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Growing beans in tubes
For those who are interested in the full version and the discussion via the comments, here is a link to my blog post on getting beans going in tubes
Basic content below...
Broad beans are very frost hardy and will germinate in a soil temperature as low as 2°C (35°F). You could have sown them in the autumn, but I don’t as the mice always eat them if I do! I sow mine in pots/tubes in Feb and plant out good sized plants in March or early April. You can also sow the seed direct around mid March, if the soil is warm enough.
A good indication that it is ok to sow hardy seeds is if the grass has started to grow, the soil temperature will be above 5-6 degrees centigrade and you can sow/plant hardier seeds direct in the ground, or plant out tubers such as potatoes.
BUT IF you have a heavy clay soil wait! Seeds sown in wet or cold soil tend to rot and die. Waiting for a few more weeks won’t hurt.
A black or clear plastic covering over soil will warm it up, so you can sow some seeds a little earlier than usual. Spread plastic sheeting over the areas where you plan to sow the seeds. Weigh down the sides so it can't blow away in winter winds. After 3 - 4 weeks, the soil should be warm enough for seed sowing.
I use big sheets of Geotextile ( weed sheet) which we have a huge roll of, so we have 4 sheets which cover the 4 plots in the veg garden all winter. We turn them back to let the weed seeds geminate, then cover the weeds up to kill them off!
I soak my beans for a few hours to soften the cases and make it easier for the seed to germinate.
I put the tubes in old, broken seed modules (to help support them) standing in a gravel tray (like a seed tray but with no holes) and fill them to within an inch of the top with peat free growing medium. I then put a bean in each tube
and fill the tube to the top with growing medium
I label the trays ( so I know which is which!)
water them well (be gentle, you don't want to over water!)
and cover them with a clear lid, mainly to keep off the mice, but also it adds a bit of warmth in the polytunnel....if you have a cool windowsill that would be fine.
These will have grown leaves within a couple of weeks and will be rerady to plant out by the end of March (if the weather is OK)
For those of you who are interested, I planted these on a waxing moon in the second quarter.
I use the same technique (seeds in pots /tubes) for Runner and French beans a bit later on in the year!
Basic content below...
Broad beans are very frost hardy and will germinate in a soil temperature as low as 2°C (35°F). You could have sown them in the autumn, but I don’t as the mice always eat them if I do! I sow mine in pots/tubes in Feb and plant out good sized plants in March or early April. You can also sow the seed direct around mid March, if the soil is warm enough.
A good indication that it is ok to sow hardy seeds is if the grass has started to grow, the soil temperature will be above 5-6 degrees centigrade and you can sow/plant hardier seeds direct in the ground, or plant out tubers such as potatoes.
BUT IF you have a heavy clay soil wait! Seeds sown in wet or cold soil tend to rot and die. Waiting for a few more weeks won’t hurt.
A black or clear plastic covering over soil will warm it up, so you can sow some seeds a little earlier than usual. Spread plastic sheeting over the areas where you plan to sow the seeds. Weigh down the sides so it can't blow away in winter winds. After 3 - 4 weeks, the soil should be warm enough for seed sowing.
I use big sheets of Geotextile ( weed sheet) which we have a huge roll of, so we have 4 sheets which cover the 4 plots in the veg garden all winter. We turn them back to let the weed seeds geminate, then cover the weeds up to kill them off!
I soak my beans for a few hours to soften the cases and make it easier for the seed to germinate.
I put the tubes in old, broken seed modules (to help support them) standing in a gravel tray (like a seed tray but with no holes) and fill them to within an inch of the top with peat free growing medium. I then put a bean in each tube
and fill the tube to the top with growing medium
I label the trays ( so I know which is which!)
water them well (be gentle, you don't want to over water!)
and cover them with a clear lid, mainly to keep off the mice, but also it adds a bit of warmth in the polytunnel....if you have a cool windowsill that would be fine.
These will have grown leaves within a couple of weeks and will be rerady to plant out by the end of March (if the weather is OK)
For those of you who are interested, I planted these on a waxing moon in the second quarter.
I use the same technique (seeds in pots /tubes) for Runner and French beans a bit later on in the year!
Last edited by Compostwoman on 21st February 2010, 3:20 pm; edited 1 time in total (Reason for editing : to add in the content...which I couldn't get to work last night......)
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Re: Growing beans in tubes
I do peas & beans in tubes. Very good.
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