Solar🌄GardenI sprout lentils in 500 g batches on an almost continuous basis, as a staple food here: super-easy and fast to germinate and deal with as a food, but I've never wanted to try them as a crop, bcs of weed control and harvesting. Assumed some kind of mechanical processing would be essential for useful #growYourOwn quantities, which I just haven't got time for, esp as good quality commercial grown are so cheap.
Favas, OTOH, I grow everywhere, from improving poor soil areas (any crop yield incidental) to premium food. Compare - dry commercial lentils 2.30€/kg, yielding well over 2 kg sprouted :cf: fresh favas in pods 3€/kg, bean yield 0.3-0.4 kg... frozen commercial are better value but not as nice as own, which I freeze too.
this last winter, the conveyer-belt of named storms and non-stop rain injured then rotted a large proportion of my over-winterers, with temperatures well above freezing... but still enough coming back for a good crop, and pods presently 10-20cm