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Fava Bean harvest

harvested by auwillia · 2015-06-27

My husband says the fava beans are ready when the pod starts to hang down instead of sticking straight out. All the plants were falling over, so we harvested all of them in one go. Possibly they got too much water. This happened last year too, though, and this year has been much hotter earlier in the year. A lot of the beans were already starting to dry in the pods this year.

Plant part

pod

Harvested

over 11 years ago 2015-06-27

Quantity

200, weighing 6 lb

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Crop

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Fava Bean

Vicia faba

  • 17 plantings
  • 6 harvests
  • An annual, living about 140 days
  • First harvest about 199 days after planting
  • Usually grown in sun

Nutritional data

A summary of nutritional data per 100g for Bean, broad, fresh, raw.

Energy 235.0 kJ
Protein 6.9 g
Fat, total 0.5 g
Carbohydrate 2.2 g
- Sugars 0.7 g
Fibre 7.1 g
Sodium 4.0 mg