BROAD BEANS
A USEFUL CROP. Broad beans make a very hardy and useful crop, which likes similar soil conditions to green peas, and when well grown is very productive. To get early supplies a row should be sown in the autumn, and this should be followed by another sown as soon as soil conditions are suitable in the spring, to be followed by others at intervals of a month if a succession is desired. They are sown in flat drills about six inches' wide and two deep, the seeds being placed at three inch intervals along each side of the drill. They are covered and the soil is firmed, the surface soil dusted with lime and super. Broad beans are not attacked by birds, but black aphis is troublesome. By pinching out the tops of the plants when four or five lots of pods have set, the aphis is also removed, for it does not attack the old foliage. Varieties to sow are Early Longpod and Green Windsor.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 November 1939, Page 3
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