In hindsight, I should’ve taken a picture of my Three Sisters garden when it was just getting started; I simply hadn’t considered how fast it would grow! This shot is only a…
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Garden of Eatin', How-To, Vegetables, You Can Eat That?!Harvesting and Pruning the Leaves (and Flowers!) From Your Fava Plant
Did you know that the leaves from fava bean plants are edible? How about the flowers? Often with fava beans, I can take ’em or leave ’em. They have a wonderful light,…
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In the winter time, a couple of my garden beds get less sun and stay more soggy so it’s difficult to grow a food crop. I usually let the soil rest at…
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There’s something so majestic about purple beans. The pods are richly colored and easy to spot among the leaves, and they look beautiful tossed into a green salad. I call them magic…
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I admit it — if fava beans weren’t so good for the soil, I likely wouldn’t grow them at all, edible or not. Hidden inside those fat long pods are handfuls of…
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Legumes have long been known to be good for your garden by fixing nitrogen and improving soil fertility. These legumes come in the form of common peas and beans, as well as…
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After an abundant summer, my bush beans have finally bitten the dirt. I harvested the last of the beans — all 15 pounds of my Dragon Tongue, Royal Burgundy, and Beurre de…
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Around this time of year, I always get an overabundance of one particular crop. Last summer, it was zucchini. This summer, it’s beans. Spring rainstorms flooded a few of my bush bean…
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This last summer, I almost thought my Chinese Red Noodle beans (Vigna unguiculata) were done before they even started. They were late to germinate, slow to grow, and the leaves turned an…
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I started pulling some of my fading summer crops the other week, including what was one of my favorite plants of the whole season — the delicious and distinctive Dragon Tongue bush…