Bean Plant Growth Excitement!
Bean Plant Growth and planting delicious beans and peas from seeds in your containers and raised bed garden is naturally possible! There are a great numbers of beans in the market. We heard often about board beans, green snap beans, bush beans, Lima beans, mung beans (green beans), Adzuki beans (red beans), black beans (for soups), soy beans and vanilla beans for fragrant cooking and perfume. We have been growing a numbers of beans and peas all these years. Those dwarf, diseases resistant and high yielding variety interest us the most. However, the string-less dwarf bush beans, the care free creeping vines sweet peas, snap beans and edible pea pods are our favourites. Let us see how to grow all types of bean plants and pea plants in a small organic vegetable garden! In 2009 we had planted six different types of beans which included these four delicious varieties: Butter beans 'Minidor'; string-less pea pods 'Stamkievits'; Purple Queen and Bush beans 'Maxi'.
Seedlings should be done under cold frame or in the greenhouse in early spring. If you prefer to sow directly in your open ground vegetable garden, it should be done from mid spring to mid summer. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- When the pea pods are shown, throw a net over to protect the pea pods from the birds. Harvest when the bean pods are brown in colour. When harvesting, pull out the whole plant and hang it in a dry and windy place and the peas would dry naturally. I remembered my grandmother said: those days, when the pea pods are dried, they put them in a jute bag and beat the pods with a stick; the peas would be out of the pods and the dried peas would be able to stay for a long time. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- If you have quite a bit of space, you may plant direct in the open ground garden when the ground is warm. It should be during mid-spring to early summer. Set the pea plant about 50cm or 20 inches in rows and 10cm (about 4 inches) apart from each other. This purple skin peas love a warm place and a moist ground in your garden. Seedlings just like the others, can be done in early spring. Transplant to open ground raised bed in mid-spring. Harvest from early summer to late summer. After harvest you may store all your sweet beans in the freezer, if you prefer. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Sowing in early spring under cold frame or in the greenhouse, and plant out when the ground is warm. Sowing in rows of 40 to 45cm (about 16 to 18 inches) apart and 7 to 10cm (3 to 4 inches) from each other. Harvest within 3 months from the date of sowing. Dwarf beans, Miracle do best in a sunny place. The bean seeds would be sprouted in 14 days from seedlings. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Sow seed 1.5 inch or 4cm deep. Direct seedlings can be done from mid-spring to early summer. Sow 4 inches (10cm) apart and 50cm or 20 inches in rows. Harvest in summer. Harvest when the pea pods are young. The pods are in light green, thick and fleshy. If you have limited gardening space, you can consider to grow the bean pods in containers. I had it outside of our DIY greenhouse. Growing Bean plants and pea plants in your organic garden is totally amazing! Imagine... with such a small gardening space you can enjoy supper sweet and fresh harvests from many different types of beans and pea pods everyday. We discovered that, after a few days of light rain falls, the bean plants grew supper fast. We provided the most important plant foods, sunlight and rain water from the nature. The rest are taken care by the plant itself. After harvest, we gave some green beans, some yellow bush beans, and some purple beans to my mum-in-law. However several days later she told us that she has thrown the purple beans away as they were no longer in green colour. I could not blame her as she had never heard or seen purple beans in her early days. Start bean plant growth program to grow more legumes in your small space home vegetable garden today; to help fertilising; and to maintain our natural earth!
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