Sow late Oct - Nov, which I did, but the plants are about 3 inches high
now, will they suffer through the winter?

BTW the seeds are Broad Beans Aquadulce!

Alan

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Sow late Oct - Nov, which I did, but the plants are about 3 inches high
now, will they suffer through the winter?

BTW the seeds are Broad Beans Aquadulce!

Alan


On my packet of aquadulce it said they are frost hardy. This is I believe
one of the most commonly autumn-sown varieties. They should be OK.

Steve

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Sow late Oct - Nov, which I did, but the plants are about 3 inches high
now, will they suffer through the winter?

BTW the seeds are Broad Beans Aquadulce!

Shouldn't come to any harm - they're meant to overwinter, and hardening
them like that is supposed to give some protection against blackfly.

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On Mon, 15 Dec 2003 20:17:56 GMT, Jaques d'Alltrades
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from "Alan Holmes" contains these words:

Sow late Oct - Nov, which I did, but the plants are about 3 inches high
now, will they suffer through the winter?

BTW the seeds are Broad Beans Aquadulce!

Shouldn't come to any harm - they're meant to overwinter, and hardening
them like that is supposed to give some protection against blackfly.

but it seems only other day, that we were told that if one ignores
blackfly they disappear completely.
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We always used to Autumn sow Broad beans when I lived and worked in the
Hastings area in my youth, and that was in the days when winters were
winters, Long, hard frosts and plenty of snow, and the beans would just
laugh at it. never lost more than about 3 or 4 %. We used to hand plant
around half an acre, and were on loam over clay.
This used to give us crops that were around 2 weeks earlier

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but it seems only other day, that we were told that if one ignores
blackfly they disappear completely.

Only in the dark.

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(Alan Holmes) wrote:

but the plants are about 3 inches high
now, will they suffer through the winter?

The only certainties in this life are death and taxes. You will improve
your chances of the beans surviving if you use cloches or other frost
protection.

Steve Harris - Cheltenham - Real address steve AT netservs DOT com

On Tue, 16 Dec 2003 00:19:16 GMT, Jaques d'Alltrades
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but it seems only other day, that we were told that if one ignores
blackfly they disappear completely.

Only in the dark.

so that's her secret :-)
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Sow late Oct - Nov, which I did, but the plants are about 3 inches high
now, will they suffer through the winter?

BTW the seeds are Broad Beans Aquadulce!


It's just about the hardiest Broad Bean but we found when planted in
autumn/early winter we lost a number during the coldest months and we are in
the soft South!. Of course it could have been the quite wide temp.
variations we get that did the damage.
To overcome this we got to planting them at the end of Jan so they only
started to grow as the weather improved which worked well and I don't think
it held back cropping at all.

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Alan Holmes wrote:


Sow late Oct - Nov, which I did, but the plants are about 3 inches high
now, will they suffer through the winter?

BTW the seeds are Broad Beans Aquadulce!

Alan
That's a bit more advanced than I prefer but you might be OK if frosts aren't too
hard. I sow mid/late Nov and expect them to start showing just before or soon
after Christmas - Newly emerged seedlings seem to be much hardier than more
advanced ones. I learned this when watching the response of self sown beans to
frost compared with the November sown ones.
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