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@adam any input on this?
Adam@justin @scandigonian Favas are my personal favorite legume for the westside; they're tall, compete well with weeds, can be planted in fall as a dual cover crop/legume crop. (their winter limit is ~15F/-9C, but varies by variety). The leaves are great for salad. Seeds can be harvested green as a veggie, or left to mature for dry beans.
The large beans mean they are easy to harvest; you can thresh a lot of beans quickly. Tons of flowers for the bees. The beans make great hummus too. (3/3)
@scandigonian As luck would have it, it looks like I took a picture of the lentils!. I was off at grad school and so this was at my folks place in the Chehalis Valley. So they admittedly didn't get much weeding at all. They kind of look like sweet peas or vetch. Think I got the variety from WSU's Foundation Seed Program.
If I recall right, I came back to a giant patch of smartweed. But a lot of my other tests pulled through great (bread wheat, pasta/durum wheat, oca, mashua, hulless oats)
SolaršGarden@scandigonian @adam - they look a bit like chick-peas, another shoppy-cheapy, that I've grown for fun/experiment tho. I bundled the whole dry plants in sacks, and hung them, rattled them a bit, and many of the seeds fell to the bottom. The rest of the bag got strewn whole for new crop. Maybe this would work with lentils too? But separating the bits and pieces from the small lentils seems like a challenge.