[langdon]

is anyone elses runners taken a while to get going or is just ours?
have been out with the hose again tonight and trying to persude those lose runners to climb up the poles.
i wonder is the heat got to do with it e.g. dry ground.

langdon

[Beewyched]

Ours were definately slow to get going this year, probably because of the weather, they were 4 different types that we grew last year with fairly good results.  They were just starting to get going & the deer came through & demolished every single one of the 24 of them, plus 20 pea plants that were just about to flower 

[ellied]

I have runner bean problems already posted about - my peas are in a different bed and are well grown but no sign of flowers yet.. I have Kelvedon and also a Mangetout variety and some of the latter didn't come up so put more of the K's in the spaces before realising I now won't know which is what so am just waiting to see what flowers, if anything

[Frieslandfilly]

Mine are slow also and we are in the south, cold winds and low nightime temps didnt help, now we have some heat hopefully they will zoom away!

[Fleecewife]

I have runner bean problems already posted about - my peas are in a different bed and are well grown but no sign of flowers yet.. I have Kelvedon and also a Mangetout variety and some of the latter didn't come up so put more of the K's in the spaces before realising I now won't know which is what so am just waiting to see what flowers, if anything

Once they start cropping you will be able to tell from the pod shape, even before the Kelvedon fill out and the MTs don't.  You might make a few mistakes, but MTs can be podded as well if they grow too fat.

[Womble]

We ended up with a big patch of them in the polytunnel, more or less by accident (meant to start them in there and move them outside, but they're too big to move now!).

Anyhow, I suppose I've got the opposite problem - can anybody tell me if I should I pinch the tops off now they're hitting the ceiling, or just keep weaving them back in? 

[Fleecewife]

Once my beans hit the crop bars at 8' I put up strings to take them horizontally and they usually manage another 2 or 3 feet, with the beans hanging down to pick.

[NorthEssexsmallholding]

just got canes up with twine across, they are only just ready to plant out

[little blue]

I've just set the third lot - the first 2 either rotted or just didnt gro at all.
so new seeds set ... fingers crossed.

(and the broad beans are just flowering, so its been a long hungry gap!)