QuestionsHow to growVegetable GrowingBroad Beansbroad beans 0 Vote Up Vote Down margaret fenn asked 15 years ago I have grown broad beans for the first time they are now 5ft tall and have flowers but it looks like the little pod is all black at the end where the flower were, have they died and what can i do? 1 Answers 0 Vote Up Vote Down Gerry Daly Staff answered 7 years ago Sometimes some of the pods do not set and turn black but others do set later on and produce a crop.