{"id":31011,"date":"2023-04-10T12:00:07","date_gmt":"2023-04-10T10:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?p=31011"},"modified":"2023-04-10T12:00:08","modified_gmt":"2023-04-10T10:00:08","slug":"selecting-for-a-local-early-broad-bean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?p=31011","title":{"rendered":"Selecting for a local early broad bean"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I sowed broad (fava) bean \/ bondeb\u00f8nner (Vicia faba) seed indoors yesterday as there&#8217;s still snow where I&#8217;d planned to put them outside. In addition to my late broad bean grex with a mix of colours, I thought it would also be worthwhile to start developing a local early variety which could also potentially be useful in more marginal areas such as North Norway and mountain areas. I&#8217;m starting with 4 early varieties, two from IPK Gatersleben: 1) Expresse Zeer Vroege Witkiem (meaning &#8220;very early white germ (seed)&#8221; (FAB424), Express (FAB 7066), my own selection of the commercial variety Express which I&#8217;ve grown as my early sort for some years and another purportedly early variety De Monica from Chiltern Seeds. I&#8217;ll select mainly for earliness and seed size.<br \/><br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-31012 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/P1077399.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"548\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/P1077399.jpg 1000w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/P1077399-300x164.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/P1077399-768x421.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/P1077399-640x351.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><br \/><br \/><br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I sowed broad (fava) bean \/ bondeb\u00f8nner (Vicia faba) seed indoors yesterday as there&#8217;s still snow where I&#8217;d planned to put them outside. In addition to my late [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[415],"tags":[270,4803,4802,271,3407,4805,4804,416],"class_list":["post-31011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beans","tag-broad-bean","tag-de-monica","tag-express","tag-fava-bean","tag-ipk-gatersleben","tag-selection","tag-vegetable-breeding","tag-vicia-faba"],"views":2499,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31011"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31011\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31013,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31011\/revisions\/31013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}