[chilli-pot]

1st year on lottie and eager to learn. Onion, garlic and potato all planted and growing well. Broad beans have been planted in toilet roll tubes and are now between 3 -10 inches tall. I have transplanted them, in their toilet rolls, into raised beds - 4 plants wide and 8 plants long (32 in total). I have read that they may need support.

How?

Do I put a cane at either end of the broad bean run with some twine across the top and more twine hanging down for the broad beans to grow up? (As in Munty's runner bean structure)

Any help/advice greatly received.....

[Adam]

You're going to have a lot of broad beans!

Broad bean plants will pretty much support themselves, except maybe if it gets really windy. If I were you I'd put a good stake (3 or 4 feet tall) at each corner of your block of bean plants and then tie some stout twine or similar all the way around the outside to make a sort of fence to keep them from falling outwards. They won't fall inwards, they'll be too bushy to do that.