Broad Beans

I've got the same problem with mine. I pulled some pods yesterday but there's not many more on the plants. I think it's a lack of pollination.

This site is amazing - I have exactly the same problem and was just this evening looking at my broad beans and thinking how strange it was the flowers had disappeared from the top half of the plant leaving no beans behind - it's almost like a timeline of when the bee's disappeared! Furthermore, they now appear to have stopped growing - will any more flowers appear on the existing stems or is that it for this year?

This has happened to me too but as it is the first time I have grown broad beans I didn't know what to expect. I DO have some pods but not many and just enough to provide us with a small accompaniment to one meal I reckon! I grew mine in newspaper pots and planted mine out just after the cold snap BUT at the same time I also planted some beans straight into the ground just in case the plants didn't survive. the ones with the beans on were the original ones - the others are now growing into small plants and are full of flowers so I am hoping.

However, I would also like to know if more flowers will come once I have picked the pods - or is this it?

I have just found this link, which suggests that the more you pick, the more flowers form, and therefore the more broad beans we get! (Ignore the video unless you particularly want to watch it - the relevant information is written below it!)

http://www.videojug.com/film/how-to-harvest-broad-beans