Fava Windsor Bean

Windsor fava beans produce large beans in pods that contain up to 6 beans. Overall yields on this English favourite is very good.

Fava Beans grows during winter and apart from being used in cooking, especially as an addition to stews, improves your soil like no other legume!. The amount of nitrogen that Fava Beans puts in your soil is extremely high.  When you do a follow up planting in soil where fava beans has grown you do not have to add anything for the plants. Fava beans produce enough nitrogen to satisfy even the heaviest of feeders like corn and cabage. Do not pull fava bean plants from the soil. Chop them to keep the roots around, which the nitrogen forms, in tact.

Fava Beans don’t need staking. Plants can reach up to 1.2 meters.

Approximately 25 seeds

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