growing runner beans in trnc

timefore


Joined: 01/08/2008
Posts: 495

Message Posted:
12/09/2010 15:09

anybody had any success in growing runner beans in tne trnc? tried this year plenty of growth - plenty of red flowers but they would not set! any advice/tips would gratefully received

Pugwash


Joined: 06/09/2010
Posts: 1797

Message Posted:
12/09/2010 15:44

Very difficult here many have tried and most failed including me

timefore


Joined: 01/08/2008
Posts: 495

Message Posted:
12/09/2010 15:48

we tried the 1st year we were out here with some success but no beans since (been here 5 years)

Deniz1


Joined: 28/07/2009
Posts: 3829

Message Posted:
12/09/2010 15:51

Unless you have a lot of time and patience to dab all the flowers with a paint brush which pollinates them i think you will be unlucky. There are not many bees here which would normally do the job.

YFred


Joined: 06/05/2009
Posts: 1471

Message Posted:
12/09/2010 15:51

Only if you can get them to stand still long enough to grow roots. You may solve the problem of runner beans in Cyprus. Oh and some water helps too.



We are able to grow Bogrulce/black eyed peas without watering it. What is needed is a decent bit of soil and you will find it in a unmentionable place nearer the border with our GC cousins.

LondonCypriot


Joined: 15/12/2008
Posts: 426

Message Posted:
12/09/2010 16:39

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/gardening/howtogrow/7687287/How-to-grow-runner-beans.html



...........if the weather's hot, red-flowered types tend not to set. Heat-tolerant white-flowered varieties still produce a crop.

timefore


Joined: 01/08/2008
Posts: 495

Message Posted:
12/09/2010 16:57

Thanks for that LC - wife is going back to UK in a couple of weeks time, will get her to get some white flowering beans

frankedad


Joined: 21/11/2008
Posts: 346

Message Posted:
15/09/2010 21:17

roumer has it that weeing on them helps ..

timefore


Joined: 01/08/2008
Posts: 495

Message Posted:
15/09/2010 21:23

thanks for that fd

Jetski


Joined: 21/07/2008
Posts: 584

Message Posted:
15/09/2010 22:33

and trying to encourage what few pollinators we have here.... grow some lavender nearby and try to shelter the plants from the mossie sprays that come round every night. They may stop us getting bitten but they kill every insect in their path.