size for cutting the bottoms out. Bill Derby |
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In message , Jaques
d'Alltrades writes The message from "hillier" contains these words: I have been told I could improve my runner bean crop by planting seeds in cardboard tubes, such as toilet roll cores, to give a better root. Has anyone tried this and does it work ? Best is to plant them in the soil. Much prefer to sow in modules and then plant out myself. For things like bean we use Rootrainers - we just CBA with toilet roll insides :-) At the end of the season (and before any frost) dig the roots up and store them over winter in dry sand in a cool place which will not freeze. There was a 'members experiment' in the HDRA mag, ISTR that the general feeling was that while it did work, and theplanst were a little eralier, it was a bit unreliable, and not really worth the effort. -- Chris French and Helen Johnson, Leeds urg Suppliers and References FAQ: http://www.familyfrench.co.uk/garden/urgfaq/index.html |
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The message
from Bill contains these words: Prior to retiring he also used the plastic coffee cups from the works vending machine. He had made a tool from a cone with a sharpened piece of hacksaw blade on the end which, when rotated, was just the right size for cutting the bottoms out. I just stacked them a couple of feet high and pushed a piece of red-hot steel rod through. Don't try this in the kitchen folks! (Or the front room...) -- Rusty Open the creaking gate to make a horrid.squeak, then lower the foobar. http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/hi-fi/ |
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The message
from Chris French and Helen Johnson contains these words: At the end of the season (and before any frost) dig the roots up and store them over winter in dry sand in a cool place which will not freeze. There was a 'members experiment' in the HDRA mag, ISTR that the general feeling was that while it did work, and theplanst were a little eralier, it was a bit unreliable, and not really worth the effort. I've always found it very well worth the effort, both with the earlier and the much bigger crop. (Killed by an early frost last year, but *THIS* year I'll be a bit more careful.) -- Rusty Open the creaking gate to make a horrid.squeak, then lower the foobar. http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/hi-fi/ |
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