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    Hi

    We are new to gardening and we planted some broad beans in nov and they were doing really well and then we had the snow and they have now started to grow sideways!!! the stems seem to been bent by the snow.

    Is there anything i can do?

    Ben
    New to this gardening lark... fingers slowly turning green!

  • #2
    I'd put some canes/sticks next to them and encourage the back up again.
    This happened to us last year!
    "Nicos, Queen of Gooooogle" and... GYO's own Miss Marple

    Location....Normandy France

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    • #3
      Hi Ben and welcome - lovely avatar

      Yep, cane 'em up
      aka
      Suzie

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      • #4
        I must confess that this is the reason I stopped sowing broadies in the autumn. I only got an earlier crop by 3 weeks and they were all over the place, with bits of cane stuck in. I'm not a tidy gardener but this got on me wick! I hope you can make them stand up again - they'll still crop but if the beans are on the ground the slugs will have a party.
        Whoever plants a garden believes in the future.

        www.vegheaven.blogspot.com Updated March 9th - Spring

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        • #5
          At least you've got some
          S*d the housework I have a lottie to dig
          a batch of jam is always an act of creation ..Christine Ferber

          You can't beat a bit of garden porn

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          • #6
            I wouldn't try and train them up a cane, because the bent bit won't unbend anyway.

            They'll still grow and produce beans
            All gardeners know better than other gardeners." -- Chinese Proverb.

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            • #7
              I thought a plants natural tendency was to grow upwards, all to do with a chemical production in the cell I think, but could be very wrong. The root grows toward the gravitational centre of the earth and the stem away, so they plant should grow upwards after the kink.

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              • #8
                Originally posted by COMPOST CORNER View Post
                I thought a plants natural tendency was to grow upwards, all to do with a chemical production in the cell I think, but could be very wrong. The root grows toward the gravitational centre of the earth and the stem away, so they plant should grow upwards after the kink.
                Yes, the chemicals are called auxins.

                Auxins
                Mark

                Vegetable Kingdom blog

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                • #9
                  they were fine for the first 6-8 inches and then it snowed and coved them for about 3-4 days and then they have started to grow all funny!!! I will just give them love and hope for the best.

                  thank u for your advice.

                  Ben
                  New to this gardening lark... fingers slowly turning green!

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                  • #10
                    Originally posted by Capsid View Post
                    Yes, the chemicals are called auxins.

                    Auxins
                    I thought it was Auxins, but then doubted my memory, Damn!!

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                    • #11
                      You then have an 8" trailing bit along the ground followed by an upright bit. Looks wierd. I don't bother now.
                      Whoever plants a garden believes in the future.

                      www.vegheaven.blogspot.com Updated March 9th - Spring

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                      • #12
                        Mine also bent over, but I noticed at the weekend, that besides beginning to grow up, most are also shooting again from the base.
                        I could not live without a garden, it is my place to unwind and recover, to marvel at the power of all growing things, even weeds!
                        Now a little Shrinking Violet.

                        http://potagerplot.blogspot.com/

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                        • #13
                          Originally posted by BarleySugar View Post
                          Mine also bent over, but I noticed at the weekend, that besides beginning to grow up, most are also shooting again from the base.
                          Mine too are doing that as well!
                          AKA Angie

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