Some clarification: Field beans and broad beans are the same species (Vicia faba) but different varieties. Field beans most commonly sold as a cover crop. One variety of field bean is Vespa, apparently grown for culinary use but I found no difference in taste to the cheap green manure seeds I bought and grew on to produce beans! ;)
Help, we (in the States) can't figure out what variety you mean. Fava beans, field beans ect. come in pole and bush varieties. We have lima (also known as butter), and beans you dry (white, black, red, navy, pinto ect). Please tell us what varieties are field beans to you. The internet does not know, we tried 🤔.
It really is so good. Well rounded and nutty. Use a recipe with less salt to preserve the sweetness of the koji. The ratios I used were 2 pounds dry beans, 4 pounds koji and 270 g salt. Aged 2-3 months (due to higher proportion of koji to salt).@Ann moy, @Chili h, @injusticehurley
I usually ferment the cooked field bean grains with yoghurt bacteria, which is delicious too and way better to digest than without fermentation. Especially recomended if you want or have to reduce carbs in your diet! It is a bit tricky to do but works pretty well, when using active wey, enough salt and mustard seeds (very important!). If it should smell bad though, throw it out! Rotten protein can be harmful. You gotta know what you're doing.
The also make a great salad leaf addition grown as a cut and come again microgreen on windowsills through the winter. There a really nice delicate flavour, somewhere between a sunflower microgreen and baby leaf spinach. Definitely worth a go! 👍
Vicia faba has 2 subspecies, Vicia faba var. major is the Broad Bean sold for human food consumption and Vicia faba var. minor (Hwu's field beans) are used as a cover crop and animal feed. Marjorie, MA, US
@@plkingtonj One place is Healthy Harvesters; they list it as Pigeon Peas, which is yet another(!) common name. Using Pigeon Peas may help in further searches but check carefully, that's the danger of 'common names' lol. Marjorie
Huw, I've given field beans a try on your recommendation. Just eaten the first pick now. They have been a success, high yield,, not much trouble to grow, tasty to eat. I grew broad beans alongside (50% over wintered) and the field beans crop is better plus for some reason the wood pigeons have not had a go at them. The plants seem strong and less prone to fold over. So I'm a convert, the cheap seeds are a bonus. Thank you
US: Sandhill Preservation Center may sell them under Shelling Beans/Fava/Bell, as a packet Territorial Seeds sells them as cover crops by the pound Surely there are others as well
This is really interesting for me Huw, having lost my broad beans to cold again this winter I’ve just ordered a pack to try this year, thanks for sharing 👍
Interesting insight to the Field Beans. They are grown here as winter cover crop, but they winter kill once the temp drops to 10Fº or below. As a winter cover crop they do an excellent job of bringing nitrogen into the soil, and then keeping the soil covered throughout the winter with the decomposing winter killed plants. Never thought of growing them in the summer as a food source, but might have to re-think that after watching this video.
Good man. I've just bought 5kg of 'Maris Bead' from Hodmedods to both eat and as seedstock. They're the size of large peas, but will hopefully be one of the mainstays of my self reliance cropping. I've also bought Red Fox and Badger carlin peas for the same. All three make fabulous hummous.
My field beans/fava beans have been in the ground since the autumn and survived the cold winter here in the Midlands. It's a good cover crop but I left mine to grow to fill height last year and we loved the beans. As a cover crop I'm digging in 2 rows this month so that the whole plants feed the soil rather than just the nodules on the roots giving nitrogen to my crops. The tips can be eaten in salads and help to make a bushier plant.
I'm a new fan of ava/field beans too and we grew a huge crop of them last year. We had two varieties, Wizard and Maris Bard. Wizard has slightly larger seeds than Maris Bard, which are really tiny. Both were very productive and tasty, though I found in the very hot weather last summer they stopped producing quite suddenly and all dried on the plants. So we ended up podding and drying them for winter. We harvested many kilos and have been eating both frozen and dried beans all winter. I agree that they produce much heavier crops compared to broad beans, there were many more pods per plant and they grew about 8 feet tall in a bed consisting mainly of well rotted horse manure (we'd grown a fab crop of winter squash the previous year). I sowed some in November last year but sadly the cold snap killed them as I'd only just planted them out when it froze. I'm just about to re-sow them now but I'm not going to do quite so many this year as there's only so many beans two people can eat!
