Beans (Broad) – Bunyards Exhibition

£6.49

Bunyards Exhibition is a popular heritage variety that produces tall plants and good crops of tasty beans.

Beans (Broad) – Bunyards Exhibition Information

Your plants will arrive in multi-sown plugs, and be approximately 15 - 25 cm tall
Number of vegetable plant plugs in the box: 10
Latin name for Beans (Broad) – Bunyards Exhibition: Vicia faba

An English Heritage variety introduced pre-1835, Broad Bean – Bunyards Exhibition are a firm favourite of chefs worldwide due to their fantastic colour and subtle flavour. Bunyards Exhibition produce tall plants that are easy to grow, it remains a popular old variety with home gardeners. The beans are sweet and tasty and retain their colour after cooking. Broad beans are nitrogen fixers, which means that they add important nutrients to the soil whilst they are growing your dinner.

Beans planting schedule

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Planning your site

Beans like well-drained, fertile soil and a sheltered sunny spot in the garden where they won’t be blown about too much. Plant the plugs in double rows, 23cm apart. Stagger the plants along each set of double rows to make the most of the space. Support your broad bean plants to prevent them from flopping under their own weight. Simply place a cane or stout stick at each corner of a double row and tie a taut piece of string between each cane. This is especially important in windy gardens. Keep your plants well watered, particularly as the flowers begin to set. They will grow really well in raised beds or in pots which have plenty of rich growing medium.

Growing tips

The more you harvest, the more will grow! Try to wait til your pods have reached a decent size – we know it’s hard but they will become sweeter as the starches mature! Make sure you keep beans well and regularly watered and don’t let them dry out. When the lowest truss of blossom has formed small pods, pinch out the tips of the beans to promote fruit set and reduce problems with bean aphid. The tips of Broad Beans are absolutely delicious steamed or stir-fried and eaten – win win!

What to watch out for

Broad beans are susceptible to the fungal diseases Chocolate spot and Broad Bean rust, and beans in general may host Blackfly aphid, Pea & Bean weevil, be nibbled by mice particularly when young.

What to do when your plants arrive

Unpack them. Your seedlings will arrive carefully packed in bio-degradable straw, cardboard and paper. They may look a little bit bedraggled from their journey. Don’t panic – this is totally normal and they should soon perk up. Please try and unpack your plants as soon as they arrive, as every extra hour they spend in the box will add to the stress of travelling to their new home.
Give them a drink. Having spent a day or two in the post, your new plants will be thirsty! Stand them up in some fresh water for a few minutes to make sure their roots have been thoroughly soaked before planting.
Plant them out into their forever home! Your plants can’t wait to get their roots into the soil. Plant them out according to the instructions that will have come in the box with them. Make sure you water them in well, and give them plenty to drink until their roots have had a chance to get settled.

Substitutions

As you well know, plants are unpredictable creatures and so is the British weather. As such, we reserve the right to substitute items in your order for an equivalent variety. To find out more about substitutions, please take a look at our terms and conditions.

Delivery

We charge a flat shipping fee of £6.99 per shipping season. If you order everything from one season ie Spring you will be charged once, if you order Spring and Summer you will be charged twice etc. We do not ship outside of the UK.

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