Grow your own delicious Broad Beans with 'Witkiem', which produces a good crop of plump pods filled with big, tasty beans from June onwards. This white seeded variety shows excellent tolerance to cold weather, so it’s ideal for early February sowings but can also be sown successionally through to May. Delicious eaten fresh, surplus crops can be successfully frozen to be enjoyed later in the year. Companion planting: try growing broad beans with summer savory to help repel black bean aphids, a common pest of broad beans.Direct sow broad bean seed under cloches in February, or without protection from March to April. For particularly early crops some varieties of broad beans may also be sown outdoors under cloches from early autumn to late winter. Grow beans in full sun on rich fertile, well manured soil with protection from strong winds. Plant broad beans in double rows set 23cm (9") apart and allowing at least 60cm (24") between each double row. Sow broad beans at a depth of 5cm (2