broadbean bunyard

[upnorth]

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

[upnorth]

[Kepouros]

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.

[Robert_Brenchley]

The pods take a while to appear, but they will develop, even if they haven't been pollinated. In this case, they're empty!

[Larkshall]

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.

[betula]

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. :)