Broad Beans I plant one per station with a plastic bottle cloche to protect the plant. These seem to provide protection from mice, and other pests, including the weevil, although these little brown insects need to be picked off if they start to serrate the leaves of the plant. Successive plantings of all legumes need to be well away from the previous one(s) or diseases spread from ageing plants to the new.Poached Egg Plants encourage predators of blackfly and help to keep this endemic pest at bay. Here is a great friend. Ladybirds and hoverflies are attracted by the poached egg plants. Saving the seeds of this legume is quite easy because they are so big. Broad Beans: Planting Guide Sow: Late Feb / Early March Depth: 4cm Between Plants: 22cm Between Rows: 22cm Harvest: June/July Dig This: dib in one per station. protect with plastic bottle hand weed around plants pinch out top if blackfly invade water if dry when pods growing Good Companions Poached Egg Plants Dislike Aliums: the onion family Varieties I like The Sutton. Jubilee Hysor Just poking through Click Walter to contact me URL http://www.digmyplot.co.uk İfebruary 2007