Nutty Fava Greens Sautéed So Good

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Did you ever eat Fava Bean Greens? If you like spinach or other greens and haven’t tried them yet, you definitely should!

Three Week Old Fava Bean Plants
Three Week Old Fava Bean Plants

This autumn was the first time we planted fava beans in the garden. They’re supposed to make for a nice cover crop, being a legume and all. Legumes of all kinds are nice to the soil because they add nitrogen to it. Nature’s kind of fertilizer.

Beans that were planted in October sprouted and grew 3-4 leaf sets before

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Fava Beans Reach For The Sky, Jack

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Not too many crops grow fast in the peak of autumn. Most plants are developing roots then, not their aerial parts.

Fava Bean Plants About 3 Weeks Old
Fava Bean Plants About 3 Weeks Old

So, there might be an exception in the fava bean. It might be growing a lot of roots too, but the greenery actually grew very fast in the cool fall weather.

Now I see how that Jack-in-the-Beanstalk story got started. These broad beans grow

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