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Old 20-01-2008, 06:10 PM posted to uk.rec.gardening
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Default Sowing broad beans

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| On 20 Jan, 08:58, "Robert \(Plymouth\)"
| remove my other hobby to reply
| wrote:
| Push them in the ground and they will come up, there is no right way up...
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| I don't know since when I do that and why I've started, but all 'flat'
| seeds I sow them on their side thinking that they won't rot as much as
| if they were lying flat. I do this with pumpkins too. But I'm sure it
| doesn't make any difference ;o)

It's not so much the position of the beans, as the ... er ....

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Nick Maclaren.
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