Bean : Broad Bean : Medes
Vegetable
- Cropping: 70 Days
- Height: 36 inches
- Ideal for: Children
Description
An excellent cropper with medium-sized pods, each containing 5-6 tender white beans with impeccable flavour. Plants are medium height and neatly compact. Suitable for spring sowing. Highly recommended for freezing. Height 90cm (36in).
Sowing Instructions
Sow the seed at any time in the open ground from spring to early summer, or under cloches from autumn through to late winter, 5cm (2in) deep, 23cm (9in) apart in rows 30cm (12in) apart. Any fertile, well drained soil is ideal.
Growing Instructions
As soon as 4 clusters of bloom are showing, remove all further flower spikes to induce earlier crops and help prevent blackfiy.
