Sweet Lorane Fava Bean

Vicia faba

Small seeded fava beans are typically sown only as a cover crop but Sweet Lorane does double duty as an edible soil builder. It will both add nitrogen to your soil and offer up a harvest of the fresh or dry beans suitable for eating the following Summer!   Aphids can be an issue as the weather warms in July so keep a look out and spray them off with a hose.  Fresh beans can be eaten when the pods are green and beans are firm.  The dry beans can then be cooked and used as you would dry beans.  

Growing Fava Beans

Direct Sow in late October or early February to get them going in cool weather.  Leave them to grow and fix nitrogen and feed your soil microbiome until mid July when the plants have dried down and the fava beans are dry in the pods.  

120+ days to maturity 

Packet 1 oz ~ 60 seeds