Bean and pea update: favas and much more

We are still celebrating the Year of Beans and Peas at the Derwood Demo Garden. Peas were slow to get going due to early cold tem…

Fall and spring-sown fava beans

Fava beans are a Mediterranean crop that can be difficult to grow in our climate of wide temperature swings in springtime - "…

Pre sprouting and planting fava/broad beans and sugar snap peas

Earlier this week, I looked at the 7 day weather forecast and saw that temperatures were forecast to return to seasonal averages.…