{"id":26183,"date":"2020-07-19T13:59:57","date_gmt":"2020-07-19T11:59:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?p=26183"},"modified":"2020-07-19T13:59:59","modified_gmt":"2020-07-19T11:59:59","slug":"broad-bean-mix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?p=26183","title":{"rendered":"Broad Bean Mix"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Broad beans (favas \/ bondeb\u00f8nner) will easily cross with other varieties that are growing nearby.\u00a0 In order to keep a variety pure, you need to isolate them physically. I like to have different varieties with different coloured flowers and bean colour in additon to maintaining early yielding varieties such as Express. I’ve found that I can plant different forms close together and if I save separately beans with different colour and bean size and mark for saving plants with particularly nice flower colours, then I can maintain a good mix in the same place. The flower forms below are all growing within a few metres in the V\u00e6res Venner community garden. They were grown from the mix of beans saved at the same place in 2018 (first picture). I don’t offer the different forms as named varieties, but as a mix or composite “V\u00e6res Venner Mix” so that others can also select for separate forms! Bumble bees were all over the flowers when I was there!<\/p>\n