Broad beans aren’t the most efficient of vegetables. Each bean is so cocooned in the pod that once you’ve shelled them you only have about a quarter of the weight in shelled beans that you had in unshelled pods. My first harvest (and quite possibly the last as well) was 200g of pods, resulting in around 50g of beans. I don’t expect large harvests, because my beans are growing in containers. I also pinched the tips out of the beans before we went on holiday, to prevent blackfly taking up residence while we were gone.
The plants looked strong, though (they’re a bit wilty now the weather has warmed up), and the pods were good. Does this mean the bean booster had an effect? We won’t know for sure until I pull the plants up and look for nitrogen nodules on the roots.
Carrie wrote:
...on Thu, Jun 25 '09 (958 days ago)