Vegetables
Broad Bean 'Bunyards Exhibition'
Vicia faba
Bunyards Exhibition is a well known and popular broad bean. For over 100 years gardeners have been enjoying up to eight white seeded beans per pod from this heavy cropper. Can be sown in the Autumn and protected during Winter for an early Spring crop.
- Position
- Full Sun
- Height
- 1.3m
- Spread
- 30cm
Growing calendar
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Sow indoors
Sow outdoors
Harvest
Sowing & growing
Sow inside Nov or Feb-Mar in either pots or seed trays, Sow 5cm deep. Sow direct Mar-Apr in rows or double rows, 23cm apart and between rows. Water well. Broad beans like full sun, protected from winds in rich, fertile soil. Stake stems as they grow.
Aftercare
For Autumn sowing raise in modules in an unheated greenhouse.
Gallery
Ref. SEB026