Broad Beans

I could do with a gardening guide as planting times are so different from the UK.
I was browsing in a garden centre a few weeks ago and saw that early winter was th right time to sow broad beans. Three weeks later and they are healthy shoots, and apparently will be ready to crop in about 2 months. If successful there will be a blip of our first broad bean crop in the southern hemisphere in a few weeks time.