Fabulous Fava Beans – a slide show

Half-fill a bucket with Fava beans

Add water to the bucket to cover the beans

Quickly drain off the water leaving the fava beans wet but not soaked

Ideally do this while balancing a fava bean on your top lip

Bacterial Inoculant, purchased from the Farmers Co-op

Add a couple of tablespoons full and stir in well

Weed your planting bed well

Fava beans get jammed up in the Earthway seeder so make 2 furrows using a long handled E-Z digger

Place the fava beans into the furrows at a 6 inch spacing

Cover the seed using the E-Z digger

Celebrate having planted exactly 1234 row foot of fava beans!

Three weeks later and they are up