Field bean – Organic
6.00$ - 15.00$
A cousin of the fava bean, the fava bean has its origins in ancient Egypt where it is found among the first cultivated plant species. The Greek Pythagoras and his disciples forbade themselves from consuming his beans, because he considered them to be the same material as that intended to shape man. It was said that it served as a place of transmigration of souls and that eating it was equivalent to feasting on the dead. It is said that Pythagoras was overtaken and killed by his enemies because he refused to flee across a field of beans!
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A cousin of the fava bean, the fava bean has its origins in ancient Egypt where it is found among the first cultivated plant species. The Greek Pythagoras and his disciples forbade themselves from consuming his beans, because he considered them to be the same material as that intended to shape man. It was said that it served as a place of transmigration of souls and that eating it was equivalent to feasting on the dead. It is said that Pythagoras was overtaken and killed by his enemies because he refused to flee across a field of beans!
Description
- The fava bean resists the cold well and tolerates poor or clayey soils and high levels of mineral salts.
- Its pods, similar to those of peas, have been part of the human diet for millennia, as a vegetable or in flour.
- They are also popular in animal feed, but the plant itself is a champion for enriching the soil with nitrogen.
- It can be sown as soon as the soil can be worked in April and until the beginning of September, in soil between 1 and 24°C.
- The seeds germinate in just 3 to 6 days.
- It is sown in furrows 2-3 cm deep, leaving ± 10 cm between the plants.
- The plants are returned to the soil as green manure after 30 to 65 days.
- Seeding rate: 250g/12.5m2
- Seeding rate: 1 kg/50 m2
- Seeding rate: 1,5 kg/75 m2
Further information
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