transplanting broad beans

[Pies]

Hi everybody

Last november i sowed my brodies, i overplanted expecting losses.Well i got losses but not scatterd around but in large blocks.This has left a bed with one end full and the other empty.So can i move some to the other end,they are about 4" high

tia

[zazen999]

Can you not just sow more to take up the slack? Do they need to be at the other end? Or sow peas in the spare space?

[Pies]

Just seems a waste as some at one end will have to come out just wondered if they would survive

[Sylvan]

If you're taking them out anyway is it worth a try? You should be able to tell fairly soon.

[King Carrot]

Just seems a waste as some at one end will have to come out just wondered if they would survive

Why do they have to come out? Even if they're too close together according to whichever book you read, you'll still get a decent crop if they get enough water & nutrition. Following this winter it's probably best to be grateful you have any beans left at all (and winter might not have finished with us just yet!), and do as zazen suggests, sow more beans to fill the row or put something else in the space with no beans.

[Aberdeenplotter]

Yes they will transplant but do make sure to take a good big rootball.

[zazen999]

I always overplant - in beds you can get crops much closer than they recommend in rows.

[Snadger]

I transplanted mine at about this time one year when I switched plots!

No problems at all, as has been mentioned, just take as much soil with them as possible.

[Lotsaveg]

I sowed dwarf french beans in amongst my broad beans during late April. They gave a wonderful follow through crop. Just cut the Broadbeans at ground level when they're finished rather than try and pull them up.

[Two_Sheds]

I do that too Lotsa, I have French beans all over the place mind - this one is on a south facing windowsill

[richardbees]

Yes you can transplant no p[roblems.

I planted mine out last w/e, about 9" tall, changed my mind about spacing overnight and moved half of them into an extra row on Tues. They're doing fine.

[chris]

Sorry to bump this again - can beans be transplanted as a general rule? Thinking of sowing more either in modules, or 3" pots in the greenhouse [mind you it's been 38C in there for the past couple of days - eek!] to test this moon planting... What's their min growing temp (will they be ok in there overnight? Lowest forcast for me is 8c over night this week, 5c overnight next week).

[VirginVegGrower]

Sorry to bump this again - can beans be transplanted as a general rule? Thinking of sowing more either in modules, or 3" pots in the greenhouse [mind you it's been 38C in there for the past couple of days - eek!] to test this moon planting... What's their min growing temp (will they be ok in there overnight? Lowest forcast for me is 8c over night this week, 5c overnight next week).

I always sow in modules and then plant out. Stops the meeces! But if you are sowing lunar style today was last day for fruit following biodynamic until next week.

[VirginVegGrower]

Broad beans can take the cold by the way. You could direct sow if mice are not a problem where you are. Or are you talking about French/Runners? I have sown mine in 3" pots in the greenhouse as they are nit hardy.

[Two_Sheds]

can beans be transplanted as a general rule? Thinking of sowing more ...in the greenhouse [mind you it's been 38C in there...]

What beans are you talking about Chris? Broad beans are a hardy, cool weather crop and don't like hot temps

Runners and French like hot temps and won't grow if cold (min soil temp of about 16c.. I have some in the house, but the ones I sowed in the gh didn't germinate)