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Runner Bean Moonlight (RHS Award of Garden Merit)

Description

RHS Award

GARDENER'S CHOICE.


Runner Bean seeds "Moonlight" is a white flowering, self-pollinating variety with excellent flavoured pods, which are smooth and fleshy. It is a high yielding variety with beans reaching approximately 23cm long (9"). Moonlight has all the attributes of a climbing French bean, plus the flavour of a runner bean. Self pollinating!

Product Part Number: 30437

Pack Size: 45 Seeds

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Price : £3.25

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When to sow
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When to Sow Moonlight Runner Bean Seeds

April to June

Where to Sow

Early sowings can be made underglass at a temperature of 16°C, sow 3 seeds per 8cm (3in) pot filled with seed sowing compost. Outside sowings can be made from May onwards into the growing site 5cm (2in) deep. Sow 2-3 seeds every 20-30cm(8-12in) apart with rows spaced 60cm (24in) apart.

What to do next

Seedlings sown underglass should be gradually hardened off before planting outside in late May to the above spacing, once all risk of frost has past. Place a support cane at each planting station. Alternatively circular plantings can be made with canes joined at the centre to form a wigwam. For optimum crop, place canes 30-45cm (12-18") apart with 3 beans planted per cane. Water regularly during dry weather.

Maturity

July to September

Handy Tip

Use cooked pods, chopped into small pieces, to add great flavour and interest to salads. Always keep plants well watered when rainfall is low.

Handy Tip for Flower Drop

Percy Thrower thought that the main cause of flower drop was slightly acid soil. He recommended applying a dusting of lime to the soil in early winter over the area set aside for runner beans the next year, so that it would get washed into the topsoil by the winters rain. We have tried it and it does work.

Nutritional Values

A good source of Vitamin C, Folic Acid, Iron and Fibre.
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