Joseph Lofthouse wrote:Casie: I started a germination test on the fava beans a few days ago. It's my best harvest yet, and I've only just begun to harvest. Plus I had enough green pods to share them 3 weeks at the farmer's market.
Deb: Thanks for the grow report. I love it when my seed gets into other people's gardens, and grows better than it does for me. I get teased sometimes that my "medium" moschata squash are more like "large"! I grow without fertilizers, or added compost. So when my things get into a high fertility garden, I sometimes get wonderful grow reports. And my weeding is iffy, so when they get into a well weeded garden...
Deb Rebel wrote:Just wish I could get the grasshoppers to go away, with it being a lot wetter this year, it's bugs Bugs BUGS!!!
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Roger Taylor wrote:
I've never had a skinned broad/fava bean.
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R Ranson wrote:
Roger Taylor wrote:
I've never had a skinned broad/fava bean.
I have in the Mediterranean import shop. Both dry and canned.
Thekla McDaniels wrote:slipping the skins is well worth the time. This is the only way I have ever had them, and heave been trying to figure out how to grow them ever since, more than 10 years ago!
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Joseph Lofthouse wrote:
A couple weeks ago, I harvested the fava beans. It was a glorious harvest. The best that I have ever had. I have been growing favas for years, but finally got the genetics, habits, (and perhaps weather), that allowed them to really thrive this year. I noticed a trait that might prove to be useful...
About 80% of the plants in the patch produced seeds and then croaked. About 20% of the plants in the patch re-sprouted from the roots. That would be an amazing trait if they are able to produce a fall crop of fava beans for me. So I culled, keeping the plants that are re-sprouting more vigorously and precociously.
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Gardening on lakebed sediments with 7 inch silty clay loam topsoil, 7 inch clay accumulation layer underneath, have added sand in places.
Joseph Lofthouse wrote:
Favism is pretty common among beans... The poison is deactivated by intense cooking. Some people have run into problems with favism when using slow-cookers to cook kidney beans for example. I definitely wouldn't eat fava greens raw. And I have determined that I'm not going to sell fava greens, pods, or shellies at the farmer's market. Seems too risky to ask people to be prudent.
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