Topic: Broad Beans - is it too late?

[vaca]

Hello,

Apologies if this has been asked before, but the search doesn't appear to be working.

A couple of days ago I noticed my broad beans which I planted out a few weeks ago had black fly eggs on the tips and ants working away on them  >:(  In a panic I pinched off the tips and later read somewhere that pinching should be done when the plants are about 3 foot high and after flowers have set. My plants are only about 1 foot high and have no flowers.

Are my broad beans doomed? and am I in time to sow some more?

Many thanks,
Vaca

[supersprout]

Hi vaca, at least you got the blackfly ::)

Are my broad beans doomed?
When I zealously did this one year, the beans threw out more shoots. Fewer beans per stem but more stems :)

am I in time to sow some more?
yes, I sow broadies up to the end of May to get the tiny pods in succession during the summer. They don't like too high a germination temp though, so this is probably the last month unless we have a cold start to June. If you were to sow now you would probably miss the blackfly by the time they flower :)

Good luck vaca, hope you get to eat blackfly-free growing tips next time, yum

[tim]

Don't know about doom, but I've just sown a second lot indoors.

And succession is the name of the game?

[Sprout]

I've got one broad bean. Don't like them myself but it must have somehow seeded itself on my plot from next door (he had a row of them on the border last year). It is now about 6-8" high and flowering. Will it produce any beans does anyone think?

[Curryandchips]

I would keep sowing, but I have run out of seed now ...