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Produce => Edible Plants => Topic started by: Anne Field on April 13, 2009, 13:53:20

Title: broad beans
Post by: Anne Field on April 13, 2009, 13:53:20

hi!
can anybody please tell me whether anything will eat my broad beans (beside me!). Do I need to net them? Wood pigeons are a problem here - but do they eat broad beans? Your help would be appreciated - many thanks.

Title: Re: broad beans
Post by: sunner on April 13, 2009, 14:00:23

Wood pigeons never seem to eat mine never net mine off, they sure eat a lot of other stuff

Title: Re: broad beans
Post by: Anne Field on April 13, 2009, 14:31:43

Thanks Sunner - perhaps I'll take a chance - unless I hear otherwise!

Title: Re: broad beans
Post by: flowerofshona2007 on April 13, 2009, 14:37:15

If you have little notches in the leaves its not pigeons its pea and bean weevil !!
Just hoe the rows often and thats about all you can do they dont do to much damage and as the plants grow they cant reach them !

Title: Re: broad beans
Post by: Anne Field on April 13, 2009, 14:39:31

It's really the wood pigeons I'm worried about - they seem to eat everything else in my garden except for runner beans and french beans!

Title: Re: broad beans
Post by: staris on April 13, 2009, 15:41:49

we have loads of wood pigeons where our allotments are they eat most things but they never semm to touch the beansn