Our pretty runner beans keep on giving. Moonlight and French. These can be eaten green, pods and all
Our pretty runner beans keep on giving. Moonlight and French. These can be eaten green, pods and all. Their flowers are edible too, try them in salads!Beans enjoy lightish, warm, well drained soil. Not sour, nor heavy clay. Like any other common vegetable they grow best after a heavily mucked crop.Sow them in the beginning of summer, they are all frost-tender and will not thrive if sown in cold damp ground. Wide drill, about 5cm (2’’) deep, in two staggered rows 15cm (6’’) apart.After care, hoe well, and draw the soil all around the plants. Dwarf varieties won’t need any sticking but high varieties like ours, pictured here, do. So any arrangements of sticks and string supported on poles, will do.If you want to dry the beans for winter (butter beans, lima beans, among other varieties) let them get ripe, pull the plants intact and hang them upside down from the roof of an airy place. Then thresh them as required. If you are eating them green like we will be doing with these, just pull them. The secret of having plenty of them, young and fresh, is to keep pulling. Revolt against the modern world, grow your own food! #bloodandsoil #tradition #homesteading #growyourown #selfsufficiency -- source link
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