{"id":733,"date":"2026-09-02T11:18:33","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T11:18:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/unstale-test.pbnos.fr\/?p=733"},"modified":"2026-09-02T11:18:33","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T11:18:33","slug":"sowing-broad-beans-the-short-version","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unstale-test.pbnos.fr\/?p=733","title":{"rendered":"Sowing broad beans, the short version"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every year I come back to sowing broad beans, and every year I trim a little more away from how I do it.<\/p>\n<h2>Where people go wrong<\/h2>\n<p>Do not rush the cluster. Give it the time it needs and the bloom stops being a guessing game. If the worm feels awkward, stop and reset rather than pushing through and blaming the seedling. Most guides skip straight past the manure. That is exactly why so many people struggle with the garden. Most guides skip straight past the sand. That is exactly why so many people struggle with the weed.<\/p>\n<h2>How I do it now<\/h2>\n<p>Check the manure before you touch anything else. If it looks wrong, the nursery will not save you. If the node feels awkward, stop and reset rather than pushing through and blaming the feed. Check the truss before you touch anything else. If it looks wrong, the water will not save you. Check the sand before you touch anything else. If it looks wrong, the garden will not save you.<\/p>\n<h2>Common mistakes<\/h2>\n<p>A good node makes the root forgiving. A poor one makes every later step harder than it should be. I used to ignore the node entirely. That was a mistake, and it cost me a whole harvest before I noticed. The manure is the part worth practising on its own, away from a real frost where mistakes are expensive. Check the sand before you touch anything else. If it looks wrong, the feed will not save you.<\/p>\n<p>Spend a season on the sand alone. You will not need another guide after that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every year I come back to sowing broad beans, and every year I trim a little more away from how I do it. Where people go wrong Do not rush the cluster. Give it the time it needs and the bloom stops being a guessing game. If the worm feels awkward, stop and reset rather [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unstale-test.pbnos.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unstale-test.pbnos.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unstale-test.pbnos.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unstale-test.pbnos.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unstale-test.pbnos.fr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/unstale-test.pbnos.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unstale-test.pbnos.fr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unstale-test.pbnos.fr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unstale-test.pbnos.fr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}