Growing Broad Beans from Sowing to Harvest

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Are you growing broad beans this season? You can sow broad beans outside in February but if you have mice (or worse, rats) in the garden, there is a very good chance that they will eat the seeds. As broad beans also take up to 2 weeks to germinate, you can loose a lot of growing time waiting for them to come up when they have, in fact, been eaten. For this reason, I prefer to sow in modular trays and use the deep rootrainers above as they hold plenty of compost and give plenty of room for the be

November Garden Job You Shouldn’t Skip: Broad Beans! You can sow broad beans in Ireland & the UK in autumn (October to November) for an earlier crop or in late winter/early spring (February to April) for a summer harvest. Sowing broad beans under cover can give more reliable germination, especially if you have trouble with waterlogged or frozen soil or even pests like mice. You can use any good multi purpose compost. Use trays with large cells. Here we're using trays designed by Huw Richards. Av

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