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  • From: "Bill Shoemaker" <wshoemak AT inil.com>
  • To: "Market Farming" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Beans
  • Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2003 11:53:29 -0600

I would encourage you to gain a little experience with Fava beans before you
plan to sell them. Their growing requirements are not at all like snap
beans, like Blue Lake. They like conditions more similar to peas than beans,
though not quite as demanding.

Bill Shoemaker
Sr Research Specialist, Food Crops
Univ of Illinois - St Charles Hort Research Center


>I am thinking about experimenting with beans this year. I usually only
grow
>Blue Lake green beans. But I thinking about trying out Fava beans and
>kidney beans. I would like to try and sell them at a market next year but
I
>have never grown anything other than green beans. Any suggestions as to
>growing them and what kind of variety I should choose?
>
>Courtney
>Herb Thyme
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