Brownfingers wrote in
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My packets of broad beans say plant October or January. Why can't I
plant now? The weathers so odd anyway and broad beans can't read a
calendar.
My stored potato's are sprouting! That's never happened before till
the spring.

I have only been gardening for 2 years and this is the third time I
have sown broad beans in autumn.
The variety I have stayed with is Aquadulce Claudia and they have not let
me down despite sub zero temperatures sometimes.
Last year I bought too many(oops!) and sowed them in 2 week periods from
early Nov. to late Dec. and then the rest at end of Jan., they all came
through but the Dec and Jan took a long time to show.
The ones sown in Nov were a couple of weeks ahead of the rest when I
harvested them so this year I sowed the lot on 5th Nov.

Your potato situation seems weird.
I have caterpillers on my cabbages rigt now....weird too eh?
I pruned my raspberries last week and found hundres of ladybirds hiding
under fallen leaves where last year I saw just a couple.

Anyway I wish you luck with the broad beans, I'm sure they will do it
for you whenever you decide to put 'em in.

Part_No