Vicia faba or the Broad Bean is an easy to grow veggie crop that will produce an abundance of those healthy and tasty beans.
The plant has thick and sturdy stems that hold coarse grey-green leaves.
The white, pea-like flowers have a blackish blotch in their center and they precede the valuable seedpods.
The pods are light green with a downy surface and they can be picked when about 6cms long and eaten whole, or they can be left to mature at which stage you eat the seeds within the pod only.