Today's Crop

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  1. shiney

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    Things are looking up. Picked these this afternoon.

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    I've shown you mine, now you show me yours!! :D :D :D
     
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    green beans youve got loads shiney, ive just got 8 not worth looking at mine, well done [​IMG] :eek:
     
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    Hi rosa

    Let us know if you are coming this way and you can have some. [​IMG] I've got a lot of plants. Some give me loads of beans and others are not doing very well. Maybe yours are related to my ones that aren't doing well. The small yellow tomatoes are sweeter than red ones and are lower in acid. They are better for people who suffer with arthritis - although they shouldn't eat any tomatoes at all.

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    Well done Shiney lovely harvest,though we have been to our allotment tonight and have picked a carrier bag full of French Beans,so I shall be busy preparing them for the freezer,and eating fresh

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    Hi Shiney, I would love to live near you plenty of beans and tomatoes, anything else i could try.
    You will laugh i grew my beans in a hanging basket on my balcony just for a laugh, one of the beans is a fair size the rest are wee little at the moment, what on earth am i going to do with 8 beans :rolleyes:
     
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    That looks a lovely crop. My beans were devoured by slugs this year, I've ended up with 2 plants which are just flowering now!
     
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    Rosa
    If you were near me you could come and help me with the garden. I'd let you have your own veggie plot as well. [​IMG] You can get a variety of runner bean that is a dwarf one. They plant only grows about 18 inches but produces runner beans not dwarf beans.

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    We lost some our our plants to slugs but then Mrs shiney went on slug patrol. Early in the growing season she went out early in the mornings and in the evenings and bagged up all the slugs she could find and sent them on a holiday in the fields.
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    I have grown french beans in pots for a few years now and they have cropped fairly well. I wish I had an allotment!!
     
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    hi shiney,ohhhhh goody goody my very own plot, my supposed to be dwarf ones have grown massive, they must of put the wrong beans in the packet, the one with 8 beans grown in the hanging basket is not a bad size definately bigger than 18 inches and the other in a pot well thats definately not a dwarf variety it is like a triffid and no beans :D :D
     
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