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Posted by Sunset, June 19, 2009 in Edibles

By Sharon Cohoon, Sunset senior garden writer

6a00d834cdafac69e201157120df42970b-500wi-1 Johanna Silver, Sunset's test garden coordinator, writes about her experience growing garbanzo beans  on Our One Block Diet blog. It's her first time -- it would be mine, too -- and she is soliciting feedback. 

Take a look and add your expertise.

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I have no expertise but I did grow them for the first time last winter. They were a fascinating crop. The flowers eerily beautiful, the crop plentiful and no problem.
The confusion came with the crop. How small do they have to be to eat in the pod, to what size to eat like limas and when do you have to start peeling the bean itself. And is favism a real problem? I saved a lot of seeds and will do it again this winter. Oh, yes, just recently I discovered I was supposed to pinch them; I didn't.

Posted by:Patricia | June 23, 2009 at 06:37 AM

I have planted them for the first time this year quite by accident. Not sure when to harvest.

What is favism?

Posted by:barbara | July 02, 2009 at 07:31 PM

Favism is an allergic reaction, potentially fatal, some people have to the beans. It mostly occurs to people of Mediterranean descent and males are more susceptible than females.

Posted by:sharon | July 02, 2009 at 07:55 PM

Simple but very informative. one can learn from your bean experience.

Posted by:growing beans | April 19, 2011 at 08:45 AM

FRIED Falafel balls added to hot homemade broth or thin soups at end of the simmer is the most delicious food you can put in your mouth. You can
make 70 FALFAFEL balls, (vegan meatballs basically,) freeze them in bags, take out what's needed for tonight's soup. Trader Joes has them frozen in a bag. I dropped a few in a bowl of hot soup and was surprised that when heated, it suddenly became so extremely yummy. Treat frozen falafels like albondigas, that Mexican beef meatball soup. Save your
broth from good, local chicken, nothing shipped in ‘old’ from Arkansas…or make an oriental fish broth or vegie broth, and drop these
vege CICCI bean balls into your soup! If you could make a product, involving a plastic bag with 20 meatballs, sell them thru local food boutiques for Vege Meat balls encouraging their use in Hot Soup, you would build an EMPIRE. RECIPES HERE: http://www.masterjules.net/FALAFEL.htm
http://www.luckinlove.com/garbanzo.htm

Posted by:anita sands hernandez | October 15, 2011 at 12:44 AM
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