Spring Harvest
Food for the garden and us
Anyone can grow fava beans! push in them in to any soil in the winter time after you've harvested all your fall crops. Let mother nature do its work and watch these hardy legumes get to work. They need no fuss and can be left on their own without ever watering in most conditions.
You can cut them back after they've grown half a foot and till the whole plant to your soil and cover with compost. Or let half of them grow until you yield the precious pods and beans. So many uses for this amazing cover crop and nitrogen injector! As food for you and me and food for the soil. Its roots and roughage tilled in to your parent material is a natural source of nitrgoen.
As for food, harvest the pods and the leaves, 15-minutes in the grill or oven, drizzle some olive oil and sprinkle some finishing salt and done. Eat the beans by popping them out like edamame and enjoy!
Comments (3844)Weekend Sowings
TBT to my first season!
I first broke ground in this area spring of 2019! pre-pandemic with a covered greenhouse and all! Pictured here from a champagne box I rescued from work at the time along with the wine spit cups (sshhhh!) are some of my favorite performers in the garden: zinnias, tithonias, artichokes and marigolds. 
2021 and still going....
I've lost the cover to the greenhouse ever since the fires and the winds that preceded in 2020! With some patchwork and cold frames, the seedlings keep coming! Transplanted this weekend and sowed more! Lots of summer and winter squashes, tomatoes, cucumbers, peppers and more! All organic of course! A list to follow....
Mar 17, 2021 at 8:30 AM
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