As I’ve just posted about sowing broad beans I can remind myself of how they were doing a little over six weeks from today, two years ago. I’d just planted them out.
I can’t for the life of my remember why I put these mesh cloches over them though. It may have been so that I could cover them with fleece in the event of a likely heavy frost without damaging the plants.
There appear to be around 20 plants here. This year I’ve planted far more on the grounds that there never seem to be enough that are ready to pick at the same time and leaving them until there are enough means we end up with much larger and tougher beans.