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Woodburner
Joined: 28 Apr 2006 Posts: 2904 Location: Essex
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Posted: Sat Jun 12, 10 10:10 am Post subject: |
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vanessa wrote: |
My Bridgewater beans from Bugs are growing well ... but none of the other early sowings have done anything I reckon it was too cold for too long for French beans.
I'm going to soak my Dig-in beans this weekend; deliberately left late, to give a succession of beans. |
I soaked five different types of bean before sowing. The borlotti and Scarlet Emperor did very well, the rest, well, most just disappeared. A very few germinated, of which only one or two look viable, a couple I managed to find rotted remains of and a few I found little maggots where the beans should be.
I have since found a seed saving tip (from realseeds) to freeze them for, IIRC, 24 hours before storing, to kill weevil eggs, so I'm thinking of freezing them the day before sowing next time, rather than soaking, which seems not so good after reading Otleylad's tip!
Nearly forgot, don't know if it's just coincidence, but the ones that failed were all white seeded. French beans and runners. |
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