re: Getting back in the saddle

miranda — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 17:47:58 GMT

Hello Geoff, I've been growing Martock broadbeans for a few years now and like them very much. It's a short pod and the beans are small, with just three to five in a pod, but they are very tasty and not at all bitter. I also noticed that they coped far better with aphids compared to the other broad beans I grew. I save and share my saved seed every year.

I also had my beans from the Heritage Seed Library and they put a little slip of paper in with it, which said this:

'An old landrace variety grown in Somerset for centuries, probably not much changed from the small-seeded beans that were a mainstay of the medieval diet. Donated to the Heritage Seed Library in the 1970s by Steve Oxbrow, who came across an advert in his local paper where the Bishop of Bath and Wells was offering samples of the beans in exchange for a donation to the cathedral roof restoration fund. The earliest reference to them is in the manorial account rolls of 1293. A robust bean with small pods and a meaty taste that was welcome on fast days. “Martock men be full of beans! If you shake a Martock man he rattles!”'

re: Getting back in the saddle

Febcos — Thu, 14 May 2009 13:34:23 GMT

Hi geoff, will you be posting about your outcome of the seedbed roll, As i am a stockist and very keen on your thoughts.

re: Getting back in the saddle

Febcos — Thu, 14 May 2009 13:30:19 GMT

Hi Geoff, will you be posting a review of the seedbed rolls, as i am a stockist and very keen to hear your thoughts of the product.

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