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Re: Fava beans (with a little kee-ant-tee)

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Wow, you make an ex-New Yorker (and Italian to boot) like myself homesick. I
even sought out an Italian specialty store this past holiday season to buy
"lupini", which are fava beans in a jar which are eaten as part of an
antipasto. I'm not sure what kind of fava beans you got (there are different
types and varieties) but I grow Banner. Banner has a more rounded seed but I
have seen the ones you describe also. They are often used as a cover crop
because they fix nitrogen in the soil. They also produce beautiful purple
flowers and pods filled with beans. They are more bush than vine like but
much larger than bush beans. I plant in the late fall and overwinter them.
They get big, 4-6 feet. My biggest ones are about two feet right now, they
are about 4-6 inches apart. At this spacing they will be a wall of green. I
interspersed some tall snow peas in with them in early spring and hope the
peas climb up them.
Tom
Portland OR,  Zone 8
http://www.teleport.com/~scut/garden.htm
-----Original Message-----
From: Steven Davidoff <sdavidof@optonline.net>

>
>I had a wonderful afternoon with my Sis wandering around Soho, dining on
>dim sum on Mott street and walking up to Hester into little Italy where
>we entered a beautiful old deli, it was like walking into another era.
>There were bins and bins of the most fabulous dried beans, one of the
>bins was filled with beans larger than limas, almost the size of a
>quarter, and with a dark stripe running along the edge. I bought a
>quarter pound of them for 65¢. The man at the counter said that they
>were fava beans, which I have never seen before.
>
>They look "viable" and so I will give them a try in my garden. What I
>need to know is are they are vine beans or bush beans, I imagine that
>they have the same growth requirements as regular beans. Does anyone
>have experience with these beans, they certainly will make a delicious
>meal cooked fresh if I can grow them.


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