Amateur Gardening

Broad beans

This week it’s:

RECENTLY, I popped to our local supermarket for some broad beans (we’d finished our home-grown supply). There wasn’t a single bean to be had in the fresh veg area. So, despite frozen beans tasting nothing like the fresh ones, I traipsed over to the freezer section. There were plenty of beans, so I grabbed a bag, paid for it, and went home. But we didn’t eat broad beans that evening – I’d actually bought soya beans (the frozen bags looked identical). I was annoyed with myself. Soya beans are tasteless in comparison to broad beans – my second favourite vegetable (after sprouts). Let’s take a look at them.

Any recipe ideas for soya beans? There’s still a bag in our freezer.

Sowing tricks

NOVEMBER to February is when you can sow certain winter-hardy broad bean varieties (covering the rows with cloches). They’ll be ready

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