The Accidental Smallholder Forum
Growing => Vegetables => Topic started by: cloddopper on August 11, 2015, 11:17:41 pm
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I've been growing my own broad beans from my own seed for several years .
This year has given me a prolific crop over 2.6 kg of beans from only 8 plants .
Tonight I've pressure canned/ preserved 10 x 125 g " Weck" jars of them .
This is a years supply , for I'm the only one who eats them in this house.
I'm going to dry the rest for seed and use some for sowing in early Nov for a strong crop next year . There will be far to many for me , so if any of you would like a dozen or so seeds in about six weeks drop me a PM with your real name 7 address.
Dave
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Which variety do you grow? I have terrible problems with chocolate spot so am always looking for heavy croppers so that I can spread out fewer, more productive plants.
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A friend gave me some seed this year, so just shoved them in and left them to get on with it not really thinking about whether I'd eat them or not. They're just about the only prolific thing in my garden and I tried a boiling. Disgusting things so they're for the chickens now.
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Which variety do you grow? I have terrible problems with chocolate spot so am always looking for heavy croppers so that I can spread out fewer, more productive plants.
Dunno , over the last four years they have done their own GM thing and crossed with what other pollen the bees & insects had on them.
Try planting your beans farther apart and don't water them ( if you have been doing ) save for in prolonged drought conditions and even then only water in the evening so it can have time to get deeper down before he sun comes & dries out the topsoil.
What type & depth of soil are you growing them on ?
It's best to eat lightly salted & lightly boiled broad beans when they are about 12 mm in diameter adding a light semi runny white parsley sauce or plenty of thick knife & fork gravy to the plate they are on is something I enjoy .
If you boil them to death they taste awful , so does storing picked pods for more than a day then boiling the beans .
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My very favourite mid-June meal is lambs liver, the first new spuds and the first broad beans with a good bit of onion gravy.
Also, let them get a bit big, boil them, take the skins off and make a sort of pate with summer savory, delicious!!
Cloddopper, the kale is doing well! Thank you.
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afeter setting some aside for theiose who have already requested them , I've still got four more vac packed heat sealed envelopes of home grown 4 th generation broad beans up for grabs .
Two with aboutt 16 beans in each pack and two with about 24 in them
For those that want these please put your names up on the thread so folks can see if they are all taken .
Dave
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I've been growing my own broad beans from my own seed for several years .
This year has given me a prolific crop over 2.6 kg of beans from only 8 plants .
Tonight I've pressure canned/ preserved 10 x 125 g " Weck" jars of them .
This is a years supply , for I'm the only one who eats them in this house.
I'm going to dry the rest for seed and use some for sowing in early Nov for a strong crop next year . There will be far to many for me , so if any of you would like a dozen or so seeds in about six weeks drop me a PM with your real name 7 address.
Dave
Good for you I think its great, well done :thumbsup: Me and my mum like broad beans, but my brothers hate them, so for that reason I don't grow them, but I will next year. I have some cleverly designed recipes to hide them :innocent:
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Mexican taco's with refried beans is a good wy to go .
Simmer boil them well in light salted water for an hour ,strain off, cool , skin , mash , fry , cool , vac pac in small quantities & freeze .
Then when needed defrost & re fry as required .