… to tie up your broad beans and I’m pretty sure that once they’ve already fallen over is probably not it.
(hmm. Must weed more before taking these pictures)
Still that’s the way it’s been in the garden this year and with the weather ‘forecast’ hovering between grim and normal for January, we took advantage of a break in the weather and dashed up to the plot to put some stakes and string in and straighten things out a little
I do like broad beans. I just do.
And unlike French beans, they don’t utterly ignore any support you have provided for them and strike off on their own.
Love my broad beans straight off the plant, raw. Like peas, they never make it as far as the kitchen.
I’m always amazed at how exotic looking they are, yet so tough. Of course last year we barely got an beans off them …
I was surprised to see mine still standing on Saturday morning after the heavy rain and wind the day before. Mind you they are only about knee height which helps. xx
Just tied mine up a few days ago (too late) and they still keep lying all over the earth, refusing any help. I even planted double rows to ‘support each other’. They just lie all over the place together. Yours look much more orderly than mine. Any ideas on how to produce masses of the things? I never seem to have enough of the babies.
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