Don't ignore the re-growth.

[princefreddy]

Re re-growth - has anyone tried with broad beans?  Have just read in Sarah Raven's 'Great Vegetable Plot' that you can cut autumn sown broad beans to 2" once they have cropped and they can regrow to give a second crop.  Sounded intriguing and labour saving to me.

[princefreddy]

[Barnowl]

Several months ago I noticed lumps appearing in a neighbour's weed fabric and suggested we had a look underneath. Found a load of potatoes coming up so removed the fabric.

Turned out they were pink fir apples I'd given her in Spring 2006 which she had never harvested - just cut back the haulms and covered with the fabric. Anyway the young couple  who took over the plot a couple of months ago started digging them up ( the haulms have pretty much died back) and are getting a bumper crop of Pink Firs.

[Riffster]

Someone had mentioned the point with spuds.  So I spuddled to harvest from some of my plants,  by doing this, taking only the largest spuds as needed the smaller ones kept growing. !