Time to plant runner beans?

My runners are in pots in the greenhouse and are starting to send up their climbing tips.
Getting towards a foot high (300mm)
With rain and cloud forecast there doesn't seem to be frost likely so was thinking of transplanting out this week. I'm on the Essex/Suffolk border and not too far from Cambridgeshire.
Good or bad idea ?

Paul G

 

Hi,

We haven't even sown ours seeds yet !

Though it may be much milder, with the lack of sunshine, the strong winds and the heavy rain, even hail, if you planted them out into that doubt they would be that happy ?

Can you keep them in for for another week, or even start some new seeds off to plant out more into June ?
Its generally better to have a plant growing away fast and strong, rather than being checked by poor conditions.

 

Usually find putting a bit of that Slug Copper Tape around the canes and stems stops them, but make sure a drooping leaf going down onto the soil does not create a bridge for them.

 

I'd put them outside in the pots for now in a bit of shelter if you can find some, leave them like that for another week before planting.
This coming week is looking rubbish weather wise and hardening them off is probably better than just shoving them straight in the ground during this kind of weather.
Looks to be getting colder by next weekend, if you can call this mild that is.

 

I have more trouble with cats. My own, two more one side and one the other.
Neither side are gardeners so if I dig any soil they form a line and take their turn.

 

A few of my Runners are a bit leggy, so I've pinched out the growing points.
Will sow a few more as back up.

 

I planted mine about two weeks ago. Sadly they didn't take to kindly to the direct sunlight and a few leaves got burned. The slugs also took their share on the all-you-can-eat buffet and started attacking them vigorously.
Still they pulled through and started to grow.

 

I've put them outside in a sheltered spot, between two rows of hazel sticks, and no sooner
than I took a photo than it bucketed down. No water for them tonight when I bring them in.

Paul G

 

Help please. Sown in the same compost, same water, same light, same Seed & same heat. why?

 

Are the leaves healthy? Do they feel the same as the other ones or do they start to dry?

If both look and feel good you might have a foreign seed mixed into the bag. There are a LOT of different bean variants, so they might look the same but differ in the DNA (mayby a stray bee with other pollen flew into that specific plant)

 

Hi Black Dog, They both feel and look the same and not dry.
The Runner seed was saved from last years crop.

 

Could just be a random mutation, be interesting to see how it develops as appears to have little or no chlorophyll.