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How to: Growing fava beans

If you are a beginner in the garden, growing fava beans might be just the thing for you. They thrive in many different climates and are a delicious and nutritious food source!

Harvesting fava beans

My beautiful fava beans are some of the best smelling plants in the kitchen garden. And the flowers have just started to produce large, fresh pods filled with delicious different-colored beans.

Guide: Planting and growing beans

I think that every respectable gardener should be growing beans in their kitchen gardens. Beans are not only tasty and easy to cook with but also very healthy and rich in protein. But which beans should you pick then? I'll go through my favorite beans and how to grow them in this guide.

Harvesting fava beans (broad beans)

Can you really get more than one harvest from your fava plants? The answer is yes, but the question is if you should. This is my opinion on how to go about harvesting fava beans.

Welcome to my Letters from the garden

Do you want to know more about My kitchen garden? Sign up to my newsletter to stay updated on what’s going on week by week. In it, I’ll share my thoughts about life, cooking and all the garden projects I have going on right now. The latest letter was filled with fava beans.

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Growing fava beans early in the season

Fava beans produce lovely, chubby little plants that I move to my garden beds quite early in the season. They’re very easy to sow. In this post, I’ll share some of my best tips on how growing fava beans early can help you prolong the harvest season.