Showing posts with label broad beans. Show all posts
Showing posts with label broad beans. Show all posts

Tuesday 19 February 2013

Broad beans.

Today we have sown directly into the soil in February for harvests as early as May.
Broad beans usually take anywhere from 7 to 14 days to germinate.
‘Aquadulce Claudia’: A large, very hardy longpod cultivar for autumn or early spring sowing.
And Radish French Breakfast.
Amongst the beans I put in some radishes
This fast-growing catch crop will mature before the Broad Beans grow big and block out their light.
I'll wait at least another couple of weeks - perhaps 3 or 4 - before sowing my next lot of Broad Beans.

BBC - Gardening - Gardening Guides - Techniques - Growing broad beans:
- These Aquadulce Claudia were sown mid November./charles_dowding/
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Friday 2 March 2012

Sowing.

Planting: Fruit tree - 25 feb 
Chitting Potatoes: 28 feb


Sowing:
- Leeks
- Celeriac 
- Early Peas (grown in situ)
A good tip for broad beans and peas is to sow a short row every three weeks between now and April, providing a constant succession of crops between June and October. For the first sowing of peas, choose a wrinkled pea such as 'Celebration', a delicious petit pois type, or try sugar snaps or mangetouts. A real beauty is 'Carouby de Mausanne', a C19th French mangetout with the added benefit of great good looks with lilac flowers.


Under Cloche:  radish, lettuce,  dill.


Parsnips -  come up, digg up.


Vegetable seeds