A 30—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, July 19,1980 Gardening is it really worth all of theeffort? For anyone who’s planted, weeded, and harvested a garden, I’m sure that question has run through their minds every tune they spend a hot, sweaty af ternoon pulling weeds or picking beans. And, by the tune all the canning and freezing is finished and the surplus vegetables have been peddled off to those ‘unlucky’ folks who didn’t undertake the challenge of gardening, many of us aren’t sure we can enthusiastically say ‘yes’ But, nothing beats the taste of fresh, vegetables on the dinner plate, and those canned and frozen goodies sure add a feeling of summer to a cold winter meal Besides, a garden lets people plant things they would probably never buy to eat m-a store, Luxury foods, like watermelon and con teloupe, and other more unusual foods like kale and eggplant, are a challenge for the gardner to grow and the cook to prepare This week my column’s questions deal with garden vegetables Do me a Fava Once again, Roland G Kamoda of R 1 Monongahela has given me a question that took some digging to answer He writes Fava beans how are these beans used or cooked? They ae not listed in garden books. Where did they originate? The first time I planted them as a bush bean. After digging through several recipe books the encyclopedia, a number of gardening and agricultural references, I came up with one fat zero. With one last recipe book, the Lilly Wallace New American Cook Book, to look through, I flipped to the index and was amazed to Please send me color catalog on the Cherokee horse stock trailers and GN (latbeds Please send me literature on Sdo-Matic Feeding Systems NAME ADDRESS CITY PHONE Brief answers to short questions Sheila's Shorts By Sheila Miller find a listing of Faba or Fava beans Almost gleefully I turned to page 405 and read; “The same factors that constitue quality in the lima, and the same factors of condition, should be looked for when buying these bcdns * * That’s it? I couldn’t believe they didn’t even tell me how to cook ‘em. And none of the bean recipes in the book called for Faba/Fava beans. All I learned was that if I wanted to buy the bean, I should look for unshelled pods that are well-filled, clean, bright, fresh and dark green. The shelled bean should also be plump, ten der-skinned, with good green or greenish white color. Wondering why I would ever want to buy the bean if I couldn’t figure out how to cook them, I turned to my mom’s seed catalogues In Burpee’s 1980 catalogue, bush Fava beans are sold after the lima beans, chickpeas and soybeans They refer to the beam as English broadbean In describing the bean, Burpee savs thev have a long Lebanon youths LEBANON - Sue Bom berger, Annville, and Bruce Hellenck, Lebanon, are scheduled to meet with Senator Schweiker this Wednesdav as part of their 4- H Citizenship-Washington Focus Activities Sue and Bruce’s meeting with Schweiker is part of their day on Capitol Hill Other activities for the day include Senate observation and a tour of the FBI arranged by Senator Heinz The two 4-H members are in the midst of a busy week of touring Washington sites, as well as exploring pod They niciuirt; in 85 days and are much hardier than other beans They say they are a ‘ successful substitute for lima beans in the North where the growing season is short ” The beans are recom mended to be planed as early in Spring as the soil can be worked. They don’t thrive in Summer heat. As far as the edibility of the bean is concerned, Burpee says the glossy, green pods are inedible. The 7 mch long pod con tains “5 to 7 large, oblong, flat, light green beans for use as green shell beans like hmas ” Burpee warns that some people of Mediterranean descent have a genetic trait which causes a severe allergic reaction to Fava beans. From this information, Mr. Kamoda, I have to assume the Fava bean can be used as a lima bean would be cooked and used. Maybe some Lancaster Farming readers will share some recipes with you. Where to pick-my-own? Ann Fowler of Claymont, Delaware asks: Please send me in formation brochures regarding pick-yourself-fa rms; or where and when to get best farm produce, particularly string beans. After receiving your request for information brochures, I contacted the Department of Agriculture for Pennsylvania, Delaware and Maryland I very promptly received the brochures from the two states south of the Mason-Dixon line However, I am still meet Schweiker CllUeiiMiip lesponsiDUlties and current issues Workshops and housing are provided at the National 4-H Center with the city of Washington used as a living laboratory Other features of the week mclude an Ideas Fair where the 12 states represented will share 4-h/\ itizenship programs The Pennsylvania delegates will also attend a performance at the Kennedy Center The Lebanon County 4-H Development Fund partially underwrites the cost of participation ZIP STATE awaiting the promised brochure from PDA (Hopefully it will be out before the summer is over). The brochures I received from Delaware and Maryland provided both the pick-your-own type of fruit nd v 'itable market, al A V TURN THE BOBCAT into a backhoe, forklift, grapple, too Does the work of many one-job machines THE BOBCAT comesas narrow as 35 is built low to work in tight areas turns full circle in its own tracks LET US DEMONSTRATE what the Meiroe Bobcat loader can do for you Drop in or call Bobcat—for the new breed of farmer and contractor GRUMELLI’S RHODES FARM SERVICE EQUIPMENT Quarryville PA 17566 1085 Industrial Blvd Ph 717 786 7318 Southampton, PA 18966 RayShowalter7l7 665 7174 Ph 215-677 6000 W f bobcat 2 £>■ NORMAN D. CLARK & SON JJL Honey Grove PA 17035 Ph 717 734 3682 with the roadside market listing. To get your own personal copies of the brochures, write to the following ad dress: —Delaware Department of Agriculture, Drawer D, Dover, DE19901; FIRST AND FOREMOST SKID STEER LOADER —Division of Marketing, Maryland Department of Agriculture, Parole Plaza Office Bldg., Annapolis, MD 21401. —Pennsylvania Depart ment of Agriculture, 2310 North Cameron Street, Harrisburg, PA 17110. EXCAVATE, scarify, rake plow and remove snow, clean barns, sheds, drill postholes Bobcat does it BUY OR RENT a variety of buckets and other attachments Bob-Tach locks them on fast and solid v 7 V 'x' ClflßK
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