Quick facts
- Extra cold and heat tolerant
- Rare
- Large yellow and green seeds
Vicia faba
80 days. Large seeded, rare fava bean that does particularly well in the heat and cold. Beautiful tan-green seeds. Eat pods fresh or wait for dry seeds and eat them as a dry bean. Fava beans, or broad beans, are the hardiest member of the bean family. They can handle temps as low as 15 degrees F.
How to grow it:
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Germ Temp
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Indoor Start
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Germ Days
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Frost Tolerant
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Sun
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Seed Depth
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Plant/Row Spacing
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60-65
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1-2 weeks
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6-30 d.
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Yes
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Afternoon shade to full sun
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2”
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12”/18”
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Plant during a break in the weather in early- late March. Plant 2.5" deep, thin to 1' apart, with rows 18" apart. May take up to 3 weeks to emerge. Likes water, do not under-water as the weather warms up. Tolerates and even prefers light shade for a period of the day in midsummer. Harvest dry seed pods in late summer into a bag. Free seeds by beating the bag, use a fan to separate light chaff from heavy beans.
In climates where winter temperatures do not dip below 15 degrees F, planting in fall is preferable.
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Packet size: 20 seeds
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