cinders
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broadbeansWhat happen to my broadbeans some were ok, some had nothing inside the pod but small seeds Did i pick them to early?
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TAVASCAROW
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Don't know.
Mine didn't even set, loads of flowers but no pods formed yet.
I was late planting but I would have thought they should at least be developing.
Don't think its a bee problem seen plenty of bumbles around.
Got me stumped.
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Kinnopio
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I had a similar problem last year, lots of bees but no flowers setting. I studied the flowers a little more closely and at the baso the flowers there were little holes nibbled out. Someone on here suggested that the problem might be short tongued bees, apparantly these nibble a hole in the base, nick the nectar but don't pollinate the flower!
Someone also suggested watering the plants and flowers late at nigt to help them 'set'. I tried it and it did seem to improve pollination rates althoug I still don't get the number of pods that I think I should be getting.
I'm sure there are more knowledgable people on here who can give more succint advice.
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TAVASCAROW
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Cool!
So some of the bumbles I've seen are short tongue.
Oh well you win some you loose some.
Doesn't help Cinders with her problem though.
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wellington womble
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I had loads of flowers and no beans last year - when I pinhced out the tops, it helped a lot. Dunno why. I did it anyway this year, and it seems to make them set better.
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Jamanda
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We've already eaten all our broad beans. They did well. I need to shove something in the space now.
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Behemoth
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cabbage
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Jamanda
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Yeah? They'll get massacred while we're away though won't they?
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Mary-Jane
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We've got a second lot of broad bean plants just about to go in.
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cab
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Harvesting our fourth (and final) successional crop of broad beans at the moment. These ones are meant to be violet, its quite disappointing that they're green.
Poor setting is often due to poor pollination, sometimes though its 'cos the plants have been struck by blackfly (so some of the beans in the pods just seem to be shrivelled and dead).
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wellington womble
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We'll be eating the last of the BB's tommorow. If I germinate some runners in the greenhouse, is it worth shoving them in the gap, or would I be better putting in late roots?
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TAVASCAROW
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Rather than runners why not french beans?
Thay mature faster.
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wellington womble
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Got some of them, but I could plant some more. I suppose if I had any sense, I'd have planted the runners first, and the dwarfs in the gaps. Next year, then.
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Frewen
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I planted some red flowered broad beans and was going to save them for seed - until I was told that broad beans are floozies and will cross pollinate with others around (perhaps the allotment wasn't a good place to plant them then  ).
But they are ready now much later than the longpod variety that I harvested yonks ago
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dulcilama
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I think (don't quote me) that it's any broad beans within around 3 miles they'll cross with..
..and the purple ones are wonderful, full of flavour and freeze just perfick...
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wizz
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hoping that we're sufficiently isolated to manage to save true (ish) seed from the crimson flowered bbs in the garden. As an experiment thought i'd see what the results of saving the crimson flowered lot from the allotment are like!
wizz
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