Pick broad beans when they're young and tender. Photo: SALLY TAGG / NZ GARDENER/Stuff Zipped up inside their fleecy pods, broad beans are the only bean tough enough to grow all through the winter. Add ...

We always save some of our Green Windsor broad beans as we cannot buy them now. However, this year we looked at the beans in the paper bag and some of them have holes in them! Also on inspection we ...

19:31, Wed, Feb 18, 2015 Updated: 19:34, Wed, Feb 18, 2015 You can plant them outside before the soil gets too cold, in October and November, and once it starts warming up again in March or April, but ...

Broad beans are a traditional allotment crop that, sown in November, can provide one of the first fresh pickings of summer. You can also sow in spring. The Which? Gardening magazine experts have ...

Growing fava beans (Vicia faba), also known as broad beans, is a remarkably rewarding experience in the vegetable garden. This cool-season legume is a culinary knockout not only for its delicious, ...

Broad beans are delicious and tender, works great in salads, soups and much more and they’re also very easy to grow. Whether you’re opting for green or white beans, you should give gardening a go if ...

On my kitchen counter sits a jar full of dried broad beans. I rattle it every now and again in satisfaction. It keeps me in all manner of dishes in winter: soaked and split for soups, mashed for dips, ...

During June, July and August when most of the garden is in hibernation mode, broad beans suddenly become a top seller on the seed stand or as punnets of six in the garden centre. Broadbeans are a ...