Which broad bean?

I normally grow aquadulce over winter for an early crop then follow with something else as I only have a half plot.
However, I would like to grow a second spring crop next year. The first crop was good but risky if we have a bad winter and we have to share them now with my grandson who really couldn't get enough of them. In fact he loves anything green -my peas are demolished raw or cooked - interesting for a child of 17 months!
So can anyone recommend another type to sow in the spring. Flavour is the most important criteria please 

Elaine

I'm not convinced, on my heavy clay soil, that Aquadulce is worth growing as an over winter crop ... it fairs badly in wet winters.  So I sow it, in 9cm pots, in January and plant out early in the year.  Perhaps not such an early crop as if I sowed in the Autumn, but no huge gaps between the few surviving plants either!

I then grow Masterpiece Green Longpod and Imperial Green Longpod.

Perhaps on exposed sites a dwarf variety would be better - such as The Sutton - it does my back in stooping down to harvest dwarf varieties though ...

Just doing a Google of varieties that are recommended for Flavour that brings up:

Masterpiece Green Longpod
Bunyard’s Exhibition
Optica
Witkiem Manita

I agree wizzard survives wind snow and ice much better and higher yeld ow.  I don't bother with later ones as there are still loads in the freezer.

I have no doubt that overwintering is a risky job.  last year I had about 5% gaps which I plugged with root trainer grown later sowing.  I did not think this so bad.  This is about the best I've ever had.  I am also convinced that the major problems are caused by sowing too early in a mild year and then a layer of snow on leggy plants in february.  Last year was mild and I sowed the first week in November.  My plants were about two inches above ground in february at the cold time and got through OK.

The yield from Aquadulce is ver impressive and on a relatively small space we had enough when they were fresh and have enough in the freezer to last a while.

Getting the early beans out just a week or two earlier than would otherwise be the case is so valuable in a successional planting scheme.  I followed with leeks and peas both of which got a good start being plant out late June.

I will also be doing Wizard but also as a green manure

My neighbour grew them last year (the seed's from him) and they got to nearly 6ft tall in Spring. I don't think he was expecting that and the winds blew them over. Till then they did look stunning and there were very few gaps. It was very mild here over winter.

Six feet! My goodness. I wasn't expecting that either. That makes a difference as to where I sow them. I might try them in a block, as well, as recommended on other threads for Wizard, to give them more of a fighting chance against wind. Thanks for the info. Very useful. If there's any further advice you can give, I'd welcome it. Mr. Snoop loves broad beans, and if they look "stunning", all the better.

Thanks, Surbie. We never have enough broad beans as I never seem to succeed at growing them. I've told Mr Snoop that if we don't get a reasonable harvest this year, I'm just going to give up. I'm hoping that growing them in blocks will be the answer.