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Any ideas what to start growing in the greenhouse for a novice cant wait to start !! It depends on what you want to grow-but it is still relatively early Heated or unheated? unheated veg etc Broad beans can be started-for planting out in a few weeks

Follow Monty Don's video advice on using the principals of crop rotation to benefit brassicas. Monty clears away broad beans to plant out broccoli in the vegetable patch at Berryfields.summerMore advice on growing vegetablesGrow courgettes video

hi I have never growing veg before i am going to chance it i was thinking of the likes of broad beans ect but will have to be growing in pots on bamboo is that a good idea ground space is nill thankyou Broad beans don't need canes.  They don't climb

, nibbling U-shaped notches out of the edges.Pick off the beetles by hand and destroy.broad beans, peassummer, autumn, winterMore advice on growing peas and beansKeeping capsid bugs away from beans.Watch Monty's video demonstration on sowing pea seeds

as he was to old/sick to do it on his own, he has broad beans, he topped the flowers at a certain point to stopblack fly, it seems allour plotters do.I'm going for the mix grow,putting corn and sunflowers next to them, should help each of the other

happened so quickly and also surely the outer shell would remain?? Still convinced its worms?? Mange-tout and broad beans are hardier veg. French beans need warmth and moisture to germinate and grow properly-if they don't get it the beans will just rot way

Spot the odd one out! One of my broad beans has come up yellow rather than green. I'll grow it on to see what becomes of it but has anyone else ever had this happen?     The odd seed of anything can do this - it's a genetic mutation and may mean

Hi Kate ,That's what gardening is all about,Who care's more than the gardener,Oldchippy. Hi Kate ,I have also planted my first Broad Beans out in the veg garden I am trying to create, no idea what I am doing so have also planted some in degradable

. Broad beans are not usually grown in this area but the plants seem to be growing and producing well in temperatures exceeding 90F (32C) and as yet we haven't experienced any pest or disease problems although the runner beans growing alongside them have

think , i just find them fiddly for potting on later. Sweet peas, beans can go straight into ground, pot etc. I have planted some sweet peas in toilet rolls (aswell as normal pots) will see how they go. I do runner beans and broad beans