Growing Broad Beans, also Fava bean

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01 Jun 10 Candice bartels-waller (Australia - temperate climate)
My beans are finished fo the year do I rip them out or will they re-produce beans nxt year?
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02 Jun 10 (Australia - cool/mountain climate)
Hi Candice, you should pull out finished broad bean plants. If possible twist them off to leave the roots to decay in the ground as the bacterial nodules on the roots contain nitrogen which will be fertilizer for whatever you plant next.
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