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Runner beans not running

12 years ago

I planted some starts of runner beans from the nursery in early March and planted some seeds in late March The plants from seeds are larger than the nursery plants and beginning to form runners now, but the nursery plants are about 4 inches tall and doing nothing. I fertilized with fish emulsion last week to see if that would help. They're in full sun until about 2 and partial shade after that. Getting plenty of water. I'm stumped. I expected them to be much farther along than this. Any ideas?

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User
12 years ago
Mine are slowly plodding, too.
sundrop07
12 years ago
It's been my experience that transplanted beans and peas don't do as well as from seeds so I direct seed them now. I know it's helpful with a lot of veggies to get a jump start with transplants but for me at least that doesn't apply to legumes. Hopefully yours will catch up.
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HaroldinGlendale
12 years ago
I find seed started zucchini do much better than nursery started plants.
newtoucan
12 years ago
I've tried for 3 yes with scarlet runner beans with no success. No problem starting them but they rarely get big. So far I've gotten about 8 leaves on mine this year. I put aluminum foil over the bottom stem.

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