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Janet Baraclough wrote:
david taylor wrote:

Grow broad beans for the pods rather than seeds. This breaks with
tradition
gives you a delicious vegetable with no problems of hardiness.

I've never encountered any hardiness problems at all in Scotland with
broad beans sown direct in the garden from March onwards. No need to
wait till frost is over. Easy, prolific crop. We eat the beans (seeds)
not the pods.

You weren't planting them in 1963, then :-)

I find it surprising that an originally warm-climate plant has been
bred to become not just cold-tolerate but cold-dependent, but it is
so. The broad beans we grow (unlike "el ful" varieties) are among
the half-dozen most cold-adapted vegetables. If you can't grow them,
you are probably limited to kale or nothing.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.