Hey everyone, it's gardening with Ben
In today's episode, we're going to be planted our simply seed broad beans
Now, these are winter varieties. You need autumn or winter varieties. And these are super aqua-dulse ones, if that's how you're saying
I'm no good at saying these words. But yeah, these are the variety that I'm going to try
There's about 40 in here. The benefits of planting broad beans in the autumn and winter is that when they're ready to harvest
you won't have none of the black flies on them. They'll all be ready to harvest before the black fly start to appear
Because usually if you plant them in March time, you usually get inundated with blackfly all over them
So the reason why we plant them now is so that we don't get the black fly on them
And they'll be ready to harvest pretty early as well. So we're going to start these off in seed trays
You can either start them off in the ground or in seed trays
I tend to choose to plant them in seed trays first. is because obviously i'm down at an allotment and there's rats my squirrels so any bit of food
around in the wintertime they'll come and pinch it and especially when the shoots start coming up
the birds will eat the shoots off them as well so we going to start them off in seed trays till they a nice big height and then we plant them outdoors so this is the first video of planting them all in seed trays
first so make sure you give us a follow and stay tuned for when we're planting them outdoors so let's
get these planted in seed trays so these are the sort of seed trays that i'm going to be planted
away so that the roots are pretty deep and they can get growing so we're going to put a couple in
each sell and get them started so we've put all our seeds in our seed tray so we just need to cover them over
with compost now give them a good water put them in our shed and greenhouse and let them start growing
so i've just made a little sign for them as well put the day on them so that we know which variety
we've planted and hopefully they'll grow well and then we'll grow them again another year so we know
when we've planted them so let's move them into the greenhouse so we moved them into the greenhouse
So we just need to keep them watered and keep an eye on them. Ready for planting out when they're big enough
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