https://stream.echo6.co/videos/watch/7f6ec845-3a7e-4798-b68e-e46fdae2f732 Dwarf French beans are easy to grow as long as you wait for the warmth of early summer. It can be tempting to sow them in mid- to late spring, but results often are relatively disappointing. In my and many other climates, June is the best month for sowing, even the first month of July. In the southern hemisphere that would be December going into January. For this video and to fit our filming schedule, I sowed earlier. You can see the extra trouble. I went to in order to provide warmth, using a fleece cover, and even extra fleece when there was a frost on 6th May. Which is not unusual here. Long-handled dibber of my own design: https://charlesdowding.co.uk/products/long-handled-ash-dibber?variant=49015163191619 Fleece covers, different options: https://charlesdowding.co.uk/collections/gardening-equipment#4a3087ecfc9417cff750fa9d209f4db0 Steel hoops: https://charlesdowding.co.uk/products/original-sharanya-spring-steel-garden-hoops-various-lengths?variant=54270993334595 🎥 Filmed April to August 2025 by Carly Dutton-Edwards In Homeacres No Dig Garden, Somerset, UK 🎵 Music: Rory Dunwoodie, @rorydinwoodiemusic IG: rorydinwoodiemusic You can join this channel by paying a monthly fee, to support our work with helping gardeners grow better, and to receive monthly videos made only for members: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCB1J6siDdmhwah7q0O2WJBg/join 00:00 Introduction - plants need for warmth, don’t sow too early 01:04 Sowing seeds into module trays 02:04 Tray with seeds planted four days previously 03:02 2nd May – timing for sowing, and two options 04:22 Sowing in trays, comparison with bought and saved seed 05:18 Using dibber to draw lines for spacing and dibbing holes 08:42 Transplanting from module trays, recommended size of cell 10:34 Sowing direct, need for warmth - timing options 12:14 Watering and covering with fleece 13:33 Fleece, different types 14:32 23rd May – plants thriving 15:44 Watering 16:49 4th July, after two weeks of harvesting – stages for picking 19:14 Keeping plants tidy 19:56 Younger plants sown later, timing options for sowing Wed, 22 Apr 2026 04:47:41 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://stream.echo6.co https://stream.echo6.co/client/assets/images/icons/icon-512x512.png https://stream.echo6.co/videos/watch/7f6ec845-3a7e-4798-b68e-e46fdae2f732 All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://stream.echo6.co/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.