Aside from growing fava beans for their rich and edible seeds and leaves, you can also grow them as cover crops for your garden.
To speed up the germination and growth of fava beans, you should soak them in clean, unchlorinated water for 12-24 hours.
Planting them early will help them to get a great root structure and even be mature enough to be tilled into the soil in early or mid-winter.
Organic fertilizer do not just enrich the soil; they also provide some decomposing fungi that can speed up the decomposition of the fava beans.
Fava beans, like other types of beans, are legumes and they add nitrogen to the soil with the help of nitrogen-fixing bacteria in their roots.
Benefits and Uses of Fava Beans as Cover Crops