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Planting out... when?

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wakemeupbefore · 04/05/2018 08:47

Was much too enthusiastic/gullible and germinated a load of french and runners during the glorious week we had (or the summer, as DH calls it) and now have tall, vigorous seedlings with roots wiggling out of the 9cm pots. What do do?! Too cold to plant out, replanting into larger pots needs to have supports introduced but when actually planting them out, what to do with the little pot-sized support canes the beans surely have clambered up on [ and breathe and use punctuation...} ??
Help please!

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squashyhat · 04/05/2018 10:27

Hmm. It is a bit soon. I'm not sowing mine (into pots in the greenhouse) until next week at the earliest. If you have a frame already up in the garden you could plant them out, get some horticultural fleece and cover them over if it looks like frost. They don't like their roots being disturbed so I wouldn't pot them on twice.

dreamingofsun · 04/05/2018 10:30

where do you live as that makes a big difference. i've planted mine out, after hardening them off for a couple of weeks (with fleece at night for the last week). 10 day forecast looks good here - i think it was colder indoors in april when it snowed and our heating broke down. somewhere i read said toms dont like under 7 so thats what i've used as my benchmark for beans.

wakemeupbefore · 04/05/2018 13:47

Thanks for the replies! The forcast here is so-so, no actual frost apparently, but.... who knows. Will dig a nice rich patch of vegetable bed over and add a bag of manure and bone meal, then build my vigvam, plant the things, cover with fleece and send up offerings to garden fairies or somesuch.
Then start germinating next batch.

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