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It's a fruity day to day so whatever you've got to do...

Just remember to get those french a climbing beans sown along with peas! Bulba is busy making newspaper pots and filling...

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moon_grower

14 Apr, 2011
Moon_grower

Broad Bean comparison Moon & Control Beds

We've harvest all the broad beans now with a goodly number tucked away in the freezer to eat over the winter. Each time we...

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moon_grower

23 Aug, 2010
Moon_grower

Recipes for Runner Beans

I'm sure many of you veg growers out there have a glut of runner beans? I have found a fantasitc site called everything runnerbean...

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avid_gardener

20 Aug, 2010
Avid_gardener

It may seem funny to ask but which is better?

Does anyone know if you get a better crop of runner beans if you line the trench with Broads sheets or Redtops! Would I...

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drc726

26 Feb, 2010
Drc726

Broad Beans

I grow Aquadulce broad beans and have just finishing harvesting my crop. I notice that only the main stem has beans on it....

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jimeva

30 Jun, 2009
Jimeva

A good day for sorting out the veg and herb patch

I started by building a frame for my french runner beens I recone it should do the job I then went on to build myself a...

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donnah

28 Feb, 2009
Donnah

UPDATE TOMS

JUST AN UPDATE ON MY TOMS, THEY SEEM TO BE DOING OK.JUST HOPE THE REST OF MY VEG DO THE SAME .I HAVE PUT SOME RUNNER BEAN...

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happy

30 Mar, 2008
Happy

bean gone

I always think when you take up your bean plants, winter is just around the corner. Today all my bean plants went in the...

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maisymulcher

14 Oct, 2007
Maisymulcher

Harvest Time!!!

Today I picked the first produce from the veg patch-Dwarf French Beans that weren't quite so dwarf as I'd not looked at them...

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peter

15 Jul, 2007
Peter

Beans done a runner

After all the hard work so far sowing seed in pots and raising in our conservatory, I finally planted out the runner beans,...

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The_Norfolk_Shed

8 May, 2007
The_norfolk_shed