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Broad Beans (fava beans)

Hi All,
I'm very new to sqft methods, have only just obtained a library copy of
Mel's book. Our local public library had to send for it for me.
We are now at the tail end of our gardening season, all we have left in
our garden are the Sweet 100 tomatoes, still ripening, leeks which we
will harvest over the next couple of months, parsnips which will be left
until the first good frosts, carrots and some silver beet (swiss chard
to you guys) which will winter over and provide pickings well into the
spring. BTW "guys" in N.Z. is non gender nowadays. I do have a question,
it is this: we always plant our broad beans (fava to you N.A.s) in the
Autumn (Fall), they germinate, grow to about 3" and then stop over
winter, surviving the frosts and small, infrequent, and light (mostly)
snowfalls we get, however I cannot find any references in Mel's book
about spacing for them. Any sqft'r out there with some experience who
could advise me ?
--
Jim Greene,
(Paisley Place, Roxburgh 9156, New Zealand. Phone/Fax (03) 4468484)
who would like to be able to garden in the Southern Hemisphere from
November to April & then move to the Northern Hemisphere from May to
October. Anybody so in love with winters that they would do some season
trading with me, I live in your place - you live in mine, I only have
late Springs, Summers & early Autumns - you have the opposite <G>

"My Grandmother taught me to be cautious !"

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