broad beans when to panic!

Janey.. I don't have any advice for you but I am also having broad bean problems. I thought I'd be able to get out to my allotment but the constant rain has kept the soil mucky-wet.. and I have no paths laid out yet. Sooooo I have no prepared growing area.. but what I do have is 4 pots full of sprouted broad bean plants that I started in the propagator (on the kitchen counter!!) and now don't have anywhere to put. They are growing like weeds!!! Aaaaaaaaah...

I planted 'The Sutton' about 2 or 3 weeks ago on a clay soil and was getting a little worried so had a bit of a furtle and found that the one I dug up had germinated and was sprouting ok, hope it didn't mind the disturbance

Mine tallk nearly 4 weeks to appear

You don`t really gain anything by sowing seeds in the ground at this time of year. Much better to start them off in pots in January. Saves a lot of heartache.

Just tell him no, you are growing them properly.

Planted mine (Aquadulce) in fibre pots in the greenhouse about 3 weeks ago.  Now most are about an inch high and am hoping to put them out in the soil later this week if it dries up a bit.  If it is any consolation those I planted in early spring this year to fill the gaps seemed to catch up the Autumn ones by harvest time in any case.

Couldn't agree more! Last season my neighbour's autumn sown BB, once the wind and weather had got at them, were not as good as my spring planted ones.... (he says modestly but truthfully) 

Despite this I have around 30 aquadulce plants on the plot and looking healthy. (Sown in pots in a cold greenhouse first). So far the foxes have played around them (although they broke the string - again) and the wind hasn't flattened them. They've 2 chances... grow or not.