Just planted a second crop of favas yesterday. Had harvested some that were really big , but not very pretty and a couple looked as if they were beginning to sprout in the soggy pods they were in. So, even though it was pouring rain...I went out to places where I had worked up last week and poked them into the wet ground. Every year the weather is so different...you never know when it is a good time to plant. If it stays really hot and gets dry, they won't do well...but if we get sufficient rain, they will actually make beans by December. And, if not beans...at least more tops to tincture for l- dopa. I planned to plant fresh seed in the end of July also where this years crop is now. It all has to be pulled out( or weed-eated ) and tilled up first when the ground dries out again..then I will plant more favas again. I have been able to make more tincture this year than ever before, even with the loss of half the first harvest because of spittlebugs. God is good.
Have a happy and safe 4th of July. God Bless!