Broad beans are considered one of the easiest vegetables to grow and one of the best crops to try if you want to start a small vegetable garden in the new year.

Now ending its rule of the garden: the fava bean. A staple food of the ancient Greeks and Romans, the fava bean has been grown for generations by American gardeners of Mediterranean extraction ...

Treat your seeds with a legume inoculant specifically formulated for fava beans. Sow them now for a late-fall harvest, or in late summer to November for early-spring picking.

Starting seeds inside isn't hard -- so long as you know the basics. Here are 10 mistakes to avoid.

I pounced on a packet of that. The other aspect of visiting these big-box racks is that the seeds seem awfully cheap to someone who routinely buys too many seed packs during the course of the year.

I was looking over my leftover packets of seed and noticed the following stamped on the packets: packed for 2022, sell by 2022-10-31. Does this mean that these seeds will have expired by planting t… ...

Which? Gardening experts reveal how to grow your own broad beans and the best varieties. We explain when to sow and harvest broad beans, plus tips on how to prevent common growing problems.

Usually at least 50 years old, heirloom seed varieties offer multiple benefits, and they don’t require special equipment or growing conditions to flourish.

Broad beans are often grown from seeds in autumn to secure an early harvest at the start of summer, though this versatile vegetable will do just as well in the garden when sown in winter.

It is surprising that the structure and germination of this seed, so extensively used in elementary botanical teaching, should be so frequently misunderstood by teachers and wrongly described in ...