Winter Beans

[Laggard]

Never grown them before, recovering OSR grower. Which is a good winter variety and what seed rate if ploughing or Claydon drilled please? Any other advice welcome.

 

[ollie989898]

Claydon them in. Need to keep it cheap.

 

[Bigjon44]

You'll be a recovering bean grower too!!

 

[Two Tone]

Vesper or Wizzard.
Beans are a ‘Wish you’ crop.
I’m a recovering Winter Linseed addict/grower heading for AB6, but can’t do so for 12 months, so will also be growing Winter Beans, just for the one year.

Just wondering what people s thoughts are for Winter Oats as an alternative?
I’m a Weaving GD Direct drill user and slightly worried about Winter beans.

 

[Fish]

Vesper or Wizzard.
Beans are a ‘Wish you’ crop.
I’m a recovering Winter Linseed addict/grower heading for AB6, but can’t do so for 12 months, so will also be growing Winter Beans, just for the one year.

Just wondering what people s thoughts are for Winter Oats as an alternative?
I’m a Weaving GD Direct drill user and slightly worried about Winter beans.

In my experience, disc drills work 50% of the time re beans if you have clay.
always use the old horsch co now.

 

[Barleymow]

Plough them in

 

[benny6910]

200kg/ha minimum if drilling,250 minimum if ploughing in. If you’ve got half decent land and no trash or chopped straw I’d claydon or sumo dts them.

 

[BRBX]

Finished cutting them today best block was DD in December into frozen ground 4t/ha

 

[Clive]

Claydon drills grow mega bean crops - never bettered a crop we grew here once with an early SR

 

[Hindsight]

Claydon drills grow mega bean crops - never bettered a crop we grew here once with an early SR

Never bettered is a phrase commonly associated with growing Winter Beans! I noted you have since grown them established with Avatar? Have you had any in 2023 and if so how did they fare with a true no till scenario. Pretty awful where I go.

 

[Magnus Oyke]

You'll need to get the seed bed right, not for the beans, but for the pre em to work, you only get one shot at weed control

 

[tw15]

Winter beans coming off @4 .5 t ha . December drilled with sumo drill the nice neighbour that used to drill with his claydon for us sold it ( Bugger ) .

 

[Two Tone]

I’m thinking that rather than a disc drill, a Horsch with Metcalfe points is the best way to go (if like me, you have no Claydon) and I know where there is one I could use.

 

[chaffcutter]

Don’t think we have drilled beans with the Avatar, usually the Horsch tine drill with Borgault coulters iirc

 

[Tompkins]

Claydon (or similar) would be my first choice for beans, followed by Sprinter.
I've always kept seed rate high, crop seems to pod further from the ground then so you don't miss any when combining.
This year's did 4.5t/ha which considering the growing season, I'm happy with. Normal years have been 5t/ha+

 

[Cropper]

Claydon drills grow mega bean crops - never bettered a crop we grew here once with an early SR

Just finished cutting our Claydon drilled beans - 2.0T/ha in the last field! Not what I’d call mega.

 

[bobk]

You'll need to get the seed bed right, not for the beans, but for the pre em to work, you only get one shot at weed control

Which is ?

 

[snarling bee]

Vincent are a good variety compared with Tundra. Far less Choc Spot, higher yield.
We do max till and then tine drill. Use more seed and go earlier than the 'traditional' way.

 

[Clive]

Never bettered is a phrase commonly associated with growing Winter Beans! I noted you have since grown them established with Avatar? Have you had any in 2023 and if so how did they fare with a true no till scenario. Pretty awful where I go.

no - beans not great on a disc drill really - we usually use our converted CO tine drill for beans - it’s not unlike a Claydon really

 

[bobk]

I'm worried about getting my combine dirty