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Produce => Edible Plants => Topic started by: Tee Gee on April 26, 2016, 14:59:07

Title: Beans
Post by: Tee Gee on April 26, 2016, 14:59:07: Got my Broad Beans & Bolottis in this morning, they are now covered with fleece to deter maurauding birds and frost

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Title: Re: Beans
Post by: Nora42 on April 26, 2016, 16:48:05: great minds Tee Gee my broad beans are covered by environmesh as I grew them in modules and planted them out when they chitted . I had a look yesterday and a fox has left a great big poo on the netting! but a least the magpies and crows have not pulled them up.
Nora
Title: Re: Beans
Post by: Duke Ellington on April 26, 2016, 17:30:53: I am putting in my broad beans on THursday as its my day off.😄 Mine are in modules too but the need to be planted out now.
Title: Re: Beans
Post by: Paulh on April 26, 2016, 21:10:37: I've planted out some broad beans I bought, the ones I sowed in modules outside are barely moving. I won't sow runner and French beans for a couple of weeks yet. It's just too cold and our site has a wind blow straight down it that shreds bean plants until May is going through.
Title: Re: Beans
Post by: johhnyco15 on April 29, 2016, 13:34:28: i dont grow broad beans asim the only person who likes them but my mates does a couple of plots down took this pic today
Title: Re: Beans
Post by: Tee Gee on April 29, 2016, 13:46:29: Your photo look like it was take in a different country from me.

My plot was covered in snow this morning!
Title: Re: Beans
Post by: johhnyco15 on April 29, 2016, 13:49:45: Quote from: Tee Gee on April 29, 2016, 13:46:29
Your photo look like it was take in a different country from me.

My plot was covered in snow this morning!

its amazing what three hours up country can do ive been in a tee shirt all morning but now its getting really windy on the sunshine coast
Title: Re: Beans
Post by: saddad on May 03, 2016, 21:47:31: I have my three (varieties) of Broad Bean in... but French and Barlotti not even out of the packets yet. Next weekend..
Title: Re: Beans
Post by: Tee Gee on May 03, 2016, 22:02:05: Took the fleece of this morning and found that the second and third row are broken and flattened by the weight of the snow and the flapping of the soaking fleece.

Will have to sow some replacements tomorrow.

Welcome to the season of 2016!
Title: Re: Beans
Post by: squeezyjohn on May 04, 2016, 20:11:47: For the first time ever all my autumn sown broad beans came up and are now a couple of foot tall, covered in flowers!

My pole beans, however, were only sown in their modules today!