Broad Beans

Description: Vegetables / Vicia faba is a species of bean native to north Africa and southwest Asia. The pods and green or white ... more

Broad Beans ... coloured beans, delicious fresh or frozen, and the young shoot tips are also useful as an alternative to spinach.

Newest Review: ... you can enjoy plenty of this welcome crop in the late spring and early summer! +++ How to Grow Organic Broad Beans +++ Sow: ... more

... Directly in the ground between November and March. Avoid sowing in the colder months if your climate is harsh. Wait until a first planting is well established before a second planting for an extended harvest. Harvest: From May to August. For the best flavour, pick when the beans can be felt through the pod, but before they get too large. Broad Beans appreciate a well drained, sheltered site. When the pods first appear, pinch out the growing tip of the plant to reduce the risk of a black bean aphid attack. Black be...more

Price Comparison for Broad Beans

	Vegetable Sign Broad Beans 28cm high x 11cm wide.Made in cast iron with bronze and brass fin ... Last Update 21.11.2009 05:52	£ 4.99
	KINGS SEEDS: BROAD BEAN MASTERPIECE GREEN Contains 40 seeds. Sew from Apr , harvest from Jul. Full instruct ... Last Update 21.11.2009 05:52	£ 1.45
	KINGS SEEDS: BROAD BEAN WINDSOR GREEN Contains 40 seeds. Sew from Feb , harvest from Jun. Full instruct ... Last Update 21.11.2009 05:52	£ 1.40
	Suttons Bean (Broad) Seeds - Giant ExhibitionLongpod Code: SUT194 ... Pods of good length and beans of delicious flavour. Very successf ... Last Update 21.11.2009 05:52	£ 2.45
	SUTTONS SEEDS: Broad Bean Giant ExhibitionLongpod Seeds (40 seeds ... Pods of good length and beans of delicious flavour. Very successf ... Last Update 21.11.2009 05:52	£ 2.45

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Broad Beans: Very welcome early crop (180 words)
by - written on 27/10/09 (Very useful, 3 readings)
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Organic Broad Beans --------------------------- Home grown organic broad beans have it all. They arrive early in the season, they are delicious, far better than staler store bought broad beans, and they are easy to grow. If you like them then be sure to allow lots of space so you can enjoy plenty of this welcome crop in the late spring and early summer! +++ How to Grow Organic Broad Beans +++ Sow: Directly in the ground between November and March. Avoid sowing in the colder months if your climate is harsh. Wait until a first planting is well established before a second planting for an extended harvest. Harvest: From May to ... Read the complete review

Bean Me Up Scotty. (769 words)
by - written on 21/04/09 (Very useful, 202 readings)
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I have to admit that I am one of the BBC Gardeners world website fans ! The Other Half will frequently log on to the site in search of trustworthy advice. We have planted broad beans for a few years now and have had varying degrees of success with them. This year we decided rather than pay that expensive visit to the garden centre and buy the young fleshy broad bean plants to transplant straight into the soil that we would experiment and plant the beans directly into the soil as someone on the website had suggested. Maybe many of you have already trialled this method and have had success but we were hedging our bets on the outcome. So, a while ago the ... Read the complete review

Broad Beans: These beans are broad . (603 words)
by - written on 25/02/09 (Very useful, 140 readings)
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have just planted my broad beans in the garden. They are the variety Sutton. This variety is a dwarf bean. Sow the beans in little pots at the end of feb/ beginning of March and put them in the green house to give them a good start. You casn sow them straight intomthe garden if you prefere .It is possible to sow these in October for earlier cropping too . I like to get my broad beans started in pots it helps them get started with out the slugs/snails damaging them. (Living on chalky soil and growing organically I do get a lot of snails) When my plants are about 3 inches high with several leaves on. I shall transfer them to the ... Read the complete review