You're right!! thank you for keeping me patient... When the blackened husks of dead flowers fall off, there is a tiny bean behind - which looks (if they all come through) like a good crop! Yippee!!! (still an amateur - 6 out of 18 things worked last year - so hoping to improve this year, despite the...

They are here - and huge!!! Already got over 20 flowers each - and probably 15" high in very small pots!!! so definitely value for money, especially if the seeds stay true <grin>
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Salimandre

Yup those are they!! Heavily advertised this year through the magazines - I ordered a month ago and guess they have had to grow a load more micro-plants as they have still not arrived (sigh). I'll try saving seed this year (first time) and will let you know! (as you said, assuming they actually do a...

I grow these in a pot on the patio - 14" or 16" but quite shallow. They seem to do fine! I don't cut side-shoots - just let them produce and enjoy. I'm hoping this year to grow Hundreds & Thousands (Suttons) if Suttons ever get round to sending them - in hanging baskets on a "hang...

I planted a half-bed of Red Epicure broad beans - they grew well, are now above waist-height and have had lots of flowers. The flowers are now dying off, but there is no sign of a pod - should there be? The flowers were white with a black dot - perhaps not interesting enough for pollinating?? Anythi...