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Broad Beans
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Broad Beans at a Glance
Sow -
September to December in groups of 3
Depth -
3-4 cm
Distance Apart -
1 m between the groups
Harvest -
January - March
Broad Bean - Haba
Broad beans are a useful vegetable to grow, much more useful than they appear to be in the UK.
You can of course use cook them as a vegetable, or do as the Spanish do, and eat them raw, especially with a glass of red wine.
Young Broad Bean Plants in a Group of 3
If you have grown broad beans in the UK, you probably grew them in a row or possibly a double close spaced row.
In Spain they are grown in bunches, or at least they are sown in groups of 3, with about 15cm between each seed, and perhaps a 1 metre space between each group.
Later sown beans that will probably not grow so large could be at closer spacing.
Being a large seed, broad beans can be sown fairly deep, about 3 or 4 centimetres. You can simply push them in the prepared ground at the desired positions.
Mature Broad Bean Plants in Flower
The theory is that the three plants that hopefully grow from each group of 3 seeds, will grow together and produce what looks like a bush at first glance.
In other words, the plants entwine and support each other - and it appears to work.
Blog items relating to broad beans
02/10/07 Melons Out, Broad Beans In
The melons have finished (later than usual) and as soon as they have come out, broad beans have gone in. This is how our crop rotation usually works.
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