Yellow leaves on Broad Beans

[sanman]

I have some fine young broad bean plants which are about 10 inch tall. The lower leaves seem to be yellowing, any ideas?

many thanks
Mark

[rustylady]

Are they in open ground, or in pots? Yellowing lower leaves suggests lack of food or water, and I don't think I have ever seen it in broad beans. I would make sure they have enough water, and if necessary apply a fertiliser (either round the plants and water in or a foliar feed)
Tomatoes do this regularly, and so do brassicas (esp sprouting broccoli and brussel sprouts) - in these cases you just pull the yellow (dead) leaves off. This leaves room for the fruit (or sprouts) to develop and causes no harm to the plant.