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[seedkeeping]

Crimson Flowered Fava is an English heirloom broad bean that was first documented in 1778 and then saved from near extinction exactly 200 years later when Rhoda Catbush shared her last four seeds with the Henry Doubleday Research Association and eventually a fleet of volunteer growers. Crossing fingers we will have enough seed harvest this year to share through Truelove Seeds! #crimsonflowered #crimsonfloweredbroadbean #crimsonfloweringbroadbeans #crimsonfloweringfava #heirloomfavas #viciafaba #seedkeeping https://www.instagram.com/p/Bx0wKCQFiTQ/?igshid=eq2r6luv34em

[seedkeeping]

Crimson Flowering Fava bean, an English heirloom with a gorgeous scented flower, was first documented in 1778 and then saved from near extinction exactly 200 years later when Rhoda Catbush shared her last four seeds with the Henry Doubleday Research Association and eventually a fleet of volunteer growers. #crimsonfloweredbroadbean #crimsonfloweredfava #viciafaba #heirloomfavas (at Delaware County, Pennsylvania)

[seedkeeping]

Thinking through the math of seed increase...I planted 385 Crimson Flowering Fava seeds, which germinated great, if late, and grew and flowered beautifully, but did not set many pods. On this upper tray, you see exactly twice the original seed (770) and then smaller, probably less viable seeds on the lower tray. Not a very impressive increase. The largest pile nearest the barn window is 400 seeds, which is the minimum amount I'd need to send to the labs for germination testing. Next winter, it seems I'd need to plant at least all of my good seed from this year to get at least 400 seeds to share next year after I set aside my stock seed and my germ test seed. BUT maybe the plants will be much more productive as they adapt more to my field (they came from England last year, where they are an important heirloom). Anyways...I hope I can share these tasty beauties soon! But they won't be in the catalogue for 2018. #crimsonfloweredbroadbean #crimsonfloweredfava #fava #viciafaba #seedincrease (at Delaware County, Pennsylvania)

[seedkeeping]

Crimson Flowering Fava (Vicia faba) just past its prime, from above. If only you could scratch and sniff this photo - it smells so sweet that I was tempted to eat every flower on the spot. This is the English heirloom broad bean I posted about a few weeks ago that was first documented in 1778 and then saved from near extinction exactly 200 years later when Rhoda Catbush shared her last four seeds with the Henry Doubleday Research Association and eventually a fleet of volunteer growers. #crimsonfloweringbroadbeans #crimsonfloweredfava #crimsonflower #viciafaba #favabeans #broadbeans #seedkeeping #edibleflowers #scratchandsniff (at Newtown Square, Pennsylvania)

[seedkeeping]

Rhoda Catbush had four remaining seeds of Crimson Flowering Broad Bean in 1978, exactly two hundred years after it was first documented in Mawe and Abercrombie's "Every Man His Own Gardener". She'd been growing the gorgeous variety for many years, just as her father had since before World War One. She lost her crop that year and gave the last four seeds to the Henry Doubleday Research Association who helped revive the English heirloom with the help of volunteer growers. I know this plant from my time with William Woys Weaver and his Roughwood Seed Collection. We never got enough to eat, but this year I ordered seeds from England and hope to both eat this beauty, and have seed to share. I've already tried the flowers and leaves and they are tasty! #crimsonfloweredbroadbean #crimsonfloweringfava #crimsonfloweredfava #crimsonfloweringbroadbeans #viciafaba #fava #broadbean #favaflowers #favabeans #catbush #henrydoubleday #henrydoubledayresearchassociation #seedsaving #seedkeeping (at Newtown Square, Pennsylvania)

[seedkeeping]

I ordered and planted 400 Crimson Flowering Fava Beans and one is albino. It would make a very striking plant when flowering! But I'm not sure it has enough chlorophyll to make the sun-food it needs to make it that far. Fingers crossed! #crimsonfloweredbroadbean #crimsonfloweredfava #viciafaba #favabeans #albinoplant (at Newtown Square, Pennsylvania)

[sei5517]

#ソラマメ #空豆 #broadbean #Viciafaba #寿司 #すし #鮨 #Sushi (Tokyo, Japan) https://www.instagram.com/p/B9HBA0CDCg7/?igshid=bbga664t3qkd

[menikmati]

My broad beans made it in four months from seed to plate #viciafaba