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06-06-2007, 07:53 PM
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 Pinching out broad beans I understand I am supposed to pinch out the tops of my broad beans but I am not sure when. I have had quite a few flowers but the all seem to dry up and fall off. No sniff of a pod yet! I don't to nip out the top only to find that all the flowers fall off without being pollinated and are then not replaced...      |
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06-06-2007, 08:13 PM
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| You only need to pinch the top out if the beans are suffering from blackfly. Mine usually don't (windy spot, maybe they can't land safely!) so I don't. Let them grow on unless there's a problem. Happy harvest!
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06-06-2007, 09:09 PM
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| Thanks, we did have a problem with blackfly but attacked them with washing up liquid and they died/gave up. Hopefully, they'll do something soon - they are becoming the poor relation of my garden with everything else going great-guns! |
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