How to Grow Broad Beans

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Broad beans are one of the healthy foods that you can eat. If you are interested on how to plant broad beans here are some of the steps that you need to follow.

Broad beans can be sown early spring. When sowing broad beans you do not need a rich soil. You can sow these beans with the soil that has compost from the previous crops.

The broad beans can also be sown in a new ground provided that you have prepared the soil. You have to make sure that it is free from any weeds and large rocks. Planting these beans can continue to promote the good condition of the soil since nitrogen can be secured by legumes in the soil. If you are planning to continue sowing broad beans then you have to change site each year for three years. Keep in mind that it is important that you have to calculate the exact space of your garden for planting broad beans.

If you are done preparing your soil the next important thing that you need to do is to buy or choose the seeds that you are going to plant. The broad beans grow fairly large. If you are checking out the seed catalog, then you may choose the one that is in a small 2 ounce package of broad beans that will plant about 75 ft. of the garden row. But if you are planning to have a smaller garden for your broad beans then you have to choose the 2 ounce packet which has roughly thirty five to forty seeds inside.

It will be better if you are going to start to sow the broad beans early part of May or by late April in order for the broad beans plants to fully grow in early summer while the nights is sill cool. From to sources, these beans love frigid soil.

If you are done sowing the seeds, it is important that you have to take care of it. You have to keep them away from those animals that might disturb the developing stage of the seeds. You can make some fences to protect them from those animals. It is important to keep the soil moist but of course not over flooded. You have to practice general care because these plants are just simple plant to grow.

After counting 65 days, you can choose the broad beans. The pod shell must be about seven to ten inches, it depends on the assortment of the broad beans that you have selected. The broad beans should have at least six to eight light green seeds in every pod. The plant itself can grow for about two feet tall. When harvesting the beans keep in mind that you should not to tear the pods from the stem of the plant. You can use scissors or twist outward or downward.

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