I've checked my packet of beans and they are also Aquadulce Claudia (I'm new to veg growing) so hopefully they will survive everything this winter brings with no intervention!
The main problem with winter planting is wind rock, I was forever out there in the gales, and we had some last winter, trying to stake them and tread the ground down around them, thats probably what stunted them as they flowered the same time as the Spring ones.
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
I too find it''s best to wait till spring or I spend all winter worrying abut them being frozen blown over or otherwise smashed by storms. Given winters here it's a better bet and the spring sown ones soon catch up.
I occasionally get some blacfly but the tits and sparrows soon hoover them up for their nestlings.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
Does anyone have problems with slus and snails for these winter crops of beans? I tried to grow these last year and lost a lot of them - I suspect it was a snail problem as these are a pest during the growing season as the clay soil seems to suit them.
Nothing has ever eaten enough of my broad beans to do any damage - (she says crossing her fingers and touching wood!) And every single one has germinated
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Posts
Ok thanks for that advice Dove. I'll give it a go
Thanks for all advice, especially Dovefromabove.
I've checked my packet of beans and they are also Aquadulce Claudia (I'm new to veg growing) so hopefully they will survive everything this winter brings with no intervention!
thanks again to all!
The main problem with winter planting is wind rock, I was forever out there in the gales, and we had some last winter, trying to stake them and tread the ground down around them, thats probably what stunted them as they flowered the same time as the Spring ones.
I too find it''s best to wait till spring or I spend all winter worrying abut them being frozen blown over or otherwise smashed by storms. Given winters here it's a better bet and the spring sown ones soon catch up.
I occasionally get some blacfly but the tits and sparrows soon hoover them up for their nestlings.
Does anyone have problems with slus and snails for these winter crops of beans? I tried to grow these last year and lost a lot of them - I suspect it was a snail problem as these are a pest during the growing season as the clay soil seems to suit them.
Nothing has ever eaten enough of my broad beans to do any damage - (she says crossing her fingers and touching wood!) And every single one has germinated
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Congratulations! Perhaps I will be more fortunate this year.
I'll keep my fingers crossed for you too
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I'm trying broad beans for the first time on clay here in Essex Newcastle, we'll have to compare notes next year.
Look forward to comparing results. Ciao.