Hope this helps US growers- Two subspecies are grown. Vicia faba var. major (broad beans) has large seeds, and is grown as a vegetable for human consumption. It can be used in soups, stews, salads and side dishes. Vicia faba var. minor (horse beans or field beans) is grown for feeding livestock.
I planted three staggered crops last year, all coming up before December and then that freeze came over the U.K. the sowing I did first and were tallest suffered the most and have never really recovered. Of course, this may be because I harvested the tops before that for dinner or they were leggy enough to be more vulnerable (even in the sunniest spots, the sun doesn’t shine enough in the winter). The other two beds were fine throughout all the frosts, although more or less stopped growing. These were all planted mostly as a cover crop and I plan to plant some in another bed that needs rest probably until autumn. However, I may leave the smallest bed to flower and crop.
Thank you for great information on your videos. I can not find any here in the U.S. The cover crops are mostly field peas, clover and some fava beans, winter rye,,bummer. Can you please sell me some thru your website?
The only place I can find these to buy is on eBay and there are literally only two sellers. The ones I bought ("green manure") look TOTALLY different from the ones grown in this video - they look like small brown peas, and aren't bean shaped at all. I don't know whether there are different varieties of field bean... the seller doesn't specify a variety... but I'm a bit suspicious. Might mine be the Vespa variety mentioned in the pinned clarification by Huw? Maybe they'll sprout looking like a small Italian motorbike?
Hope this helps US growers- From the University of North Carolina; "Two subspecies are grown. Vicia faba var. major (broad beans) has large seeds, and is grown as a vegetable for human consumption. It can be used in soups, stews, salads and side dishes. Vicia faba var. minor (horse beans or field beans) is grown for feeding livestock." Marjorie Cape Cod MA
Any thoughts on Lupin or Lupini beans? I don't see/hear much about them in the UK but they are great as a cover crop, apparently very good at revitalising soils between yields when in rotation.
Quick question I shredded very soft rotting wet branches 1 inch to 3 inch using my wood chipper. What came out looks like dirt & almost feels like dirt very fine texture. I mixed 2 wheel barrel worth in my 90 gallon worth of ready to use compost almost a month ago. Did I messed up? Can my compost pile be ready by end of March? Thanks
I'm new to gardening, this year will be my first year growing my own food. I've been sourcing seeds from local garden centres to start off with but would love to hear recommendations for smaller, local (I'm UK based) business? Are there any videos about how to source seeds?
My field beans turned up late last year due to germination tests failing at my suppliers, I eventually got them and planted them, surprise surpise they never came up as it was too late and I thought thats it. The recent warm weather however and they have sprung into life and started growing, so surprised they got through the icy period last December, and germinated in January...Steve...🙂
I can not find field beans online. Have tried searching alternate names and came up with field peas but they do not look like your plants. Are they just in the uk? I’m in texas.
In Portugal I can't find the field bean seed, they are the same species that broad beans, as you know, Vicia faba, but there must be the name of the variety of the field bean on the package of your field bean. Can you give me that name?
I would like to give field beans a try but whenever I translate field beans and also broad beans google shows me the same type of beans for my country lol 😅.
As a kid, I recall that instead of black eyed peas, my Dad grew what they called field peas. They looked very much the same and, as far as I could tell, tasted no different at all.
Those are varieties of cow peas, which grow well in very hot weather. Vigna unguiculata. Completely delicious, no need to soak before cooking, and with fewer oxalates, and more digestible. There are many varieties available, most without the black eyes.
All I'd ever heard of in the US were bush or pole beans so I looked it up and it said in American English broad beans are called fava beans which I've heard of.
Seems one issue is that many stores don't differentiate between broad beans and field beans. If I understand this right, black, pinto, fava, and kidney beans are all field beans?
No. The term field beans is too widely applied! Fava beans and those related field beans are one species (see Huw's pinned comment) but pinto, black, and kidney are all "common beans" phaseolus vulgaris, and cow peas (which are sometimes called field peas) are vigna unguiculata. Common beans and lima beans (phaseolus lunatus) sold as shelling beans (fully grown beans in the pod but not yet dried) are sometimes called field beans. It's very confusing, but in this case it's really most helpful to know and use the species and/or variety names. These beans have widely different temperature and climate needs, so you are not likely to be growing favas in the same time and place as cowpeas or borlotti shelling beans.
I have never seen beans (seed or pod) like this before? Or even broad beans. When I ask about the broad beans, am told they are lima beans? Is this right? Am in northeastern U.S.A.
