Let’s grow some fava beans! Late winter/early spring is an ideal time to start these hardy crops (field beans and broad beans), and this video shares the exact method I use every year to grow them. The video covers how to sow, transplant, care for, and harvest fava beans for anyone growing them on a kitchen garden/allotment scale.
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Awesome, I started these in the winter. I never grew them before and it is now Feb in zone 7a and they popped out of the ground.
Interesting i will think about growing them here.
I like those seed trays. Nice and big and long. Those small ones dry out quick and the roots are limited.
Thank you Huw, another great tutorial. I’m loving this series as for a beginner they give so much useful information 🙏🏼💜
some great tips, broadbeans are one of the few things I ike frozen they don't change much
My father love your videos Can you put French subtitles lots of love from France
Last year inspired by your videos I tried growing Broad beans and was surprised how easy they are. Yesterday started 5 new varieties for this season.
If you're really worried about soil spilling around, there's some heavy duty plastic trays made for concrete mixing that are inexpensive. I bought one from my big box store for $5
Hey Huw, thanks for the good tips, so I will give broad beans another go. Cheers from down under 🇦🇺 🫘 👍
Are you planting them with the Cardboardroll ?
Excellent advice and ideas. Thanks again!!
So if you pack the toilet paper rolls tightly, you can just leave them as open tubes, rather than folding in the bottoms?
Great video as always 👍 Where can I order the deep cells from?
Hue you never cease to amaze me I like the how to grow series
I live in 4B. I have hot beds in 2.5 foot tall stock tanks. Do you think field beads could be planted in them?
I've never grown broad beans or field beans because I don't know what to do with the beans when harvested 🙈 maybe this year I'll try some to cook 🤔
Hey Huw. as always thax a lot for the great work. I´ll have anyways a question for you: since im watching from abroad, could you please write down in the description or in the video the latin plant name? Sometimes its quite anoying trying to find the correct plant. That would be great!
Looking forward all we can learn from you this new season ^^
I love broad beans and i'm growing both them and field beansxx
Hi Huw, when's best time to start sowing them and then transplanting them outside?
Why “peat free” for seed starting?
Great way to recycle. ❤
Someone complained about you making a mess? It's gardening! It not supposed to be clean lmao
A plastic dog bed, normally low on one side, makes a quick potting bench.🐶
Loving your harvest basket. It is quite beautiful
When I googled field beans in NZ there is nothing. But I have just found tic beans, Vicia faba minor. Are these the same as what you call field beans?
I never fold over the rolls either the soil and roots hold on to each other. Snow here this week so grounds absolutely frozen 😢. Have a great week stay safe Ali 🇨🇦
I've grown broad beans two years now and was lazy in planting them out to the point that most of them had air pruned their own taproots – disaster, right? Well they didn't seem to mind, and I've had a great crop from healthy looking plants, which had incredibly shallow and tiny roots for how huge the plants were. Starting broad beans in peat pots is amusing because the taproot will often break through the bottom and go wandering before you see the shoot appear.
Each time you mention ‘Fava Beans’ my mind instantly goes back to Anthony Hopkins in ‘Silence of The Lambs’ 😆😆every time lol
Your videos are so incredibly well shot/edited. Kudos to whoever is doing that.
So what sort of date do you aim to put them outside in the ground?
The tops are edible, too? 😮 Nice! Thank you. I didn't know that.
I've tried the bathroom tissue rolls before and they dry out like crazy and I've never had anything sprout in them. But for some good news, I get my compost and manure next Friday. Yay!!💃. Are all gardeners this easy to please?
I was going to make a raised bed out of an old (what looks like???) waterbed frame for my beans this year. But it has a bottom and is MAYBE 8-10" deep. How deep do you think I need for bean roots? (I have other options).
just use a piece of pond foil 1x1m and you have a clean bench for years
With my runner beans, I wait until they're dried out to harvest for dried beans. Wouldn't it be the same for fava beans?