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Fava beans! Easy to grow, fun to watch, nice flowers, tasty, and big nitrogen nodules.

• reificator 8y ago
  Plus they pair well with a nice chianti.
  • aetherson 8y ago
    I feel like this pairing lacks a protein to really balance it out.
    • Rhinobird 8y ago
      Perhaps a sweetbread of some sort?
    • exolymph 8y ago
      Fava beans have a fair amount of protein in 'em already!
• DmenshunlAnlsis 8y ago
  Although it’s worth pointing out that about 1 in 10 people suffer from Favism (1),which is sort of rough. 1. Glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency, leading to hemolytic anemia.
• steve_adams_86 8y ago
  A fun thing about them (in the PNW at least) is that you can plant piles of them in fall and they will grow with very little assistance (or watering since it rains so much) and you'll have heaps upon heaps of beans in spring. I planted $10 of Windsor beans 2 years ago and ended up drying about 300-400 seeds (far more than $10 worth) and still had too many to eat. Some of my new son's first solid food was a hummus made from those same dried beans (really delicious!). Such a fun plant to grow. Processing the beans is a bit of work, but wow, it's worth it. Unparalleled flavour in the bean kingdom.
• WrtCdEvrydy 8y ago
  Where do you buy some? There's a little playground behind my building with a few trees and I'd love to add some plants and see them grow eventually.