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