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Bean, Broad Windsor Bush Seeds
Vicia faba
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Boost your garden with Bean, Broad Windsor Bush Seeds.
These seeds are perfect for producing healthy and nutritious beans at home. Broad Windsor beans are prolific yielders. Plants produce long 15-20 cm (6-8") pods with 4-6 large, flat beans inside. This variety is also tolerant of frost and has fragrant flowers.
- SKU: 143657
- Common Name: Bean
- Botanical Name: Vicia faba
Growing Information
Safe
for Bees
Grows
Best In:
Full Sun
Days to
Germination:
6 - 14 days
Water
Needs:
Average 2.5-5 cm (1-2 in.) per week
Days to
Maturity:
60 - 70 days
Growing Height:
45-60 cm (18-23 in)
Key Features
- Plant Type: Vegetable
- Plant Lifecycle: Annual (plant every year)
- Seed Type: Heirloom
- Fill Weight (grams): 18 g
- Approximate Seed Count: 10-14
- Characteristics: Preserving variety
- Planting Method: Direct Sow
- Colour: Green
- Water Needs: Average 2.5-5 cm (1-2 in.) per week
- Landscape Use: Edible Garden
- Growth Habit: Bush
- Tolerance: Frost
- Companion Planting:
Plant near beets, corn, lovage, naturtiums, rosemary, squash, strawberries, sunflowers
- Flavour: Meaty and hearty
- Preparation Ideas: Remove beans from pods and rinse with water. Boil beans in water just until tender and drain. Fry desired amount of chopped bacon until browned. For enhanced taste, add chopped onion and garlic. Add beans to the bacon mixutre and fry for 5 minutes to blend flavors, stirring frequently.
Instructions
Beans are a warm season crop and seeds should be sown directly into the garden when the soil is warm and all danger of frost is past. Optimum soil temperature (not air temperature) should be 15-29°C (59-84°F) for seeds to germinate. Planting at a lower temperature will delay germination. Space seeds and plant to the depth indicated below. Press seeds into the soil to ensure good contact and cover with 1.3 cm (1/2 in.) of soil. After planting, water the seeds with a gentle mist or shower. It is critical to keep the soil consistently moist, but not soggy during germination. When your seedlings reach a height of a few centimetres (inches) and have developed 2 or 3 pairs of leaves, it is important to thin them out, according to the plant spacing indicated below. Do not allow the soil to become dry, as young plants have underdeveloped roots and can quickly dehydrate, particularly in windy conditions.
- Planting Depth: 2.5 cm (1in.)
- Seed Spacing: Sow beans seeds roughly 10 cm (4 in.) apart in rows, keeping rows approximately 90 cm (36 in.) apart.
- Plant Spacing: 15 cm (6 in.)
- Instructions for Nutrient Care: Apply SUPERThrive once per week. Soak in solution of 1/4 tsp per gal for 15 min. or longer depending on size and type.
Suggestions
Growing Suggestions:
- Keep picking regularly to ensure continuous production.
- Too many beans maturing at one time? Try sowing 1/2 or 1/3 of a row one or two weeks apart to extend the harvesting of fresh flavorful beans.
- Avoid working among plants while the foliage is damp or wet as this can encourage and spread fungal and bacterial diseases such as powdery mildew, blight, rust, etc.
- When weeding, hoe gently because beans are shallow-rooted. Mulch plants only after thinning.
- Avoid fertilizing with nitrogen, which results in a surplus of foliage and low, delayed pod growth.
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Overall rating: 4.5 / 5 from 8 reviews.
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Good quality seeds
"The seeds are of a good size for planting with no broken outer shells or damaged"
Great germination
"The seeds were in excellent condition, so I sowed some for over winter and they all germinated and grew so well I’ve had to pinch them out twice 👍"
grew great
"grew great"
Super!
"Super!"
100% germinate
"First year plant broad bean. I started the seeds indoor in February in Vancouver and will harvest at the end of June. Healthy plants until May, then aphid attack them, but not a severe damage. I am grateful about this purchase and satisfied with the seeds."
Less than 5 percent
"I bought 10 packs containing approximately 120 seed, soaked then for about 20 hours, planted them. After six weeks I only got 7 plants."
A family staple
"We have harvested McKenzie Broad Windsor's for about 10 years. They are a good producer, easy to grow and hardy. I grow them with 3 foot square supports of welded re-bar as they tend to fall over when reaching maturity (our plants grow about four feet tall). They are great in soups and are easily frozen or dried. The plants are subject to bacterial brown spot in wet climates, but in bad years we simply harvest earlier before the beans are affected."
