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mttcarv

Joined: 30 Dec 2005
Posts: 44

Posted: Wed Apr 26, 06 7:30 pm Post subject: feeling very stupid

i think ive made a boo boo.la fortnight ago i walked past a local shop and noticed some plants for sale upon looking closer the pots said broad been plant so i bought two. i got home planted them in feeling very satisfied.
now two weeks later i decide to get 20 pea plants on ebay.they arrived in good condition but it was only then i realised that my two broad bean plants was realy ten bean plants in each pot.

my only exscuse is ive never grown a thing before.but i still feel pretty stupid.
do you think my clumps of beans will grow????they look very healthy at the moment.
thanks for listening any advice gratly appreciated
mat

Cathryn

Joined: 16 Jul 2005
Posts: 19856
Location: Ceredigion

Posted: Wed Apr 26, 06 7:43 pm Post subject:
I won't risk suggesting much - just pleased to hear that you are growing things as well. Could you try gently prising one pot full apart as they haven't been in for too long and could be sort of considered to be at the pricking out stage? I suggest you wait for an experienced broad bean grower though (they are like buses...)

dpack

Joined: 02 Jul 2005
Posts: 45558
Location: yes

Posted: Wed Apr 26, 06 8:03 pm Post subject:

they may be best seperated , b beans are well hard , be gentle with them and pull them apart and plant at, 200mm centres as a staggared pair of rows .
ace plants and the furry pod lining cures warts.
you can cook them as greens as well as harvesting beans .
bit windy but you can live on them .

if they are a tall variety they will need support with stakes and string .
when the blackfly arrive pinch out the top shoot and spray with soap solution

feed with high potasium / phosphorus (guano )they fix nitrogen themselves with the little nodule things so inter crop with leafy stuff or roots .

sneeuwklokje

Joined: 08 Mar 2006
Posts: 277

Posted: Wed Apr 26, 06 8:41 pm Post subject:

Aww, don't feel bad about it. Nice to be surprised!

I can recall once lovingly tending a climbing plant. Watered it, looked after it, had it in a "best pot" and waited with baited breath as the first flower buds started to form. OO the excitement as the buds unfurled themselves to reveal a glorious cerise colour. Yay me! I thought. Right up until someone said: "hey, that's a really nice example of something from the bindweed you have there."

Cathryn

Joined: 16 Jul 2005
Posts: 19856
Location: Ceredigion

Posted: Wed Apr 26, 06 8:56 pm Post subject:
You have got to admit though that bindweed is very lovely if you can ignore it's negative points. I can't, as it is the weed in my garden. In my other one it was ground elder

Gilly

Joined: 24 Apr 2006
Posts: 15

Posted: Wed Apr 26, 06 9:51 pm Post subject: growing beans
Hello mttcarv, Dont worr they can still be salvaged. Just pop into a plant pot, with a marker so you know what they are. Water frequently, and the beans etc., wil pop up. Bye. Gill

hermil

Joined: 04 Sep 2005
Posts: 42
Location: Manchester

Posted: Sun Apr 30, 06 9:55 pm Post subject:

Don't worry, I was planting out some broad beans on our plot this afternoon when the woman who, with her husband, has just taken over the plot next to it said, "What are they? BUSY LIZZIES?"
Her husband is so totally obsessed with getting rid of all the weeds that he has dug the plot over about a zillion times, but not planted anything yet, all he has done is created a lovely seed bed for all the weeds on the allotment site to grow in!
You are doing the right thing - getting things planted even though you might make some mistakes. And at least you admit it! This chap keeps making remarks which he thinks will blind everyone with science and make him look good, but it just exposes the fact that he's got it all from books and computers. They can be useful but there is no substitute in gardening for learning from experience.

wellington womble

Joined: 08 Nov 2004
Posts: 15051
Location: East Midlands

Posted: Mon May 01, 06 8:47 am Post subject:

As long you plant stuff, stuff will grow. And you learn by making mistakes in the garden (some people call it trial and error, and other such scientific things, but what they mean is cocking it up now, and trying to find a better way next year!!) In the garden, most mistakes are cheap and easily fixed, or do it another way next year.

Last year I nutured a lovely healthy looking plant which I thought was a geranium I bought from the garden centre. when it flowered it had lovely yellow flowers, and was very pretty, but was undoubtedly a buttercup. No idea what happened to the geranuim!

mochyn

Joined: 21 Dec 2004
Posts: 24585
Location: mid-Wales

Posted: Mon May 01, 06 10:59 am Post subject:

wellington womble wrote:

Last year I nutured a lovely healthy looking plant which I thought was a geranium I bought from the garden centre. when it flowered it had lovely yellow flowers, and was very pretty, but was undoubtedly a buttercup. No idea what happened to the geranuim!

Don't despair, WW: a lot of the hardy geraniums (not the flashy red things, the beautiful pink/purple ones you can plant out and leave to it) have leaves very like those of buttercups. A clump of one of my favourites has been invaded and it's really hard to saparate the two.

If you like I can post pictures of each for comparison?

wellington womble

Joined: 08 Nov 2004
Posts: 15051
Location: East Midlands

Posted: Mon May 01, 06 5:28 pm Post subject:
I know the difference now! But like you say, they did look similar, and it was right on the spot where I actually planted a geranium - I assume the dogs sat on and killed it. No more geranuims, untill I've pulled up al the buttercup seedlings

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