@@karenholsopple6388 Thank you! Do they look the same as what he has growing here? Lol, I think I have only seen fava beans in a can! & probably didn’t pay enough attention! ;) Think they sell them as dried beans (that could be planted) in the supermarket? Hmm, I will have to look into fava beans! Thanks again!
@@sarahbehler5437 I think I remember broad beans as looking the same, but the plants weren't quite as tall. You can also find fava beans frozen in larger stores. Honestly, broad beans weren't my favorite when we lived in England, so I haven't really gotten them here.
Fava beans can be dangerous. (beans in general, but a few types, more than others) Digestion issues and even favism. There is a reason some foods are not as popular as they used to be. Be safe and learn.
@@geraldfriend256 Favism (G6PD deficiency). Favism is an inherited disease in which a person lacks an enzyme called glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD). When these people eat fava beans, they develop a condition called hemolytic anemia. This anemia causes red blood cells to break apart and block blood vessels.
hi is someone can tell me what is the vernacullar name for field beans because when i try to translate in french it say field beans = broad beans...... or better the name in french^^ thanks a lot!
Bonjour, d'après mes propres recherches (sur la base du nom de la variété testée - Fuego - dans la recherche mise en lien par Huw), le nom en français est "féverole". Source: www.samensteffen.ch/fr_pdf/info_2020_fr/einzeln/samensteffen_info_2020_de_14_sonnenblumen_ackerbohnen.pdf
@@claribest c'est le mieux que j'ai trouve, mais meme "mon" horticulteur ne sais pas me trouver un equivalent moderne... au pire j'acheterai mes graines en angleterre^^ merci en tout cas! 😄
Just as a 'note to self' Huw, internationally the seed producers and distributors do watch your videos, as well as others in your genera and making notes of recommendations forcefully made which means that the cost to ordinary humans of field beans have, or shortly will, being going up. Just sayin'.
Hope this helps US growers- From the University of North Carolina; "Two subspecies are grown. Vicia faba var. major (broad beans) has large seeds, and is grown as a vegetable for human consumption. It can be used in soups, stews, salads and side dishes. Vicia faba var. minor (horse beans or field beans) is grown for feeding livestock. " Marjorie Cape Cod MA
Some clarification: Field beans and broad beans are the same species (Vicia faba) but different varieties. Field beans most commonly sold as a cover crop. One variety of field bean is Vespa, apparently grown for culinary use but I found no difference in taste to the cheap green manure seeds I bought and grew on to produce beans! ;)
Help, we (in the States) can't figure out what variety you mean. Fava beans, field beans ect. come in pole and bush varieties. We have lima (also known as butter), and beans you dry (white, black, red, navy, pinto ect). Please tell us what varieties are field beans to you. The internet does not know, we tried 🤔.
@@WoWLatinLearners I'm sorry I have 0 experience of looking at field beans from an American perspective. All my info is in the comment: Vicia Faba
How much heat can Vespa beans tolerate?
@@ScrogginHausen They survived and produced during our drought last year and were producing until September
@@HuwRichards I definitely think in the US we call broad beans, "fava beans."
Those pinched-out plant tops are lovely nutty flavoured greens, just lightly steamed.
I made some miso using field beans (not grown by me) and it is the best miso I have ever tested 💚 The next step would be to grow the beans myself.
That’s awesome
Sounds delicious!
It really is so good. Well rounded and nutty. Use a recipe with less salt to preserve the sweetness of the koji. The ratios I used were 2 pounds dry beans, 4 pounds koji and 270 g salt. Aged 2-3 months (due to higher proportion of koji to salt).@Ann moy, @Chili h, @injusticehurley
I usually ferment the cooked field bean grains with yoghurt bacteria, which is delicious too and way better to digest than without fermentation. Especially recomended if you want or have to reduce carbs in your diet! It is a bit tricky to do but works pretty well, when using active wey, enough salt and mustard seeds (very important!). If it should smell bad though, throw it out! Rotten protein can be harmful. You gotta know what you're doing.
The also make a great salad leaf addition grown as a cut and come again microgreen on windowsills through the winter. There a really nice delicate flavour, somewhere between a sunflower microgreen and baby leaf spinach. Definitely worth a go! 👍
Vicia faba has 2 subspecies,
Vicia faba var. major is the Broad Bean sold for human food consumption and Vicia faba var. minor (Hwu's field beans) are used as a cover crop and animal feed.
