Board beans getting big! Help!

sorry, spelling error!

hi its me again. dont waste them plant them out ( ive just put mine out today ) they are pretty hardy you can buy seeds to put in at the end of the year and they come thru in early spring but as yr down south you should be better off than me ,im in hull east yorkshire, i wish i was back down yr end i loved it down there ,regards bob

Again, you're a real gem!

I took a chance. If you can see Flickr I just posted my whole little project there.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/34459063@N00/3414371605/in/set-721576163876...
My wigwam is (as you'll see !) a bit amatuerish but they should do fine against the wall and fencing on top. We'll just have to see.

thanks!

you lucky devil i am still waiting for mine to come through lol. Dave

hi dave ,when they do show up ask them if they have seen my sweetcorn two full packets in three weeks and still no sign ( its lot easier in tins ) take care bob

well, Bob they're still there today, not yet compost fodder!

The only seed that didn't germinate are cayenne peppers from a 2 year old pack (!) so maybe too old.

hi ,i think you,ve hit the nail on the head there. nevr had no trouble like this for a few years so went and got new stock this morning also 6 bags of flea,s ( daphnia .) pond now filled with hundreds of tiny tadpoles so they will help keep the algae down and also feed the wildlife caught your photo,s on the net looks like you have your hands full but its been well worth it by the look of it .take care ,bob

Glad you asked this question I have been sitting hear wondering what to do with mine had same problem growing to quick. Mind now made up after reading your replies going to plant mine out tomorrow weather permitting. I have the same problem with many of my other vegetables being my first year decided would plant at earliest date to allow for disasters but only disasters seem to be all seeds seem to have germenated and sitting outside under cloches waiting to be planted out.
Good luck
Joannie

hi joannie, i dont think your on your own. we are all looking at our trays on our plots and thinking we jumped the gun a bit, its been a bad start to the year and a bit of rough weather on the horizon still ,my only consolation is i can sit in my greenhouse and watch the fox pinching the cats bisuits lol regards bob

Hi Bob
Well all broad beans have survived so far - wish I could say the same for brussel sprouts which two cheeky slugs have devoured. found them this afternoon in one of my cloches.
Dont suppose I can complain to much as keep getting told to put pellets down but got two young children one who would quite happily eat pellets. Would rather loose some plants than have sick child.
Haven't seen any foxes here just lots of squirrel and the dreaded pigeons.
Joannie

hi joannie, im in the same boat as you ,lost half my broad beans to a couple of pidgeons who have taken up residence on out plots my sprouts dont seem to want to grow and my free gift was from the fox in the shape of a bread cake and an egg so hes been raiding someones chicken pen,i agree with you on the pellets you can,t be too carefull where children are ,a good fix is to save all your eggshells and crush them up with a rolling pin or something i use a small blender cutter to do mine then scatter around the base of the plant the slime on the slugs stick to them and save your plants you still lose an odd one or two but you are in front at the end ,you can also use sharp sand. we had a good frost here this morning so i lost all my busy lizzy,s which i put out laast week ,good job i saved a few for later . happy gardening ,bob

hi bob
Thanks for tip about egg shells have put lots around all my beans and cabbages which i have now put out so fingers crossed. All my seedlings seemed to have stopped growing in the last week or so since temp dropped , I have ended up puting my cloches back up this afternoon as so cold outside, not sure if was the correct thing to do. The only thing that seem to be growing are the sun flowers which are now a good seven inches tall and marrows/courgettes/cucumbers ( my son has very been helpful and removed my tags so now dont know which are which in the later three. ) If you have any ideas on how to tell them apart before planting out would be very grateful - seems to be giving my other half and boys grandad lots of laughs as got lots of plants just dont know what they are! lol joannie

hi j, i think we are the same every where at the moment a bit of sun here today but very chilly ive been putting out lettuce savoys cabbages cauli,s dwarf beans all under cloches.peas have not germinated at all this year and its all new stocks so dont know why ,there,s always the tins to fall back on though lol my sunflowers are just comming thru and theres plenty of them put my first toms in the greenhse yesterday along with a couple on galia melons so my sunday tea is well organised, one tip i can pass on is to sow loads of marigolds in between yr cabbages as the confuse the cabbage white butterflys and also look very nice on a sunny day. as regards the marrows and such they all look very much the same to me so i wait till they grow a bit and then still get it wrong all we can do is just plod on regardless, happy days ,best wishes bob

never compost any plants before giving them a chance plant them out they die they will end up on the compost heap anyway