Winter beans

[shakerator]

Beans have no vernalisation requirement so winter seeds are a useful hedge

 

[Oat]

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]

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.

 

[Oat]

I have planted Clipper (winter beans) in the spring around April time. I think they were harvested September/October

 

[shakerator]

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]

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.

 

[tw15]

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.

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 .

 

[Zippy768]

Has many harvested their winters yet? Ours still at 17% . Dont seem to want to drop

 

[Bob lincs]

Just done ours at 15.4% . Now in s beans , stems are still very green but the beans are 16% .

 

[Zippy768]

Just done ours at 15.4% . Now in s beans , stems are still very green but the beans are 16% .

Crikey our springs are still very green. If I was planning on spraying off, they aren't even at that stage yet!

 

[tw15]

Longer in the bed more in the shed Zippy .

 

[Zippy768]

Longer in the bed more in the shed Zippy .

That'll be handy. Pay for all the extra drying needed when I cut them in October!

 

[Wombat]

Longer in the bed more in the shed Zippy .

Did work for the couple of local people who combined last years spring beans this March

 

[AndrewM]

did our winter beans over the bank holiday, my cheap moisture meter was reading 16.1 but grain store made them 14.9

 

[MrNoo]

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

 

[goodevans]

15 .6 here in Shropshire today on my meter

 

[Zippy768]

Checked them again on the way home. Now 14.7%
They have sat at 17% for a week, all change with one hot day