Legumes for planting in 2026 by Fasol

[Fasol]

Hello everyone! I’m Konstantin, and I hail from a small ethnic republic within Russia. My specialty is agricultural science. This year, I will be planting part of my collection of various legume crops, featuring more than 300 varieties. The collection mainly includes common beans, peas, soybeans, and broad beans, as well as some crops non-traditional to our region.

I plan to post my observations on legume cultivation here, hoping to find a response among fellow enthusiasts. I am multilingual, but English is not among the languages I speak. Thankfully, neural network-based translators are erasing language barriers.

Wishing everyone a great harvest this season!

 

[Decoy1]

Welcome Fasol. That sounds like a great collection. It will be very interesting to follow your progress this season. Can you say a bit about your growing conditions to set the scene?

For me, the grid of beans was too blurred to see the names. Are they in Cyrillic script? If you can find a way of posting the grid so that the beans show up well that would be great.

 

[oxbow farm]

Hello Konstantin,

Very interested to see more of your collection. There are lots of bean enthusiasts here on easygarden. Are many of your collected varieties native ones from Chuvashia?

I myself am expanding the variety of dry legumes I grow, trying to figure out the best/highest yeilding ones for my climate in case I or my family should need them to feed ourselves given these uncertain times. I've found that for me, broad beans (favas), lentils, garbanzo beans (chickpeas) just do not grow well here and yield very minimally. I'm still experimenting more with peanuts and pigeon peas.

Soup peas grow very well for me here, as do common beans, cowpeas, and soybeans.