Windsor Broad Beans-25 Seeds

Windsor Broad Beans-25 Seeds

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Heritage variety-Broad Windsor beans are prolific yielders. Plants produce long 15-20 cm pods with 4-6 large, flat beans inside. This variety is also tolerant of frost and has fragrant flowers. Sow seeds when the soil is warm and all danger of frost is past. Pick early and often to encourage production. Pick when plump and cook like peas or lima beans. This large variety will fix nitrogen in your soil, so it’s perfect for planting in the fall, harvesting in the spring, and following with nitrogen-loving crops like Brassicas, lettuce, or spinach. Fresh or dried, broad beans must be cooked before eating in order to rid them of potentially toxic alkaloids. The young, tender leaves can be eaten raw, or cooked like spinach. Broad beans are one of the world’s most ancient and widespread food crops.

 

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QUICK FACTS

  • Broad Bean

  • Open-pollinated

  • Heirloom

  • Easy shelling

Garden Beans require warm soil and good growing conditions. The seeds will decay quickly when planted in cold wet soil. The use of Garden Inoculant at the time of planting can greatly increase yields.

Beans do best when planted in full sun. Warm, well-drained soil is best.   Planting where beans and peas have not been grown for at least a year will help reduce insect and disease problems.

Once danger of frost has passed and the soil has warmed, directly sow bean seeds into gardens or raised beds.

Seeds germinate in approximately 6-14 days.

Bush Beans: Sow seed 2.5 cm (1”) deep. Space seeds approximately 10 cm (4”) apart. Space rows 60 cm (24”) apart.

Pole Beans: Sow seed 2.5 cm (1”) deep. Space seeds approximately 10 cm (4”) apart at the base of a pole or support.

Bush beans produce an entire crop all at once while pole beans produce over the entire growing season. Keeping beans picked on both types of plants will increase production. Depending on the needs of the gardener, those who want to can or freeze a lot of beans may want to grow bush beans for a large harvest all at once where planting pole varieties will allow the gardener to harvest all season long but making succession plantings of bush beans will produce similar results.

Don’t work in bean patch while plants are wet/damp – this will help reduce the spread of disease

Make sure plants receive adequate moisture during and immediately after flowering and once pods have formed to ensure a higher yield of nicely shaped beans.

Pole beans need support to climb. Use poles, strings, trellises or make tepees for the beans to climb.

Beans can be picked when pods are young and tender.

Harvest often to increase yields.

Remove pods that are too old for eating as the old pods take away nutrients from developing pods and reduce yields – if pods get large with seed, the plant will stop flowering.

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