Yes, tougher over the winter, very tall, so although the pods are short with small beans, you get lots of them, until they explode......so in future I will do as advised.....pick lots of green beans early, then soon afterwards get the lot before they shed their seeds.
In this case, I will drag the plants out of the ground, fork it over, and see what comes up in ?October, and let them grow through the winter.
I love broad beans and will continue to sow them in the autumn to stand over the winter and produce fatter, sweeter beans inj the early spring.