Marjorie, MA, US
Thankyou
Do you know where we can find field beans seed in the U.S.A.?
@@plkingtonj One place is Healthy Harvesters; they list it as Pigeon Peas, which is yet another(!) common name. Using Pigeon Peas may help in further searches but check carefully, that's the danger of 'common names' lol. Marjorie
Another is Whitwam Organics
@@plkingtonjBotanical Interests sells both types.
Huw, I've given field beans a try on your recommendation. Just eaten the first pick now. They have been a success, high yield,, not much trouble to grow, tasty to eat. I grew broad beans alongside (50% over wintered) and the field beans crop is better plus for some reason the wood pigeons have not had a go at them. The plants seem strong and less prone to fold over. So I'm a convert, the cheap seeds are a bonus. Thank you
US: Sandhill Preservation Center may sell them under Shelling Beans/Fava/Bell, as a packet
Territorial Seeds sells them as cover crops by the pound
Surely there are others as well
This is really interesting for me Huw, having lost my broad beans to cold again this winter
I’ve just ordered a pack to try this year, thanks for sharing 👍
Interesting insight to the Field Beans. They are grown here as winter cover crop, but they winter kill once the temp drops to 10Fº or below. As a winter cover crop they do an excellent job of bringing nitrogen into the soil, and then keeping the soil covered throughout the winter with the decomposing winter killed plants. Never thought of growing them in the summer as a food source, but might have to re-think that after watching this video.
Good man. I've just bought 5kg of 'Maris Bead' from Hodmedods to both eat and as seedstock. They're the size of large peas, but will hopefully be one of the mainstays of my self reliance cropping. I've also bought Red Fox and Badger carlin peas for the same. All three make fabulous hummous.
Very useful video sharing friend👍👍
You're very welcome :)
My field beans/fava beans have been in the ground since the autumn and survived the cold winter here in the Midlands. It's a good cover crop but I left mine to grow to fill height last year and we loved the beans. As a cover crop I'm digging in 2 rows this month so that the whole plants feed the soil rather than just the nodules on the roots giving nitrogen to my crops. The tips can be eaten in salads and help to make a bushier plant.
The greens are wonderful to eat as well.
I'm a new fan of ava/field beans too and we grew a huge crop of them last year. We had two varieties, Wizard and Maris Bard. Wizard has slightly larger seeds than Maris Bard, which are really tiny. Both were very productive and tasty, though I found in the very hot weather last summer they stopped producing quite suddenly and all dried on the plants. So we ended up podding and drying them for winter. We harvested many kilos and have been eating both frozen and dried beans all winter. I agree that they produce much heavier crops compared to broad beans, there were many more pods per plant and they grew about 8 feet tall in a bed consisting mainly of well rotted horse manure (we'd grown a fab crop of winter squash the previous year). I sowed some in November last year but sadly the cold snap killed them as I'd only just planted them out when it froze. I'm just about to re-sow them now but I'm not going to do quite so many this year as there's only so many beans two people can eat!
Amazing video! Really very good, I was wondering about that crop for a while. Thank you very much
Nice: I already bought as cover crop and will certainly be following through with this advice, thanks Huw
For crop rotation what could be planted next? (Or what should never be planted after these?).
Hope this helps US growers-
Two subspecies are grown. Vicia faba var. major (broad beans) has large seeds, and is grown as a vegetable for human consumption. It can be used in soups, stews, salads and side dishes. Vicia faba var. minor (horse beans or field beans) is grown for feeding livestock.
I planted three staggered crops last year, all coming up before December and then that freeze came over the U.K. the sowing I did first and were tallest suffered the most and have never really recovered. Of course, this may be because I harvested the tops before that for dinner or they were leggy enough to be more vulnerable (even in the sunniest spots, the sun doesn’t shine enough in the winter). The other two beds were fine throughout all the frosts, although more or less stopped growing. These were all planted mostly as a cover crop and I plan to plant some in another bed that needs rest probably until autumn. However, I may leave the smallest bed to flower and crop.
Thank you for great information on your videos. I can not find any here in the U.S. The cover crops are mostly field peas, clover and some fava beans, winter rye,,bummer. Can you please sell me some thru your website?
Never heard of field beans before so may have to give these a go!
Right, off to buy some new seeds then I guess.
