First ever home grown broad bean

[broadway]

Just picked a couple of pods to try them, very nice

[Dorothy rouse]

Gosh, they are early, lucky you, mine are flowering, looking forward to first crop, need some sun.

[BertieFox]

Very early crop! There is a field full of field beans near us which were sown in the autumn and they are yet to produce pods. Our own spring sown broad beans are only now setting pods. I think it has been a good year for this crop given the mild winter and the cool spring, as broad beans don't like hot and dry weather.

Certainly one of my favourite crops, and I wish you well with a bumper crop!

[Jeanied]

Go Danny! I looove broadies

[Greenleaves]

Extremely early, so lets hope all of us who like broadbeans have a good crop. Love them young in salads

[Bren In Pots]

Congrats on your early beans mine are just coming in to flower so a bit of a wait for me yet.

[Mr Gardener]

I've got a few pods growing on mine... frustratingly they'd been flowering for months with nothing much doing but I notice a few bees sniffing around and it looks like they've done their job!

[mudpies]

Well done you- it's a great feeling when that work begins to pay off isn't it- enjoy, let's hope it's the taste of things to come!

[chilli_grower]

mine are full of flowers,but only around 16 inches tall, does that sound about right?

[broadway]

Thanks all

I planted a small bed last winter therefore had a few to pick early.

Simple, worth while, makes going to work a little easier after eating a bit of GYO!

[mudpies]

Absolutely! A bit of how life should be in the midst of all the nonsense!

[Jonnyt]

Do you eat the pods aswell?


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[Ja9]

Think mine should be big enough to eat next weekend as they have over wintered well as it's been so mild.
Broadway there's nothing like eating your home grown produce.not just the sheer pride that you have produced it but the fact that it's so fresh and tasty. Have you grown your own sweet corn ..some things you will just never buy from the shops again!
My son always eats them straight off the plants whole.

[Jardiniere]

been eating mine too - loads of enormous ones! Sown in November.

[Chris172]

Hi just beginning to get some height and cannot wait to get fresh beans to make a lovely garlic and bb humus with some chicken to kick start the broad bean fest off.

Cannot get enough of them fresh and the shop bought ones are rubbish over grown tough and not what you would just open at the plot on an early morning for a tasty mouthfull

Happy gardening


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