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If you don't have too many slugs I'd sow direct - less work. If you're worried about slugs then may be best to sow in pots first.
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I plant one variety, (Aqua Dulce iirc) direct in autumn to get an earlier spring crop. Looks like I've lost some to rodents this year which is a first but will use that raised bed for peas instead in the spring. My other bed has sprouted much quicker than usual due to the ongoing mild conditions.
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Does anyone have feel strongly that I shouldn't direct plant broad beans at this time of year? I've been a little too busy to keep up with the allotment recently and wondering whether it'd get more developed plants by direct planting now or sowing into deeper pots and planting out in a few weeks. London based.