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17 Jul 09, Emma (United Kingdom - warm/temperate climate)

Good luck Marion, hope you get a decent crop. Pinching the tops out is supposed to help deter the blackfly too. Did you know you can eat the tops like baby spinach? They're nice steamed and tossed in some butter and seasoning.

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17 Jul 09, ben (United Kingdom - cool/temperate climate)

there have been no beans only flowers falling off can u help me so email me at [email protected] thanks

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19 Jul 09, tony (Australia - temperate climate)

thank you for reducing my worries about my broad bean plants not setting either. I was informed that i may have planted my broad beans too close together and the plants were not getting enough sunlight? They flowered well compared to last year, but now the flowers have fallen and no setting yet . . .hopefully i just have to be patient. :)

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19 Jul 09, Emma (United Kingdom - warm/temperate climate)

To Ben & Tony, if you have had flowers then I'm sure you will get pods. The flowers drop off and then the pods will form, just give it a bit more time ! Tony, I've done square foot gardening this year and I crammed 6 plants into a square foot and had a great crop. Patience is truly a virtue when it comes to gardening !

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24 Jul 09, rex (Australia - sub-tropical climate)

do you prop bean plants up between two wires or rope please

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25 Jul 09, Barb (Australia - sub-tropical climate)

Previous years I've harvested broad beans around October, so it's still very early. This year I was late getting them in, so they're still small, not yet flowering. Watch out for any ants - usually means they're farming aphids feeding on the tops of your broadbeans. Last year I put vaseline around each of the the broad bean stalks which stopped the ants, and the broad beans didn't seem to mind.

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25 Jul 09, Marilyn (Australia - cool/mountain climate)

Beans in flower and plants are 5ft tall. Flowers are just starting - when can we expect the setting to commence?

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27 Jul 09, Ian C. Purdie (Australia - temperate climate)

I've had my broad beans in for quite awhile now. Central Coast NSW and flowering vigorously but lower, earlier ones dropping off. No budding pods. Today I noticed ants quite active but I can see no evidence of aphids? Grew BB previously in Sydney no trouble.

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28 Jul 09, New farmer (Australia - cool/mountain climate)

I have 2 locations in my backyard to grow the broad beans, but the result is totally different, one area the beans grow very well, but the other place, there are no leaf left, all gone, I don't know why?

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06 Aug 09, Teena (Australia - temperate climate)

Hi. I have a beautiful tall (1.5M) BB plant and many other small ones which were planted much later. ALL of the plants have ants around the new growth. There doesn't seem to be any other insect around at all. Do I need to do anything? And, flowers are dropping off the big one but I can see any beans forming. Is this normal? PS. I am a very new gardener. Teena

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