The broad bean is a simple enough thing to grow, and a sybaritic pleasure to eat on a warm day, especially straight from its velvet-lined pod. Fork through the soil and take out a shallow flat trench the width of a spade by carefully shovelling the soil to one side. Place the big seeds in a double staggered row, mark the ends of the rows with stout canes, and carefully return the soil. As the shoots grow, support them with two rows of twine stretched between the canes. The result is immeasurably better than anything bought in a shop.
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Chelsea Flower Show 2025: What else to do in SW3 if you're coming to the world's greatest flower showThere's more to Chelsea than just the Flower Show so we've rounded up some of the best places to eat, stay and shop.
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Uniquely unique? The Yorkshire grain silos transformed into a home that's a symphony in glass, steel and curvesAmid the beautiful countryside of North Yorkshire, on the edge of the Castle Howard Estate, The Silos is a property for which the word 'house' simply doesn't cut it. And that's not the only way in which it's made us throw out the dictionary.
