A guide to 7 vegetables to plant in February in a cold frame or beneath cloches for the first homegrown harvests of the year, ...

Fava beans are a cool-season, fast-growing annual and the only cold-hardy bean. As fava beans are cold hardy, seed can be sown in the garden now; fava beans can also be a fall-planted crop that will ...

Question: I planted fava beans for the first time last fall. Now they are almost 3 feet tall and have giant pods near the bottom and younger pods up the stem. When is the best time to harvest them?

Question: I am confused about differences in fava bean varieties. What is the difference between fava beans grown for a cover crop and fava beans/broadbeans grown for culinary purposes? Can I grow the ...