Broad bean "Hangdown grünkernig", 50 g, Baltic Agro
Seller: ALLIKASILM
About this product
Broad bean "Hangdown Gruenkernig" (Vicia faba) — a very productive mid-early variety. Each pod usually holds 4–5 medium green seeds, and it is the green seed that makes it good in the kitchen: picked young it is sweet and tender, left to ripen it gives a rich, nutty stew.
The plant grows up to 120 cm on a strong upright stem. Broad beans are hardy and cope with our spring: they can be sown as early as April, while other legumes are still waiting for warmth.
The pack holds 50 g of seed — not a sample, but a proper row. Producer Baltic Agro, Estonia.
Specifications
- Species: Vicia faba — broad bean
- Variety: "Hangdown Gruenkernig" — green-seeded
- Maturity: mid-early
- Per pod: usually 4–5 seeds
- Height: up to 120 cm
- Producer: Baltic Agro (Estonia)
- Pack: 50 g
- Sowing: April — May outdoors, 5–6 cm deep
- Site: sunny, moist fertile soil
Advice from our agronomist
Sow early. In April, as soon as the ground allows. Broad beans take a light frost, and an early sowing keeps them ahead of blackfly: a late sowing coincides with the peak of that pest.
Spacing. 5–6 cm deep, 10–15 cm apart in the row, 40–50 cm between rows. In a crowded row the lower pods get no light.
Pinch the tips. When the plant is about a metre tall and the lower pods have set, pinch out the tips: it pushes energy into the pods and removes the sweetest spot for blackfly.
Support. On a windy site run string along both sides of the row — a tall stem snaps under the weight of the crop.
No nitrogen needed. Broad beans fix their own. After harvest cut the haulm and leave the roots in the soil.
Codes and attributes
| Warehouse code | 5593 |
|---|---|
| Barcode | 4744360013442 |
| Category | Broad beans & beans |
Delivery and timing
- Parcel locker — €2.99–3.99, free from 59,00 €
- Courier to the door — €7.99–8.99, free from 99,00 €
- Dispatched within 2 working days