About a month ago I left some martock beans (old broad bean variety) in a plastic bag and forgot about them, the other day I opened the bag and loads of the beans had started sprouting out of the pods. So yesterday I planted them up in pots and left them in my shed windowsill. Now I'm going to watch to see what happens.
Do you think they'll perhaps grow and overwinter?
As an old variety I'd give them more chance than others... remember there was alittle Ice Age in the Tudor/Stuart period... :-\
Better than throwing them away.
You could always cloche them as an insurance.
Wow, an old bean from Martock in Somerset.
What do they taste like?
If you're seed saving in the future would love to arrange a swap, just to bring some back to their homeland :)
Absolutely sally a, although mammoth onion and pennard plants both sell them.
They taste fabulous, and I'm not just saying that cause they're odd. Much smaller pods but much more of them per plant, lovely small beans.
Thanks for the recommendation, Sawfish. I looked them up and they seem very highly rated. Think I'll give them a go.
I'm a relative novice with beans - I can grow them with no problems but by harvest time I just can't seem to get my head around what to do with which ones. It doesn't help that something seems to enjoy digging up and running off with the plant labels.