Chocolate Spot on Broad Beans - help

[Jitterbug]

I have just notcied that my broad beans are developing little brown spots on them.  When I rub it they come off a little but not much.

I looked this up in the vegetable book and I would seem to think that it is halo ? disease - as each little spot has a tiny lighter ring around it but the book seems to say that only runner and french beans get this disease.  However, next to this there is a picture showing broad beans says that it is chocolate spot.  can braod beans get halo spot?   It states that I should remove and destory all affected plants. 

This crop was autumn sown and the beans are almost ready to pick - do I have to destory the whole crop - beans and all??

Any assistance would be much appreciated.

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[Jitterbug]

[Biscombe]

We get this every year but in the last few weeks of cropping, how far along are your beans??

[Jitterbug]

They were Autumn sown and are almost ready for picking.

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[Biscombe]

We dont bother to pull and burn, but we don't get choc spot until later on, then we just pull the effected leaves and plough in the rest of the plants

heres some info

http://www.rhs.org.uk/advice/profiles0705/broadbeans.asp

[Jitterbug]

Thanks Biscombe

I think that they are a bit to close together.

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[saddad]

We get it as well but ignore it unless it gets really bad...
???