A costly 48 hrs...

[freewheat]

Hobby, how do your fabas look overall? Mine took/are taking an age and a half to emerge. Cold soil? Large seed? Did you see the same thing? What is there looks great, but lots are still just poking or just below the surface yet.

Three weeks today.

[ado089]

My faba are the same. I think they sucked an inch of soil moisture just to germinate. Best place on the field is where we've been driving on them all spring near the yard.

[freewheat]

hmmm. Mine are not moisture starved at all, just S L O W!

Funny little plant when they emerge. Just kind of an immediate cluster of leaves, hey?

[hobbyfrmr]

First time for me so i know very little. Yes a cluster of leaves. I planted on beach sand in may. I went 4 inches deep with half worn down spikes so the boots on seeder would leave the seeds in the trench. Then heavy harrowed.
10 days later i put sweeps on the cultivator, then went back and cultivated 2 inches deep. Then I left it. It will be what it is. On this stuff i am hoping for s crop to harvest the seed for plowdowns.
Phase 2 happened last week, i planted them on definite plowdown land, 2 inches deep. I waited 6 days and started to pass the rodweeder. Then.....the rodweeder brokedown, wheel bearing. So a full day of searching for obsolete bearings and a day of shipping and repair. Now the beans have made an upward sprout. So i am on my knees searching to see how much the damage will be.
Definitely the rodweeder will kill some, but only the weak ones!
I just realized I dont need a good partsman. I need an archeologist!
Next year, seed 25% heavier and an in h deeper.
Worst case scenario, it will all be plowdown. Best case scenario, i will have enough faba beans harvested to use for plowdown in the future.