Parsnip And Bean Advice Please!

[smeagal]

Hi all,
My name is smeagal and I live on the southcoast.
I have a south facing garden with only 2 very narrow raised border beds and the rest has to be grown in containers.
I had a good harvest (except me Toms) in my first year .
I am just wondering if you can give any advice ongrowing dwarf beans and parsnips in dustbins.
Any advice would be well recieved.
Smeag

[DavidT]

Good evening Smeagal and welcome to the site.

[smeagal]

Thank You .
Just getting used to the forum

[malcolmx]

grow parsnips in drain pipes with seived soil grow dwarf beans in flowerpots with good compost feed and water regularly you may need to polinate beans by hand

[tezmac]

How do you pollinate by hand ?.

[PottyPot]

Originally Posted by tezmac

How do you pollinate by hand ?.

Plant them in hanging baskets where the bees can get at them and you won't need to hand pollinate

[smithyveg]

Exhibition growers grow parsnips in old oil drums filled with sand. Holes are 'cored' out using a length of plastic piping and then finished off with a crow bar giving long conical holes. These holes are then filled with the grower's mix of compost, soil, sand and various nutrients and the seed sown into the top. We only grow 4 or 5 in each drum as we're trying to get the longest and biggest.

If growing just for the table fill your dustbin with a mixture of sieved compost and sand and sow your seed across the top, thinning when germinated.


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[smeagal]

Originally Posted by smithyveg

Exhibition growers grow parsnips in old oil drums filled with sand. Holes are 'cored' out using a length of plastic piping and then finished off with a crow bar giving long conical holes. These holes are then filled with the grower's mix of compost, soil, sand and various nutrients and the seed sown into the top. We only grow 4 or 5 in each drum as we're trying to get the longest and biggest.

If growing just for the table fill your dustbin with a mixture of sieved compost and sand and sow your seed across the top, thinning when germinated.


Smithyveg!

Many ,many thanks. I will give it a go this spring. As my bins are plastic will holes drilled down the sides and around the bottom do for drainage?

[Lesley Jay]

Hi Smeagal and Tezmac, if you are both growing french beans these are self pollinating so there is no need to worry about pollinating by hand.

[smithyveg]

Smeagal.....yes plenty of holes in fact the more the better. Parsnips like good drainage.

[DavidT]

Smithy, those Parsnips look pretty good, a bit bent, but edible otherwise.