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  • Autumn sown peas and beans

    Thought it might be useful if we gathered together all the hardy varieties of peas and beans that can be sown between September and December to overwinter and provide an earlier crop than those sown in spring.
    Any advice that you can share welcome

    I shall be sowing:-

    Wizard Field beans
    Supaquadulce Broad beans
    Bunyards Exhibition Broad beans
    The Sutton Broad beans.

    Meteor peas
    Carouby de Maussane peas
    Douce provence peas
    Tom Thumb aka Half Pint
    Oskar
    Bijou mangetout for pots in the GH

    Twinkle peas for pea shoots

    I start all of them in modules or guttering, then plant out when sturdy enough.

    Anyone else Bean Pea-ing?
    Last edited by veggiechicken; 23-10-2017, 06:40 PM. Reason: Adding more I found in my seed box!

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    To sow now I've got Meteor Pea & Douce Provence Pea
    Broad Bean The Sutton & Broad Bean Aquadulce Claudia
    I sowed some meteor peas direct outside the other week & noticed they've germinated & there's a mouse,I sowed a lot more than that!
    Location : Essex

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    • #3
      I grew early Broad Beans last year and they were knocked back by everything, the seeds sowed direct were better than the pot grown ones, this year I won't be sowing anything before Boxing Day.

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      • #4
        Wizard beans outside and Winterkefe peas in one of the greenhouses. Irish Seedsvers says
        If sown under cover in October, Winterkefe will produce wonderful pink and magenta flowers from February and an abundant crop of mangetout from mid-April onwards
        I planted them in February last year and had a lovely crop, so I'm hoping the even earlier sowing will work as well!

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        • #5
          I've sown broad bean Superaquadulce and The Sutton, in root trainers in the coldframe.

          Superaquadulce up already.
          Last edited by bario1; 23-10-2017, 05:26 PM.
          He-Pep!

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          • #6
            I sowed The Sutton earlier this month both in the intended crop location squares and a few each in all my unused squares as a combination of a bit of soil conditioning (since the beds are brand new) and, hopefully, to deter the local moggies form doing their business on my beds.
            Most of them are up, some are already heading for 6" up.

            I'll skip on peas until spring, it gets too draughty up here in the winter.

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