[themoog]

I've grown broad beans for the first time this year and I've had a good crop.

My 4 year old has finally been persuaded to try them and has decided that they're delicious . Brilliant, except that this epiphany has come at the end of the crop and we picked the last ones today.

Is it possible to get a second late crop if I sow again now, in a similar way to peas? Sorry if this is a dense question, but I thought that it was worth a shot .

[Kleftiwallah]

My veggie growing 'bible' tells me Feb' to June, so go on and give a few seeds a try

No question is ever 'dense' an answer you cannot understand is 'dense' in that the reply wasn't phrased correctly !    Cheers,   Tony.

Cheers,   Tony.

[Muddylou]

I sowed some sugar snap peas this afternoon, I'm not sure either if its too late but I wish us both the best of luck. 

[Paul Plots]

If you have seeds and space to spare: Bung'em in & see. 

Who can tell in this mad, mixed-up, muddled climate. 

[themoog]

Right-ho, I'll give it a whirl .

Why he couldn't have made this discovery when I was dishing out beans to the neighbours 3 weeks ago, I do not know .

First broccoli harvested today, as well as the broad beans and roasted home-grown spuds with roasted chicken. It's days like this when I remember why the hard work is worth it!

[sunshineband]

Generally broad beans aren't sown now, but you could try cutting them down as they will send up new growth that will flower.

Be quicker than sown from seed too 

[jazzbyrd]

To the Moog....
make the freezer your friend

Jazz

[themoog]

I freeze many things and now have a freezer in the garage too to accomodate allotment gluts, but frozen broad beans are just too much like those horrible, grey, powdery, bullet-like monstrosities of my childhood - yuck . Better to just savour the season, in my opinion .

When you say 'cut them back', how far do you mean?

[jolly jen]

i done mine three weeks ago ,but there is still time,nothing wrong with trying it out if you feel like it

[sunshineband]

Cutting them bck to about six inches gives you the chance to see the new shoots coming from the side of the plant, from the very base.

A good feed and water and they should be away, and flower buds are usually seen as soon as the shoots start to grow too 

[themoog]

Thanks for that sunshineband, saves me grubbing up and starting again  .

[sunshineband]

Best of luck --- let us know how it goes 

[themoog]

Trimmed them this morning. I notice that someone else on the board is doing the same thing and has encouraging shoots starting.

Fingers crossed  .

[themoog]

Update - side shoots are sprouting and flowers have been spotted. Looking promising  .

<does happy little dance to the gardening gods>

[Old Tom]

Well done Moog. I remember you when you were on "Will o the Wisp".