Winter beans
- Thread starter Bigjon44
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CORK
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- Location
- East Cork, Ireland
They can alert you to the presence of leather jackets (and they are probably the only cure now…). That’s the only service I can think of for now.
CORK
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- Location
- East Cork, Ireland
I don’t think they do much or anything for slugs unfortunately. Never saw crows anytime we had a serious slug problem (which has been more than once!)
- Location
- Dorset/Wilts
Seeing them over emerging wheat, I always like to think they were helping me with the slug issue.......and I chucked pellets about
Plough them in 10inches deep and they will come
- Location
- Stratford on Avon
We never had any success ploughing beans under., probably fine if you have land which you can turn around and level of straight away and then get your pre em on. Some of us have to look at the ploughing for a week or so before we can think about venturing back to level the ground
Nowt worse than combining beans on ploughing full of knot grass and other poliginums
But we do get on well with working the ground in Sept when hopefully the ground is drier and then drilling straight in when we feel the time is right for drilling
Nowt worse than combining beans on ploughing full of knot grass and other poliginums
But we do get on well with working the ground in Sept when hopefully the ground is drier and then drilling straight in when we feel the time is right for drilling
- Location
- Cirencester
Maybe on Fen soil, ploughed a load in here 7"deep on some clay soil, a few came up but never made a crop
Not fen. Skirt land, medium. I wouldn’t aim for 10, prefer 8 but that’s never a problem.
- Location
- S. Staffs
- Location
- Cirencester
I think mine went over like plasticine and am pretty sure the reason why they never took, ironically the field name is "Bean Field" lol
- Location
- Berkshire
These are some of mine drilled 18th Oct around 75-100 mm deep, I wouldn’t drill much earlier but in the past on heavier soils used to drill them two weeks earlier
BG is the problem drilling earlier as it’s too warm for the Kerb and now Crawlers gone…
BG is the problem drilling earlier as it’s too warm for the Kerb and now Crawlers gone…
How late can you plant winter beans? got some tundra home saved seed, and some land that has just been stubble turnips and been grazed off by the ewes. It’s far too wet to do anything yet. it’s either winter beans or spring barley, but would quite like the break crop
- Location
- Berkshire
Ok into March with Tundras
This is what I do every year with the Mzuri. Minimum of 4 inches deep, usually more. Usually come through 16-20 days later depending on conditions, heavy land round Halesworth. Gives time for them to get away from rooks. Try and catch them with glyphosate just before emergence, sometimes during emergence as long as not too many have their leaves unfolded.
- Location
- Dorset/Wilts
What's the minimum established plants/sq metre for winter beans. F-ing rooks won't leave alone
- Location
- Cirencester
17th Oct drilled, picture taken 25th Nov, put in with a Vaddy
Tractor Boy
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- Location
- Suffolk
Last two years I’ve planted Wizard in April with a jd750 because it was too wet in October. Not huge yields but both years between 3-4 t/ha. The only problem was they were only harvested around 20th September both years at around 18%mc as they just weren’t drying any more in the field.