Runner Beans and Courgettes
Posted: Wed Aug 30, 2017 9:24 am
I bought 2 lots of 12 Runner Beans from Marshalls - Whiteflowered Moondust and Red-flowered Firestorm. If we had relied on the latter we would have had just enough for the 2 of us. As it is I have been picking almost a basket full of beans from Moondust and feeding all the neighbours for the past couple of weeks, and still they come.
A neighbour a couple of doors away has been growing redflowered Butler, which has had such good reviews and has complained that a lot of the flowers have fallen off. Speaking to friends yesterday at the National Botanic Garden of Wales, it seems that redflowered Armstrong was also 'failing' whilst another whiteflowered variety was doing well.
Anyone else experiencing anything similar?
I also bought 3 courgettes - stripey Latino, yellow Lemona and green Tuscany. Now I am not suggesting the colours have anything to do with their cropping ability, but Latino outcrops the others perhaps as much as 4 to 1 in the case of Lemona and perhaps only 3 to 1 for Tuscany. Also larger and, according to reports last year when I also grew them, tastier.
A neighbour a couple of doors away has been growing redflowered Butler, which has had such good reviews and has complained that a lot of the flowers have fallen off. Speaking to friends yesterday at the National Botanic Garden of Wales, it seems that redflowered Armstrong was also 'failing' whilst another whiteflowered variety was doing well.
Anyone else experiencing anything similar?
I also bought 3 courgettes - stripey Latino, yellow Lemona and green Tuscany. Now I am not suggesting the colours have anything to do with their cropping ability, but Latino outcrops the others perhaps as much as 4 to 1 in the case of Lemona and perhaps only 3 to 1 for Tuscany. Also larger and, according to reports last year when I also grew them, tastier.