Growing Broad Beans, also Fava bean

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10 Oct 11 yvonne (Australia - sub-tropical climate)
My broadbeans have yealded a good crop . Do I pull the plant out or do I leave it there to yeald again?
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27 Dec 11 (Australia - temperate climate)
leave a few pods on the bean plant until the plant shrivels and dies. Then collect the pods which will be black and shriveled and replant the seeds from these pods next year preferably in a different part of garden (for crop rotation)
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