Kitchen Garden Forum

On the topic of beans, my over wintered broad bean plants are now about 12inches high and are flowering, is this normal, should I worry or just keep watering and weeding? Other's beans seem to be doing the same on the same site.

Sounds like your doing great Compo, you'll be eating them soon.

Have you tried eating the pods? There nice picked when there about 3" long, then steamed. So are the tops when you pinch them out.

Peter

hello. while we're on the subject, my broad beans are always decimated by bean weevil. should i spray them with something while they are still small? will the little blighters come back do you think?

Thanks for the advice PT,,,,will they get bigger than a foot even though they are flowering

On the subject of Bean Weevil I sprayed mine two weeks ago with an organic (apologies for using bad language!) crysanthemum extract insectiside spary from B& Q which knocked back the bean weevil, 2.99 from B & Q also works on aphids and other pests.

that sounds perfect. thanks compo!