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This is my first post so a big HELLO to everyone, can I have some advice please. I have started my broad beans off in the greenhouse but they have become leggy. Can I pinch them out or do I leave them and just have extra tall plants.

Dont pinch them out, if you have a cloche then plant them out under it and they should work out ok.

Cheers Chris

I thought you were supposed to pinch them out to encourage wider thicker growth? With the wind we have in York I could do with my B.B's to be 1" heigh and 4ft wide.

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Hi and welcome to the Vine DD

what variety did you plant and when? To my knowledge you don't pinch out the BB's until they flower and this is to discourage blackfly.

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Suzie

Thank-you for your replies, they are Aquadulce and I planted them about 3 weeks ago. I did put them out in a cloche on Friday but on Saturday the cloche and the beans were all over the garden due to the high winds. I will try again when the winds die down.

Don't pinch them out.

Give them some support from a stick to keep them upright and get them in the ground asap (after they have been hardened off).

My aquadulce are much too tall, too, but I'm just ignoring it

These are mine, photo taken a couple of weeks ago they are now about twice as big.

Aquadulce can be hardenened off and put in the garden soon. They do grow quite tall so are probably not leggy - just getting on with it. Don't pinch out! Stake!

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Updated November 17th - The Big Dig

I read somewhere that you could pinch them out to encourage stronger thicker plants, so I have ! Well I have with the 6 that I sowed down south. As I'm still wanting to move them back north of the border, I've had to pot them on as they'll not get home and in the ground until after Easter.

Lord knows how the 8 I sowed in Glasgow are doing as they were just bunged in a semi windowless greenhouse a month ago. Those sown north of the border were much taller and leggier than those sown down south. Apart from everything else over the past few months, it's been an interesting exercise in comparing the two sowings.

Just hope I'm not too late to sow my Suttons when I get back.

This season has gone to pot already and we've only just started !

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