Broad Beans or Fava Beans are an excellent winter crop. Not only do they produce a tasty bean early in spring before your other crops get up and running, they also are one of the best green manure / nitrogen fixing crops making them a true multi purpose crop.·The volume of compostable material they produce is huge as this photo shows. Finally the beans freeze well making them ideal for winter soups.
So next autumn plant a bed of Broad Beans and reap the benefits.
