Pinching out broad beans

[tomtom87]

I understand I am supposed to pinch out the tops of my broad beans but I am not sure when.

I have had quite a few flowers but the all seem to dry up and fall off. No sniff of a pod yet! I don't to nip out the top only to find that all the flowers fall off without being pollinated and are then not replaced...

[Flummery]

You only need to pinch the top out if the beans are suffering from blackfly. Mine usually don't (windy spot, maybe they can't land safely!) so I don't. Let them grow on unless there's a problem. Happy harvest!

[tomtom87]

Thanks, we did have a problem with blackfly but attacked them with washing up liquid and they died/gave up.

Hopefully, they'll do something soon - they are becoming the poor relation of my garden with everything else going great-guns!