I feel like I’ve just had the food of the gods tonight! I harvested a cup and a half of broad beans tonight and made an amazing risotto using broad beans, mint, chives and parsley from the garden and of course a store-boughtonion (because mine are quite a way off) and store-bought garlic as mine isn’t quite ready in the garden. There was also home-made stock, wine and bacon to go with the risotto.
I have spent the majority of my life disliking broad beans…but I have found some terrific recipes and I’m really starting to develop a taste for them.
Broad beans have been super easy to grow and this is my second year growing them. Last year we had lots of problems with fungal diseases, but I’ve been on top of it this year and we’re getting bumper crops from our two plantings of broad beans. I planted two successive crops at three week intervals in late winter/early spring. And they have been so easy to care for. The only real problems I’ve experience this year was with the wind as I talked about in my blog early on in the challenge, but next year I have some ideas about how I can combat that!
So all in all, it’s fair to say that I think I’ve had great success with broad beans and I’m definitely an advocate for growing them!
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