The only place I can find these to buy is on eBay and there are literally only two sellers. The ones I bought ("green manure") look TOTALLY different from the ones grown in this video - they look like small brown peas, and aren't bean shaped at all. I don't know whether there are different varieties of field bean... the seller doesn't specify a variety... but I'm a bit suspicious. Might mine be the Vespa variety mentioned in the pinned clarification by Huw? Maybe they'll sprout looking like a small Italian motorbike?
I love Field Beans I grew up in the South and Field Beans are So Good and they’re different types and the taste very
Hope this helps US growers-
From the University of North Carolina;
"Two subspecies are grown. Vicia faba var. major (broad beans) has large seeds, and is grown as a vegetable for human consumption. It can be used in soups, stews, salads and side dishes. Vicia faba var. minor (horse beans or field beans) is grown for feeding livestock."
Marjorie Cape Cod MA
Yes, I need to grow this. I did plant some in the fall but not sure if it survived yet. zone 7a here.
Any thoughts on Lupin or Lupini beans? I don't see/hear much about them in the UK but they are great as a cover crop, apparently very good at revitalising soils between yields when in rotation.
the one variety of field bean i have eaten was quite bitter. but there are varieties without tannins, i just need to find seed
ne kadar güzel bahçeniz var çok hoşuma gitti mükemmel türkiyeden sevgiler selamlar😊
Great video! Please, when do you harvest field beans? When they are green or brown and dry like runner beans?
Quick question
I shredded very soft rotting wet branches 1 inch to 3 inch using my wood chipper. What came out looks like dirt & almost feels like dirt very fine texture. I mixed 2 wheel barrel worth in my 90 gallon worth of ready to use compost almost a month ago. Did I messed up? Can my compost pile be ready by end of March? Thanks
Google suggests that field beans are mainly grown for green manuring - but you eat them!
Please suggest the best varieties for the table.
Black eyed peas/cowpeas should serve a similar purpose, especially if you have red clay soil
thanks huw you answered my question i was about to ask i bought some field beans they said for green manure i want them to eat
I'm new to gardening, this year will be my first year growing my own food. I've been sourcing seeds from local garden centres to start off with but would love to hear recommendations for smaller, local (I'm UK based) business? Are there any videos about how to source seeds?
Premier seeds direct, based in my home town Wilton, Wiltshire
Definitely going to try these - maybe next year once I've used up all my broad beans 🤣
Got some Real Seeds Vespa Field Beans that I've over wintered in the garden. They even survived that cold snap at -9 lol
Great idea Hugh
Which ones are tasty to consume broad beans or field beans?
My field beans turned up late last year due to germination tests failing at my suppliers, I eventually got them and planted them, surprise surpise they never came up as it was too late and I thought thats it. The recent warm weather however and they have sprung into life and started growing, so surprised they got through the icy period last December, and germinated in January...Steve...🙂
I can not find field beans online. Have tried searching alternate names and came up with field peas but they do not look like your plants. Are they just in the uk? I’m in texas.
How do you eat them? I’ve never heard of either to be honest
In Portugal I can't find the field bean seed, they are the same species that broad beans, as you know, Vicia faba, but there must be the name of the variety of the field bean on the package of your field bean. Can you give me that name?
Buying some today!
Will definitely be giving these a try! 😊
I would like to give field beans a try but whenever I translate field beans and also broad beans google shows me the same type of beans for my country lol 😅.
try searching for "cover crop bean" may be that will help,
@@Angie_P Thank you 🙂
Food for thought.
Not completely Hardy the -10C in December flattened my earliest sowing tho later ones survived. But its just a cover crop for me.
As a kid, I recall that instead of black eyed peas, my Dad grew what they called field peas. They looked very much the same and, as far as I could tell, tasted no different at all.
I got a feeling that they are something different as these do not have any black eyes...
Those are varieties of cow peas, which grow well in very hot weather. Vigna unguiculata. Completely delicious, no need to soak before cooking, and with fewer oxalates, and more digestible. There are many varieties available, most without the black eyes.
I live in the U.S.A, in hot Georgia, can you suggest a variety that will work best for me? I am in zone 7b, 8a, thank you.❤
It seems "field bean" is a British term, and even then it's not all that clear what varieties are considered field beans, other than fava beans.
Even when I set my VPN to the UK and do a search, a lot of their sites categorize beans as 'spring' or 'winter'.
@@ScrogginHausen can you say,” confusing” lol 😝
Do you open the green pods and just use the brand inside? Meaning: not use like a green bean and include the pod ?
