See if you can get some Broad beans Aquadulce Claudia - you can put the seeds in a double row in your garden abaout now, and get a delicious early crop of Broad Beans, hopefully around May time - and an early crop should avoid being plagued by the black aphids that trouble spring sown beans.
And as a bonus, when the flowers of your broad beans are wilting and you can see the little bean pods forming behind them, you can pinch out; the tips of the bean plants and cook them. This is another thing that will help deter the black aphids, and it's a vegetable that you'll never find in the shops - only those of us who grow our own broad beans can ever enjoy thiis treat
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Broad beans.
See if you can get some Broad beans Aquadulce Claudia - you can put the seeds in a double row in your garden abaout now, and get a delicious early crop of Broad Beans, hopefully around May time - and an early crop should avoid being plagued by the black aphids that trouble spring sown beans.
And as a bonus, when the flowers of your broad beans are wilting and you can see the little bean pods forming behind them, you can pinch out; the tips of the bean plants and cook them. This is another thing that will help deter the black aphids, and it's a vegetable that you'll never find in the shops - only those of us who grow our own broad beans can ever enjoy thiis treat
Scroll down on this web page for a recipe http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2010/apr/18/nigel-slater-spring-recipes
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.