You don't see broad beans in the supermarkets that much but the good news is you can grow them yourself in abundance; and double good news is that they freeze well and don't tend to lose their flavour in the process like runner and climbing beans seem to. The truth is that you can have broad beans all year round if you grow enough of them.
It might be that broad beans are something of aMarmite crop. If you're not keen – possibly because you've been served with very mature beans at some stage in your life – you do need to revisit them. Picked young (even slightly immature) they are
