Thread: Broad bean woes
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Old 15-06-2015, 10:13 PM
mike crowe mike crowe is offline
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Originally Posted by Nick Maclaren[_3_] View Post
I always get a few with no flowers, but this year the majority have
none or almost none. Does anyone know why, or what triggers broad
beans to create flowers?


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Nick Maclaren.
Nick we have done Broad Beans this year for the first time in years. Autumn sowing and they have done fantastically well. Plenty of flowers and we have been harvesting for a couple of weeks now.

Very well composted fed soil on a raised bed.

Unwins Meteor my gardener informs me.