Learning how to grow chickpeas gives you a chance to broaden your gardening horizons with a crop that is easy to grow, drought-resistant, cool-hardy and packed with goodness. Also known as garbanzo ...

Sierra is a kabuli variety and the most popular chickpea grown in the U.S. and is susceptible to Pythium disease. Nash is an extra-large kabuli variety that is disease susceptible. Billy Bean is a ...

Garbanzo beans — plain chickpeas — also make a satisfactory coffee-like drink, according to Irene Potter of Neosho, Missouri. All you have to do, Irene says, is [1] roast some chickpeas in a 300 ...