How long between flowers and beans?

[janeyo]

My broad beans have been decimated twice by deer, but with some tlc and cloches etc they have recovered. They are not very big - about 5 inches max but are now flowering.
How long before the beans come and surely this plants are too small to support beans yet?

Thanks

[onefivenine]

Dunno but I'm willing to sit guard on your crop for a few nights if I'm in with a chance of some photos of deer nibling them! I suspect I'll put them off though

[Capsid]

Are they overwintered beans? I checked my blog and mine flowered about this time last year and I was eating them about a 3-4 weeks later.

[janeyo]

Are they overwintered beans? I checked my blog and mine flowered about this time last year and I was eating them about a 3-4 weeks later.

No they were sown under glass in January.

[janeyo]

Dunno but I'm willing to sit guard on your crop for a few nights if I'm in with a chance of some photos of deer nibling them! I suspect I'll put them off though

I have lots of deer photos - can't get close enough to really get good ones though with my puny camera. Hopefully we have fenced them out..... but I say this A Lot!

[ann-the-nan]

How long between flowers and beans?

This is slightly at a tangent but i thought I would use this one rather than start a new BB thread.
This is it. I think I read in a thread somewhere that when the Broad Bean has 4 sets of flowers, you pinch the tops out. Well, mine are just about to produce the 4th set - but - they are only 5"-6" high. I didn't envisage picking them on my hands and knees. I haven't grown these for ages, years, but I kinda remember them being at least waist high, if not taller. Can't remember which variety they were, but this lot are Aquadulce.
What do the brains out there say, please?

[Jameslovell]

I noticed today that I have tiny pods starting to form.
Very exciting.
Anyway, they started flowering about 2weeks ago, and I am expecting to pick the beans in a couple of weeks. So you are looking at about 4weeks. Could be less.
It willbe my first crop of the year, woohoo!!!

[cheerfulness]

Mine are only about 7" tall and I've not got flowers yet (might be buds forming as there's a thickened clumping near the tops but I don't know what to look for as its my first year growing them).

My problems is that they were looking really strong and healthy up to 3 days ago but I've checked this morning and the lower leaves are going yellow and there's lots of bite damage on them. Does it sound like they are a gonna? The tops leaves look healthy.

[HayleyB]

Mine are Aquadulce, overwintered and twice covered in snow, the flowers appeared a couple of weeks ago, they are about 12-18" high. Blackfly was spotted in the last few days so I sprayed with liquid diluted Johnsons Baby bath and they seem to have vanished today. Will pick off the tops as soon as the pods start to show but they haven't yet