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Produce => Edible Plants => Topic started by: upnorth on June 13, 2009, 21:30:21
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Hi broadbeans plants about 36 inches high covered in flowers should I be seeing signs of bean pods no sign of blackfly plant look very healthy
Regards steve
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Be patient, maybe the bees haven`t been busy enough yet. The first signs of flowers setting will, obviously, be in the lowest ones on the plants. I usually grow Bunyards, but this year left my ordering too late and could only get green Windsor Longpod, which are as tall as yours,but hardly a flower in sight. Don`t forget to nip out the tops as soon as the flowers start setting to avoid blackfly infestation.
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The pods take a while to appear, but they will develop, even if they haven't been pollinated. In this case, they're empty!
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Let your beans keep growing but watch for blackfly. At the first sign break out all the growing tips. I have done this and now have beans about 1 metre high, smothered with pods, should be a good crop.
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Mine are now covered in flowers.The black fly had started so pulled off the growing tips.Np pods yet.Am getting impatient ;D
I neglected them last year and the got covered in fly........mad with myself will not let that happen again. :)