The puzzling, jammed-together plants grew to around 60 cm fairly quickly, and flowered to form a rather attractive display that has developed too late in the season for beans to form and mature.

Detail of the flower of the Agua Dulce Broad Bean. Heirloom Vegetable Gardening by William Woys Weaver is the culmination of some thirty years of first-hand knowledge of growing, tasting and cooking ...

A while ago, when renting, we spent a year without a garden. In many ways, it was a refreshing break from the commitments a garden presents, offering the chance to daydream about what I’d like to do ...

Timing is everything when it comes to ensuring a successful harvest. And as a seriously versatile addition to any garden, ...

BROAD beans’ white and purple flowers spreading across fields in England were once “a sweetness of spring around many villages”. Before a plethora of other beans arrived in Europe from the New World, ...

Broad beans, vicia faba, come from the Fabaceace family also referred to as the vetch or pea family. It is an annual plant with beautiful edible flowers, commonly pale white, streaked with purple; ...

Unlike other beans, broad (fava) beans are hardy and can be planted in late winter or early spring. March used to be my targeted time for sowing, but in recent years I’ve found that seedings made in ...

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