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Beans, Broad beans, Fava beans

How to grow Broad Beans or Fava Beans

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Broad Beans are one of the most useful crops we can grow, they fill a gap in the garden over winter when little else is growing and the beans germinate at lower temperatures than even grass starts to grow at in spring. This means that we can plant them as early as February and continue to start them off and plant them right up until May, this method gives us a continuance of cropping.

One of the other great things about growing broad beans is like all legumes they fix nitrogen into the soil and this allows us to increase the soil fertility for a follow-on crop which makes them perfect to sow in a bed before nitrogen hungry summer crops.

You can sow seeds directly into the soil, but my preferred method is to raise them in either root trainers or the centre of cardboard toilet rolls. Continue reading How to grow Broad Beans or Fava Beans →

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HOW TO PLANT OUT RUNNER BEANS

Although i say in the intro to this video it climbing and dwarf french beans i also plant Butter Beans which are a type of Runner Bean grown especially for there larger sized beans
The easiest was for most of us for most of us to increase the amount of space we have to grow in is to grow plants vertically. Beans in their many varieties will do this as there normally method of growing is to climb up a support. I filmed this a few weeks ago and will be doing an update shortly to show you how they are growing.

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Beans, mulches, no-dig gardening

Climbing Beans – Maximise Growing Space

In this video I will tell you how to plant most types of Climbing Beans  and most reliable varieties for taste and best cropping along with a couple of more unusual  varieties you may not have tried.

In a couple of weeks I will show you how to plant these out and how to construct the supports they need.

So get sowing and use all that air space above your bed!

If you have encounter any problems with your beans, put the issue on my blog and I will do my best to help.


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