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Broad beans and frost
I plant broad beans at the end of November, It worked fine last
year. This year some renegade beans came up from missed pods, I left them in to see what would happen (they were flowering last week). They now appear to have been killed by the frost. Now, although there seems to be varieties recommended for November planting, all the seed packets seem to say plant in early winter if you want to. So its not variety. Was it because the flowering part of the plant is more delicate? Or do the winter planting come up more frost hardened? -- Mike Reid Walk-eat-photos UK "http://www.fellwalk.co.uk" -- you can email us@ this site Walk-eat-photos Spain "http://www.fell-walker.co.uk" -- dontuse@ all, it's a spamtrap |
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Broad beans and frost
"The Reid" wrote in message
... I plant broad beans at the end of November, It worked fine last year. This year some renegade beans came up from missed pods, I left them in to see what would happen (they were flowering last week). They now appear to have been killed by the frost. Now, although there seems to be varieties recommended for November planting, all the seed packets seem to say plant in early winter if you want to. So its not variety. Was it because the flowering part of the plant is more delicate? Or do the winter planting come up more frost hardened? -- Mike Reid Walk-eat-photos UK "http://www.fellwalk.co.uk" -- you can email us@ this site Walk-eat-photos Spain "http://www.fell-walker.co.uk" -- dontuse@ all, it's a spamtrap This has been my experience for many years now. I don't have a good explanation but newly germinated beans do seem to be quite frost proof while more mature plants are damaged. Ours were sown last week and I don't expect to see much of them before Christmas. -- Rod My real address is rodtheweedygardeneratmyweedyisp Just remove the weedy bits and transplant the appropriate symbol at. |
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Broad beans and frost
Rod Craddock wrote:
"The Reid" wrote in message ... I plant broad beans at the end of November, It worked fine last year. This year some renegade beans came up from missed pods, I left them in to see what would happen (they were flowering last week). They now appear to have been killed by the frost. Now, although there seems to be varieties recommended for November planting, all the seed packets seem to say plant in early winter if you want to. So its not variety. Was it because the flowering part of the plant is more delicate? Or do the winter planting come up more frost hardened? -- Mike Reid Walk-eat-photos UK "http://www.fellwalk.co.uk" -- you can email us@ this site Walk-eat-photos Spain "http://www.fell-walker.co.uk" -- dontuse@ all, it's a spamtrap This has been my experience for many years now. I don't have a good explanation but newly germinated beans do seem to be quite frost proof while more mature plants are damaged. Ours were sown last week and I don't expect to see much of them before Christmas. Broad beans are several of a large number of cultivars of _Vicia faba_. The varieties include the old "horse bean" and "field bean" as well as the Middle Eastern "ful", and they all have quite sharply different progeny -- the seeds of "ful", for example, have a much thinner skin than those of our "field bean", which is why they're more palatable to humans. The Middle-Eastern varieties do seem to grow well in British conditions. My understanding is that it's an annual species, so that should mean that your "volunteers" really are dead, since they've been cut down by frost after an autumn flowering. But this would not be the first time a species treated in cultivation as an annual was actually perennial: we grow plants to suit ourselves, not their genes. I'd leave the row alone till late spring to see what happens: you could end up with extremely vigorous early plants giving a correspondingly early crop (maybe even multi-stemmed) because of a well-developed root system, or the weak crop we might expect from a short-lived perennial, or you could end up with nothing at all. If shoots appear in the spring, give 'em a good feed. It's a valuable experiment, if you have the space. (Don't forget which variety you sowed!) -- Mike. |
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Broad beans and frost
Following up to Mike Lyle
. If shoots appear in the spring, give 'em a good feed. It's a valuable experiment, if you have the space. (Don't forget which variety you sowed!) a couple are in a corner, so I can continue the experiment. -- Mike Reid Walk-eat-photos UK "http://www.fellwalk.co.uk" -- you can email us@ this site Walk-eat-photos Spain "http://www.fell-walker.co.uk" -- dontuse@ all, it's a spamtrap |
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