Winter beans

Oat

Member
Location
Cheshire
I have ploughed them in before and then cultivated with a spring tine. I was surprised how much of a row arrangement they emerged in. The next time I just planted them straight into some min-till ground with a spring tine like coulter.
 

Tractor Boy

Member
Location
Suffolk
Beans have no vernalisation requirement so winter seeds are a useful hedge
I understand winter beans don’t require vernalisation but if I don’t get home saved Wizard beans in this autumn how late in the spring do I plant them? I haven’t got any spring beans to save and they’ll be expensive to buy, but as I direct drill if I end up into April would I have been better off buying a spring variety? I presume very late Spring drilled winter beans could be very slow to develop and get to harvest.
 

shakerator

Member
Location
LINCS
I understand winter beans don’t require vernalisation but if I don’t get home saved Wizard beans in this autumn how late in the spring do I plant them? I haven’t got any spring beans to save and they’ll be expensive to buy, but as I direct drill if I end up into April would I have been better off buying a spring variety? I presume very late Spring drilled winter beans could be very slow to develop and get to harvest.
No real difference imv

winters shorter and bigger seed obv

I’ve had them outyield fuego April sown
 

Brisel

Member
Arable Farmer
Location
Midlands
Looking like it will be 75 acres of beans now for you to claydon dril kind sir .

Right-oh. If you can sort a dry fornight so we can get our wheat sown, you get your soya cut & I'll be over. The seed doesn't have to be magically clean but the drill seed pipes are only 25mm so not too much trash please. (y)
 

tw15

Member
Location
DORSET
Right-oh. If you can sort a dry fornight so we can get our wheat sown, you get your soya cut & I'll be over. The seed doesn't have to be magically clean but the drill seed pipes are only 25mm so not too much trash please. (y)
Seed all cleaned by E and P and all sat in bags now so ready when you get drilled up. Hoping the soya will be dry enough by Tuesday or Wednesday its coming off before the next lot of rain comes . As it doesn't shed like peas and still looks ok in the pods .
 

MrNoo

Member
Arable Farmer
Location
Cirencester
Cut most of my winters (autumn sown) last week, still have 20ac of spring sown Tundra's to combine, still green, reckon a couple of weeks time. Some were very short (we had a very cold East wind + frost) which really hammered them. Think they will have just about wiped their face. Enjoyed growing them, a nice change from OSR, plenty of wildlife in them
 

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