This is the kind of salad I make after I’ve pruned a row of fava bean plants. Now that you know you can actually eat them, fava greens make an excellent salad…
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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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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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When I think of spring, I think of this salad. Fresh, green, earthy, full of life. Luckily for us southern climates, winter tends to feel like spring most days, so I’ve had…
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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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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…
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It seemed like only yesterday that my Golden Sweet snow peas were thriving and producing handfuls of bright, translucent yellow pods that intertwined up my six-foot trellis. And then today, the vines…
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I don’t know why, but I rarely buy snow peas at the store, even though I love the extra snap they give to stir-fries and salads. Maybe it’s because all the stores…