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Limp Broad Beans(was Frost in S. Devon)
We've had about -3C and my Broad Beans have gone very floppy. Will they
recover? I thought they were supposed to be "hardy"? Steve Harris - Cheltenham - Real address steve AT netservs DOT com |
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Limp Broad Beans(was Frost in S. Devon)
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Harris writes We've had about -3C and my Broad Beans have gone very floppy. Will they recover? I thought they were supposed to be "hardy"? Your broad bean plants will have suffered from the rapid drop in temperature but they won't be dead. If you have any horticultural fleece or similar you could give them some protection with it but don't try doing anything else. They should recover when conditions improve and begin to put on new growth, but they will probably have had a set-back resulting in the crop being a little later than it may have been. -- Alan & Joan Gould - North Lincs. |
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Limp Broad Beans(was Frost in S. Devon)
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Alan Gould wrote: In article , Steve Harris writes We've had about -3C and my Broad Beans have gone very floppy. Will they recover? I thought they were supposed to be "hardy"? Your broad bean plants will have suffered from the rapid drop in temperature but they won't be dead. If you have any horticultural fleece or similar you could give them some protection with it but don't try doing anything else. They should recover when conditions improve and begin to put on new growth, but they will probably have had a set-back resulting in the crop being a little later than it may have been. Probably, but not necessarily. The worst conditions are alternating warm, wet ones and hard frosts - those can kill even broad beans. Regards, Nick Maclaren, University of Cambridge Computing Service, New Museums Site, Pembroke Street, Cambridge CB2 3QH, England. Email: Tel.: +44 1223 334761 Fax: +44 1223 334679 |
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Limp Broad Beans(was Frost in S. Devon)
In article , Nick Maclaren
writes Your broad bean plants will have suffered from the rapid drop in temperature but they won't be dead. If you have any horticultural fleece or similar you could give them some protection with it but don't try doing anything else. They should recover when conditions improve and begin to put on new growth, but they will probably have had a set-back resulting in the crop being a little later than it may have been. Probably, but not necessarily. The worst conditions are alternating warm, wet ones and hard frosts - those can kill even broad beans. If you have those weather conditions many plants will have a difficult time but we have never lost broad beans. Dwarf varieties tend be a little less affected than taller ones and a little help with frost protection is a wise precaution at this time of the year. -- Alan & Joan Gould - North Lincs. |
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Limp Broad Beans(was Frost in S. Devon)
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Alan Gould wrote: In article , Nick Maclaren writes Your broad bean plants will have suffered from the rapid drop in temperature but they won't be dead. If you have any horticultural fleece or similar you could give them some protection with it but don't try doing anything else. They should recover when conditions improve and begin to put on new growth, but they will probably have had a set-back resulting in the crop being a little later than it may have been. Probably, but not necessarily. The worst conditions are alternating warm, wet ones and hard frosts - those can kill even broad beans. If you have those weather conditions many plants will have a difficult time but we have never lost broad beans. Dwarf varieties tend be a little less affected than taller ones and a little help with frost protection is a wise precaution at this time of the year. I did. 30-40% died or failed to crop, and the rest took so long to ecover that they were overtaken by the spring sowing and then cropped abysmally. The variety was Aquadulce. I have tried again since, but the evidence was clear enough that I dug them up in the spring and reused the space. For reasons I can't explain, my garden always has had some particularly nasty fungi with a predeliction for beans - broad beans are the most resistant and I rarely lose more than a few percent, but I have lost 95% of dwarfs (and 90% of peas) many times. What I would advise anyone with limp broad beans is to wait until the weather starts to warm. If the beans are showing signs of getting on with it, fine; if many are dead and all are sick, scrap them and replant. This isn't a subtle difference, so no experience is needed to tell the two cases apart! Regards, Nick Maclaren, University of Cambridge Computing Service, New Museums Site, Pembroke Street, Cambridge CB2 3QH, England. Email: Tel.: +44 1223 334761 Fax: +44 1223 334679 |
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