Broad beans as green manure?

[stupot]

I planted out my broad beans in one bed yesterday and had a lot of left-over beans. I have bed lying bare next door and decided to plant the rest as green manure, to be dug in April-May. The logic being that they must be closely related to the Field Bean, which I've seen being sold as green manure, and that they're nitrogen-fixing. Anyone else tried this?

[cazsudz]

For the past two years I have dug in my broad bean plants after they have finished cropping and planted leeks straight in the same bed a couple of weeks later, Seems to have worked well so far so think your idea should be fine.

caz

[Two_Sheds]

I'm doing it this year because I have a ridiculous amount of seed to use up

[bluemoon]

I use field beans and you'd be hard pushed to tell the difference. You dig them in at about 18 inches tall, long before they flower, so I couldn't say for certain, but I've a sneaking suspicion that field beans are just broadies which haven't a very good flavour, but do have a certain vigour which the tastier broadies lack.