Broad beans in flower...

Personally I`d leave them alone, just to see what happens.

Two foot high! Are they under cover. They obviously think it is Spring. These flowers are very unlikely to produce beans. They may produce more flowers in the Spring.

I suspect that these plants will suffer badly through the Winter, either with frost or wind. They may well shoot out tillers from the bottom in the Spring, in which case they could produce a good crop.

My advice is to leave them alone and see what happens but be prepared to pull them up and replant.

Thanks all.

The plants are well supported, I may loose one or two stems (as I did last year) but the majority should still be standidng when Spring arrives. I remember digging them out of the snow last year, no problem. Last years crop from the plants I planted the previous Autumn was incredible, an abundance of huge pods and beans, and they grew to over five feet tall!