Week 18 - Bed EX8 Planting

The broad beans that were sown in this bed have sprouted, but the rooks (large crow) have eaten quite a number of the seeds by carefully tugging on the emerging leaves until the seed comes out of the ground. They seem to love the plump seed and leave the rest of the plant on the ground as a sign of their ingenuity! So we resowed more than half of the broad bean seeds with the same variety and surrounded the bed with a branches to keep the birds out.