Where did you get the seeds for these field beans
All I'd ever heard of in the US were bush or pole beans so I looked it up and it said in American English broad beans are called fava beans which I've heard of.
Seems one issue is that many stores don't differentiate between broad beans and field beans. If I understand this right, black, pinto, fava, and kidney beans are all field beans?
No. The term field beans is too widely applied! Fava beans and those related field beans are one species (see Huw's pinned comment) but pinto, black, and kidney are all "common beans" phaseolus vulgaris, and cow peas (which are sometimes called field peas) are vigna unguiculata. Common beans and lima beans (phaseolus lunatus) sold as shelling beans (fully grown beans in the pod but not yet dried) are sometimes called field beans. It's very confusing, but in this case it's really most helpful to know and use the species and/or variety names. These beans have widely different temperature and climate needs, so you are not likely to be growing favas in the same time and place as cowpeas or borlotti shelling beans.
For people in the States, try Outside Pride as a source.
I have field beans growingxx
When I was a child seventy years ago there were fields of these beans we were told they are not nice for people to eat!
Every time i try to buy field beans, I'm sent broad beans. Where can i buy them please?
I grew fava beans one time and it was the only thing in my garden covered in aphids. Same problem with these?
Pinch the tops out. Then cook them.
@@appledjerry good idea!
Where is the best place to buy the field bean seeds from? xx
Just ordered mine from Premier Seeds Direct, best price I could find and cheap delivery :)
Huw, do you think field beans could be a good source of food for chickens?
Definitely! Better than soy lol
I have never seen beans (seed or pod) like this before? Or even broad beans. When I ask about the broad beans, am told they are lima beans? Is this right? Am in northeastern U.S.A.
In the US we call "broad beans" fava beans.
@@karenholsopple6388 Thank you! Do they look the same as what he has growing here? Lol, I think I have only seen fava beans in a can! & probably didn’t pay enough attention! ;) Think they sell them as dried beans (that could be planted) in the supermarket? Hmm, I will have to look into fava beans! Thanks again!
@@sarahbehler5437 I think I remember broad beans as looking the same, but the plants weren't quite as tall. You can also find fava beans frozen in larger stores. Honestly, broad beans weren't my favorite when we lived in England, so I haven't really gotten them here.
Fava beans can be dangerous. (beans in general, but a few types, more than others)
Digestion issues and even favism.
There is a reason some foods are not as popular as they used to be.
Be safe and learn.
Favism?
@@geraldfriend256 Favism (G6PD deficiency). Favism is an inherited disease in which a person lacks an enzyme called glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD). When these people eat fava beans, they develop a condition called hemolytic anemia. This anemia causes red blood cells to break apart and block blood vessels.
Can we keep some of the harvest for seeds?
Of course!
Thank you! 😊
Have tried to add a comment to explain what the correct bean is in the US. Site won't put up comment.
mine are germinating in the house right now... the first batch of the year I mean
Anybody know if these need to be double podded like broad beans?
Are field beans a bush or pole variety?
bush.
What are field beans? If I Google them it comes up with broad beans
Please see my pinned comment
hi is someone can tell me what is the vernacullar name for field beans because when i try to translate in french it say field beans = broad beans...... or better the name in french^^ thanks a lot!
Bonjour, d'après mes propres recherches (sur la base du nom de la variété testée - Fuego - dans la recherche mise en lien par Huw), le nom en français est "féverole". Source: www.samensteffen.ch/fr_pdf/info_2020_fr/einzeln/samensteffen_info_2020_de_14_sonnenblumen_ackerbohnen.pdf
@@claribest c'est le mieux que j'ai trouve, mais meme "mon" horticulteur ne sais pas me trouver un equivalent moderne... au pire j'acheterai mes graines en angleterre^^ merci en tout cas! 😄
Whoop!
What's your favorite movie to watch while splitting your fava beans? Wink, wink...
Just as a 'note to self' Huw, internationally the seed producers and distributors do watch your videos, as well as others in your genera and making notes of recommendations forcefully made which means that the cost to ordinary humans of field beans have, or shortly will, being going up. Just sayin'.
First ❤
Hope this helps US growers-
From the University of North Carolina;
"Two subspecies are grown. Vicia faba var. major (broad beans) has large seeds, and is grown as a vegetable for human consumption. It can be used in soups, stews, salads and side dishes. Vicia faba var. minor (horse beans or field beans) is grown for feeding livestock. "
Marjorie Cape Cod MA