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Thanks to you both for your responses.
It will be interesting to see how many of the broad beans I sowed back in early November end up tillering naturally. In addition, I may try Will’s method on a couple of plants from February sowings to see what happens.
Back in October I sowed a couple of rows of broad bean, closely spaced, for leaf as a quick salad bowl addition, doubling as a green manure (as in ‘How To Grow Winter Veg’). Following nipping out the tops for salad, I fleeced the plants in an attempt to over winter them. Some plants have survived, so far, and most have tillered – I just didn’t know that this was the name for it.
Can any other plants be treated in this manner, as a possible way of increasing yield?