On 06/04/2011 20:49, harry wrote:
Broad beans don't generally need support except in very windy places.
The hieght can be from a foot to three feet. Some have multiple
shoots from the bottom,some just the one.
Your worst problem will probably be blackfly on the top leaves of the
plant.
You can spray with nasty insecticide, if available in France, or
remove the top few inches of plant when they appear. This encourages
the lower beans to develope faster too.

I'm not a fan of insecticides. So it looks like removing the top few
inches when beans have set below.

Out of curiosity does spraying blackfly with diluted washing up liquid
kill them? I find it quite effective against greenfly on lupins etc, but
needs to be repeated periodically.

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David in Normandy.
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