What happened to your bean seeds? Here are some possibilities.

Cold damage can happen to frost-tender outdoor plants as well. In mild cases, some of the outer leaves may turn black and ...
Farmers Weekly

Poor germination and stem nematode hit field bean seed

Germination quality of field beans is worse than usual this year, according to latest results from NIAB. Just 25% of samples tested at the Cambridge-based lab had germination above 80%, and around 60% ...
Nature

Germination of the Broad Bean Seed

MR. HEBER SMITH'S observations on the relation of the micropyle to the radicle in the seed of Vicia faba (NATURE, February 4, p. 400) are quite correct. It is surprising that the structure and ...
Penn Live

Saving purple hyacinth bean seeds

Q: We have two beautiful hyacinth bean plants in our yard and would like to know how to get more next year. Can the seeds be saved and replanted for next spring? If so, how do you go about it? A: ...
Lubbock Avalanche-Journal

Gardening for You: Fabulous fava beans

Fava beans are a cool-season, fast-growing annual and the only cold-hardy bean. As fava beans are cold hardy, seed can be sown in the garden now; fava beans can also be a fall-planted crop that will ...