It is not so easy growing many types of beans as a dried seed, at least in the damp and cool climate in Ireland. So, in order to get a decent amount of storable edible vegetable protein, I grew a big crop of Broad or Fava Beans in the polytunnel.
0:00 Growing Dried Beans
0:56 Broad beans are a better choice for this climat
2:26 Seed Saving in a polytunnel
4:08 Flowering and incomplete pod set
5:35 Growing too tall
7:04 Producing more pods
8:17 Extracting the seeds
9:48 Viable way to produce seed
11:12 Other explorations
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