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Leggy beans - JJB - 31-05-2020
True to usual form I sowed my CFBs too early and by the time I got to plant them they were probably a metre long and pot bound. Now tell me, do you untwine the tangle of beans and plant up, encouraging the long tentacle up a pole, or do you trim the tentacle letting the plant shoot from the bottom.
Also, if pot bound, do you tease out the roots before planting or not?
RE: Leggy beans - SarrissUK - 31-05-2020
Wow, if they ever get that tall for me, I lay them out with the pot where I want to plant them and just bung them in, then string something over them and kinda hang them over it. I don't cut them
RE: Leggy beans - JJB - 31-05-2020
I did indeed untangle this years cfb and trained them up a pole, clipped the up canes carefully using the gardeners green clippy peg like doodahs
One year after I had planted all the required cfb I had some Lidl ones over. They were so tangled there was no hope of separating them. I can't bear to bin plants unless absolutely necessary, so found some sticks and trimmed the beans down and told them they had two chances, grow or die. I had the most wonderful crop of late beans. I suppose it is just another form of successional 'sowing'. Note to self 'do not get too enthusiastic about sowing beans'. I never listen though.