broad beans

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• bookmonster Posts: 399

  October 2019

  Sounds good. Between slugs, nice and birds I don't direct sow anything

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• Nanny Beach Posts: 8,719

  October 2019

  The seeds live in the wardrobe that is NOT the mice!!! There is an OLDE SAYING from my days as a country girl, when you sow peas, "one for the rook,one for the crow, one to rot and one to grow".  I have been gardening 60 years (OMG!!!) and it was only a few years ago, I heard Alan Titchmarsh say you expect 70-80% germination on seeds, up till then I thought I must be doing something wrong.  Just shows you can teach an old dog new tricks!! WOOOF
  

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• Dovefromabove Posts: 88,147

  October 2019

  Nanny Beach said:

  ... I heard Alan Titchmarsh say you expect 70-80% germination on seeds,...
  

  And that's if you get all the conditions right and the weather stays fair ...

  
  Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
  
  
  
  
  
  

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