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My Broad Bean "collection" was split into Autumn sowing and Spring sowing varieties but, sorting them last night, I realised that they can be sown every month of the year - if you choose the right variety.

The most versatile are
 Aquadulce  Oct-March
Bunyards Exhibition Oct - May
Luz de Otono Oct - Dec, March - August
Wizard Field bean Feb - Apr, Sept - Oct.

Those 4 cover every month of the year!.............we won't talk about the other 11 varieties I have.

I know that BBs may not be everyone's favourites but I like growing them for their flowers and eating the young bean pods (before the beans form). My current idea is to sow BBs every month, not too many, 10-12, and dot them around the garden for "foraging" through the year. 

BBs for sowing in December are Aquadulce, Bunyard's Exhibition, Luz de Otono and Sutton.

I love BBs, but like pretty much everything else apart from salad leaves, onions and spuds I really don't want to eat them all year round.
I love looking forward to The First of whatever as the seasons change. Its one reason why we only have a fridge freezer with 3 drawers !!

Although they can be sown every month throughout the year, they wouldn't mature at the same neat intervals!

Like so many of my "ideas" I ran out of steam after a couple of months and forgot about my plan to sow BBs every month!
I did have a good crop of Aquadulce and there were some random BBs planted in the garden - that I found months later.
I'm going to sow some BBs tomorrow - there, I've said it, now I have to do it.
Anyone else sowing overwintering BBs?

Hopefully, will try to get em in the ground on my weedy bean trench soon. (Trying something myself, I've dug a 1 spit depth trench which I have thrown in some hoed off weeds and other pruning which I intend to cover and plant up. Going to see if it makes a noticeable difference.

I intend sowing some broadies but having seen the battering they get on my plot over winter, I thought about sowing them in pots and leaving them in the greenhouse until spring? Only about 25% survived the winter last time, more because they succumbed to the wind rather than the cold.