Wait! It’s not quite time to hang up your boots for the season yet. There’s a crop you can still sow that will give you some of your earliest harvests of 2023 if you get them in now!
It’s the vegetable that time forgot, the humble broad bean or fava bean. The long lost legume you’re going to love! Ben tells us all we need to know to grow these nutritious, delicious plump treats in this week’s episode.
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Well, there are people who get sick from eating fava beans, and some even die, due to a genetic abnormality.
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Love Broad Beans, growing them again from seed I saved from last year, just out of interest, how many did you plant in that raised bed?
My grandfather swore to planting 3 beans to each hole but 2 to 3 inches apart in a triangle so they support each other.
Will this work in Zone 5 too, even if snow on ground, as now we have here in Western Canada's interior?
The addition of Savory (Saturega), to any kind of beans during cooking, will reduce the gas remittance problem.
I'm a serious pedant of advanced years. I'm British, though that's an accident of birth. It was only recently that I realised that AMERICAN fava beans are the same as our BROAD beans. Please oh please keep to names we know. Life is full of americanisms already. Otherwise I really enjoy your vids. Thank you!
My tomato plants are re flowering in November (South Wales).
Daffodil bulbs already sprouting!
Crazy weather this year.
All I know about fava beans is they pair well with liver and a nice Chianti…
Thank you!
In Italy fava beans are a must during spring holidays of Easter. We eat them after a nice barbecue and along with Pecorino Romano cheese , love them, definetely gonna try to sow them this year!
What temperature is “ very cold” ?
We can get down to single degree for a while most years and 20’s and teens on the regular. Is that too cold to autumn sow?
G6PD we're allergic to fava beans.
Thank you so much for a terrific video. Fava are my favorite! I have been planting them for the last two years, they are delicious boiled whole, cooked with lamb and tomato stew, the inner part can be cooked with white rice and dill, Yum! Even the dry fava can be boiled and topped with fried eggs, sprinkle of dry or fresh mint, olive oil and a splash of lemon as a breakfast fit for a king.
I just boil the beans short before ready, then i bake in another pan some bacon bits when they are golden golden brown i add the beans and bake for some minutes. Really simple but i love it with some bread on a cold winter night
Getting on that right now.
Great cover crop
I have tucked the flowers in to arrangements before, they look like black and white orchids
Hey i have really gotten into your broadcasts. Great info and you make it look sooooo easy, but i do bring myself back to current day that i am a beginner and you have been doing this all your life. Thank god someone shows an interesting and informational show. i HAVE LEARNED A LOT , THANKS.
Great video ❤
Widely used in Egypt in falafel recipes
This is my favorite broad bean recipe:
Cook Gnocchi as to recipe ad the frozen broad beans ,in the last minute of cooking , drain , ad cream cheese with herbs or plain cream cheese. Top with bacon bids . My fast food recipe! Ready in five minutes
We boil fava beans in their shells in saltwater then just eat them when they are ready, its a treat where we live in Latvia! 🙂