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Broad beans flowering already!?
My broad beans, sowed last autumn, are nice sturdy young plants now.
However, most of them have already started to flower, despite them being no more than 12" tall, and it being no less than about 3 months early! Has anyone else encountered this problem (if indeed it is a problem)? Should I pinch the flowers out or just let them get on with it? Andy -- spargeatbtinternetdotcom We must be fearless We must have fearlessness We must not be fearlessnessless We must not have fearlessnesslessness We must be fearlessnesslessnessless |
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Broad beans flowering already!?
David D Stretch wrote:
: On Thursday 29 Mar 2007 11:45, Andy Spragg : ) wrote: : :: My broad beans, sowed last autumn, are nice sturdy young plants now. :: However, most of them have already started to flower, despite them :: being no more than 12" tall, and it being no less than about 3 :: months early! Has anyone else encountered this problem (if indeed it :: is a problem)? Should I pinch the flowers out or just let them get :: on with it? : : Ours were planted at the same time, and are a bit smaller than that. : But they are also flowering. : David Well that's what they do. Don't pinch them out yet, let them grow taller with more flower. I pinch out when they're about 3 feet or so tall. I use a few ropes tied horizontally along the row at 9" intervals approx to support the row against the wind |
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Broad beans flowering already!?
Andy Spragg wrote:
My broad beans, sowed last autumn, are nice sturdy young plants now. However, most of them have already started to flower, despite them being no more than 12" tall, and it being no less than about 3 months early! Has anyone else encountered this problem (if indeed it is a problem)? Should I pinch the flowers out or just let them get on with it? Andy Don't pinch 'em out, Andy. Your gonna have the first broad beans in the country! Sam (enviously). ps pick'em young. |
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Broad beans flowering already!?
On Thu, 29 Mar 2007 17:52:57 +0100, Robert (Plymouth) wrote:
David D Stretch wrote: : On Thursday 29 Mar 2007 11:45, Andy Spragg : ) wrote: : :: My broad beans, sowed last autumn, are nice sturdy young plants now. :: However, most of them have already started to flower, despite them :: being no more than 12" tall, and it being no less than about 3 :: months early! Has anyone else encountered this problem (if indeed it :: is a problem)? Should I pinch the flowers out or just let them get :: on with it? : : Ours were planted at the same time, and are a bit smaller than that. : But they are also flowering. : David Well that's what they do. Don't pinch them out yet, let them grow taller with more flower. I pinch out when they're about 3 feet or so tall. I use a few ropes tied horizontally along the row at 9" intervals approx to support the row against the wind So nothing unusual then? It's just that it's the third time I've grown autumn-sown IIRC, and I don't remember anything like such early flowering before ... mind you, I'm hard-pressed to remember /anything/ before last week these days. Andy -- spargeatbtinternetdotcom No man is an island, and almost no man is a peninsula |
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