Broad beans are considered one of the easiest vegetables to grow and one of the best crops to try if you want to start a small vegetable garden in the new year.

Adult beetles lay eggs on broad bean pods in early summer. After hatching, the grubs bore into the developing seeds but are too small to be noticed in beans picked for eating.

How to sow broad bean seeds BROAD beans are easy to grow from seed and can be sown straight into the ground or under cover, depending on the season.

Broad beans are often grown from seeds in autumn to secure an early harvest at the start of summer, though this versatile vegetable will do just as well in the garden when sown in winter.

Soak the dried broad beans in cold water overnight, then drain. The next day, put the soaked beans and the wild fennel (or the soaked fennel seeds) into a pan, add enough water to cover, and bring ...

It is surprising that the structure and germination of this seed, so extensively used in elementary botanical teaching, should be so frequently misunderstood by teachers and wrongly described in ...

I’ve also planted some broad bean seeds directly into my vegetable patch and look forward to eating them with melted butter and black pepper.

How we test broad beans We sowed our broad bean seeds in modules in the greenhouse in March and planted out our seedlings in early May. We harvested beans weekly during July and August, weighing and ...

During June, July and August when most of the garden is in hibernation mode, broad beans suddenly become a top seller on the seed stand or as punnets of six in the garden centre. Broadbeans are a ...