[Yana]

How do you freeze your broad beans? Do you Blanche them at all? I seem to be accumulating them and would like to freeze them but have never done this before.

[LeeR]

Mange tout, broad beans, over wintered onions, carrots, beetroot and spring onion 

[Thephoenix572]

Give home guard spuds (decent size), two French beans and cut some cut and come again lettuce

[allot2learn]

Harvested a dozen good sized Marfona 2nd early's. Really tasty. 

[Abbeyview]

How do you freeze your broad beans? Do you Blanche them at all? I seem to be accumulating them and would like to freeze them but have never done this before.
[OH has never blanched broad beans but does not keep them frozen too long all used well before Christmas /quote]

[Paul Plots]

Broadbeans - 1st lot this year.
Delicious!! 

[marcofez]

Harvested salad leaves, spring onions and radish, also strawberries for T! Yum, yum!!!

[yorkiegal]

Today was my first ever harvest! Some curly kale leaves which I've just fried up in a bit of butter and salt and it was lovely.

[wilbzfishing]

strawberries, rhubarb, spinach, lettuce, broadbeans, and pulled a garlic as needed to to make some baby food

[Yana]

Salad leaves,radishes, lettuce, broad beans, peas and strawbs.

[carlrmj]

Strawberries, rhubarb and lettuce

[Paul Plots]

Today was my first ever harvest! Some curly kale leaves which I've just fried up in a bit of butter and salt and it was lovely.

I can remember it well.... 1st harvest! A real buzz.

Good for you... I bet it tasted out of this world. 

[Schubunny]

About four strawberries and one radish which was woody, thought it would be, it had bolted. Somehow I'd missed it by the path.

I also lifted one row of garlic. The oddest thing is two rows of garlic, same type, same company, same place, treated exactly the same. One is doing well, apart from some rust, and is a bit of a way from lifting. The other seems stunted, it hasn't formed as many leaves and has cloves but not enough leaves to protect the cloves for storing. Almost the entire row was the same apart from a few at one end. It's in the garage tonight while I work out what to do with it. Is there any other way of storing garlic for a few months?

Oh and we 'tested' the peas. not enough for dinner yet but enough for us to have one pod each.

[Paul Plots]

I nearly added a fox to the harvest tonight!

I nipped over to the Little Pink Bungalow's veg patch as I'd forgotten to put away a trowel and caught a glimpse of a fast moving shadowy figure running from the compost heap and bounding away into nextdoor's woodland jungle.

Isn't nature a wonderful thing?

[lacewing]

How do you freeze your broad beans? Do you Blanche them at all? I seem to be accumulating them and would like to freeze them but have never done this before

It is always best to Blanche. It kills bacteria, preserves colour and flavour and stops nutrients being lost whilst frozen.

Bring a pan of water to the boil, add the shelled beans, bring back to boiling and boil for three mins. Drain the beans and plunge into cold water. When the beans are cold, drain in a sieve, you need to get as much water out as possible, I use a salad spinner, or you could just pat them in a clean tea towel.  Bag up and freeze.

Hope this is helpful, it takes a bit of time but well worth the effort