I've been looking for some organic dwarf beans I can grow in a pot. Just found some organic dwarf beans but it doesn't say whether they're suitable for growing in pot. Anyone know? They're called modus.

General blurb for french beans in Garden Organic Catalogue reads:-

Raise in pots under glass in April and transplant, or sow in the open from May to July when the soil and weather is warm. Sow 5cm deep, 5-8cm apart in 45cm rows.
Start picking when beans are relatively young. More tolerant of hot, dry conditions than runner beans.
Extend the season by growing in cloches, greenhouse or polytunnel. Average height 30-60cm. Also good in containers.

They have several varieties with organic seeds

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Thanks - I looked there first, couldn't find any which were both dwarf & organic - have they updated their site since I last looked or am I going mad?
On second thoughts, don't answer that

I should think they'd do well in pots and containers cos I reckon they get lost in the hurly burly of the plot. Well mine did I think at at least waist height so you can see em I like Sonesta I did dwarf borlotti too which I've dried for winter use

I have to do pots rather than allotment because

* I don't have an allotment (shh - don't tell anyone!)
* There's no space in my garden for veg because I planted lots of shrubs & flowers & stuff - didn't think I would be well enough or indeed interested enough to do much gardening when I started so went for low maintenance
* I can't do digging (can't even lift the blinkin' spade )
* We're moving house this year (I hope)

Have got lots of seeds & cuttings though so will have lots of things in pots in new garden until I get it sorted. I'll stick with one variety of beans for now - am trying carrots this year for first time too, & I can't do too much! But once we've moved & unpacked & got sorted I will be here asking all about easy care fruit & veg! (That'll be 2008 then )

In my old 1940s book, it suggests sowing French Beans in pots in the autumn to give fresh crops at Christmas (no freezers then!) and in the early spring to get crops before May.
Never mind the variety, they should all grow fine.

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I used to grow runner beans in my garden Juliet, in amongst the flowers. They make a lovely vertical feature in the garden. I grew marigolds at the base and a few sunflowers up the teepee. Looked lovely Courgettes do brilliantly in 9 to 12" pots as do chillies and peppers, oh and toms. Herbs like clay pots and will all grow happily. Spuds in big pots in growbag compost are a doddle too

Dwarf French beans will grow in pots And courgettes I had a mad mother who used to grow them on a balcony Very embarrassing when you're a teen-ager.... Now I'm the MAD mother

They look lovely though

Do you get enough a crop to make it worthwhile though? I'd have thought you'd have needed loads of plants to get enough although I've only grown climbing ones before...

Don't need many - they're only for me (though what's the betting R will decide he does like beans after all if there's the option of fresh ones from the garden? )

I'm allergic to chillies & peppers; think toms might be too difficult if I'm not well enough to water them for a week or something; hope to try pots in pots after we've moved & settled; don't know anything about growing courgettes - might come back to you on that one (don't tell me now ... I'll forget ... unless you don't mind telling me again ); herbs are the only edibles I do grow, but I want more in the new garden <greedyforbiggergardensmiley>

what about salads and spinach / bordeaux etc ?? I have also got mizuna in a tub too

Well I'm not worried to much about fast growing stuff cos I will get some land time before I move...its more the stuff that that won't crop until August or later and especially things like brussels, nine-star perrenial broccoli that I wandered about which is why the pot grown beans caught my attention....

Good thought tho Flo

I think you can grow more or less anything in pots if the pots are big enough - could be wrong though - I only know about flowers.

I'm only doing carrots & beans this year because I'm told they're low maintenance, & first on list for after we've moved are blueberries & strawberries. After that will see ... might have a go at some lettuce eventually, Flo. What's mizuna (should I know)?

Mizuna is a small lettuce leafwith a mild and sweet mustard flavour. Really realy good and possibly my favourite of them all!

Ah a variety, that's alright then - thought it might be a type of veg I'd never heard of

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Oh - one of those

I sowed some under the plastic cloche this Autumn when I planted the salads, been picking some this week, it's lovely to have salad leaves in the winter The ones I sowed without the cloche protection are doing just as well too

I've grown loads of veg in pots for the past 2 years as the only available space was a load of concrete at the top of the garden where the previous owners used to park their van

Juliet - the year before last (before the hosepipe ban) I set up a dripper irrigation system thingy which watered my tomatoes automatically - it worked really well Found the most successful veg so far are cut and come again salads, spring onions, toms, potatoes, chillies, peppers and cucumbers (ooh - and strawberries ).

We're also planning to move house this year so I'm not growing anything cos we need to keep the concrete clear and tidy to market it as a parking space

I've grown loads of veggies in pots, window boxes, baskets, tubs, watering cans, buckets, laundry baskets, builders rubble sacks and I've got an allotment I grow leaves and salads in baskets etc on top of a table to keep the sluggies off em. You can do the same with courgettes Juliet - make life harder for the slimey feckers

I persuaded a lady I garden for to grow cut & come again lettuce this year! In a pot outside.... she will be doing a tom plant this year, she just doesn't know it yet...

I like growing stuff in pots - it's fun. I like the fact that I can move them if I want to so they get more sun, or shelter, shade etc. that I can have them at waist height to make looking after them easier. The dwarf beans I reckon are a pain in the arse on the floor so mine won't be there this year

I have decking outside me shed where I keep containers with herbs, strawbs, flowers, tomatoes etc in. They look lovely and make me happy I am a simple soul though

has anyone mentioned growing cucumbers in pots. Easy peasy

Julie I cadge mayo tubs from our local sarni shop and they make great containers for all manner of veg