{"id":4905,"date":"2011-01-21T02:35:13","date_gmt":"2011-01-21T10:35:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fritzhaeg.com\/wikidiary\/?p=4905"},"modified":"2011-02-07T00:29:21","modified_gmt":"2011-02-07T08:29:21","slug":"on-january-21st-2011-the-flowering-fava-beans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fritzhaeg.com\/archive\/2011\/01\/21\/on-january-21st-2011-the-flowering-fava-beans\/","title":{"rendered":"On January 21st, 2011, THE FLOWERING FAVA BEANS&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_4906\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4906\" style=\"width: 266px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-4906\" href=\"http:\/\/www.fritzhaeg.com\/wikidiary\/2011\/01\/21\/on-january-21st-2011-the-flowering-fava-beans\/2011-01-21-p1180685\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-4906\" title=\"flowering Fava Beans\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fritzhaeg.com\/wikidiary\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/2011-01-21-P1180685-266x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"266\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fritzhaeg.com\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/2011-01-21-P1180685-266x150.jpg 266w, https:\/\/www.fritzhaeg.com\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/2011-01-21-P1180685.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 266px) 100vw, 266px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4906\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">the promising winter flowers of my happy fava bean plants<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&#8230;or <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Vicia_faba\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Vicia faba<\/em><\/a>, are keeping my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fritzhaeg.com\/garden\/initiatives\/edibleestates\/rome.html\" target=\"_blank\">rooftop garden<\/a> spring-like in the middle of a Roman winter &#8211; and since I have never grown them before, it is all new to me &#8211; like the fact that they are often used as a cover crop, excel at fixing nitrogen in the soil, grow to become 2-6 feet tall, do great in cold weather, have those pretty wing-petaled white with black-spot-centered flowers, and here in Italy are typically planted on 2 November, All Souls Day, and harvested in time to be eaten with Pecorino for a traditional <a href=\"http:\/\/intransit.blogs.nytimes.com\/2010\/04\/29\/packing-a-picnic-for-may-day-in-rome\/\" target=\"_blank\">May Day<\/a> picnic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;or Vicia faba, are keeping my rooftop garden spring-like in the middle of a Roman winter &#8211; and since I have never grown them before, it is all\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[20,40],"tags":[731,1723,1730,583,1759],"class_list":["post-4905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-gardens","tag-fava-beans","tag-food","tag-gardens","tag-roman-rooftop","tag-rome"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fritzhaeg.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fritzhaeg.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fritzhaeg.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fritzhaeg.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fritzhaeg.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4905"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/www.fritzhaeg.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5229,"href":"https:\/\/www.fritzhaeg.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4905\/revisions\/5229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fritzhaeg.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fritzhaeg.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fritzhaeg.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}