Broad Bean Failure ?

[Mike Vogel]

Thanks for the advice. I'll try Masterpiece Green Longpod one day.
mike

[Johnboy]

Hi Clive,
It's a funny old world. Rats eating the slug bait and Slugs eating the rodent bait! Do you now have to put both out to protect your row of Beans?
JB.

[Clive.]

Hello JB,
It seems that way at the moment...

Clive.

[Fat Andy]

Well folks it looks like I was a little premature. I visited the plot yesterday, removed the cloches and found 2 rows of beans just breaking the surface. The haven't all germinated yet, I'd say I have about an 80% success rate but there's still time for the others. Unfortunately, I did hoe the top off one of them

One thing I did notice was that I'd spaced them a bit too far apart (this is my first year of growing them) so I did a bit of successional planting by sowing some more in the gaps

Thanks for your advice.

FA

[oldherbaceous]

That's good news FA, sometimes you just have to be a bit patient in life, especially when it comes to gardening.

[Clive.]

Pleased to read of the appearance of the Beans....I somehow thought they might just show.

....often a neat systematic line of holes along the row signifies they have gone up a mouse.

Clive.