Broad Beans

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• Dovefromabove Posts: 88,147

  May 2020 edited May 2020

  I would go with the netting ... if the wind is so strong it’ll snap the plants it’ll probably blow the blooms off so you’ll get no beans! 

  
  

  We’re in windy East Anglia ... ‘nothing to stop the wind between here and the Urals’ ... I sowed my broad beans direct in the garden at the end of October... they’ve had no protection or support ... from the look of things we’ll be picking the first beans within the next ten days. 

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

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• nick615 Posts: 1,487

  May 2020

  Again if you intend this method to be a regular occurrence, and if you'd like to keep your broom handles clean for future quilting activity, you may be aware of heat shrink plastic that can be slipped over something (various sizes available) then, by holding it over a gas jet or similar, it'll shrink and form a tight skin on what's inside it.  Thus, a quick wipe clean and it's back to normal.
  

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• midnightblue Posts: 66

  May 2020

  Thanks nick165 that's amazing, I had no idea such a thing existed!
  

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• nick615 Posts: 1,487

  May 2020

  @midnightblue https://www.amazon.co.uk/Heat-shrink-Tubing/b?node=10256618031  see last two items on the second row.  Various diameters of tubing that can be slipped over something cold and then heated.  Used regularly by electricians to hold bunches of wires together.
  

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