Broad Beans

I picked some broad beans late today - I think they’re ready… nice and long and I can feel the beans inside the pods.

Something has certainly taken a fancy to them as quite a lot have been eaten …what is it? A bit of a search suggests it could be caterpillars or birds - I’ve no idea?

I think we’ll freeze them. The BBC suggests you don’t need to blanch them but I’ve read elsewhere that you should blanch them? Any suggestions?

June 15, 2008 | Filed Under broadbeans 

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7 Responses to “Broad Beans”

  1. mary on June 21st, 2008 3:17 am

    Just wondering whereabouts is your allotment. I used to live in Lee road. I remember getting into lots of trouble playing in the vegie allotments at the end of the street.

  2. admin on June 21st, 2008 4:33 am

    G’Day Mary

    Yep, that’s where mine is, over the railway line at the bottom of Sandringham Avenue.

  3. mary on June 27th, 2008 9:16 pm

    That is so cool. I lefy when I was 12. Haven’t been back. You don’t know a Pauline Eaton do you? I am fairly sure she got married so it would be Pauline ? (nee Eaton). Or how about David Armatage?

  4. admin on June 28th, 2008 7:12 am

    Hi

    Sorry, but neither of those names ring a bell!

  5. mary on July 2nd, 2008 4:55 am

    My name used to be Barlow. Dad was Don, Mum, Barbara, Ever heard of us?

  6. admin on July 2nd, 2008 11:47 am

    nope!

  7. mary on July 3rd, 2008 2:34 pm

    Ok, I’ll leave you in peace now. Cheers!

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