Homeliness, Gardening
String beans - how to plant? Haricot bean - cultivation and care
Both the asparagus and green beans are considered to be one of the most valuable, tasty and useful representatives of the legume family. Their homeland is the territory of South and Central America. Now the green beans are cultivated almost everywhere, a rich crop is grown even in Siberia.
Green beans: planting, growing. We select the soil
Green beans are a fairly unpretentious plant. It is easy to get a rich harvest, observing some agrotechnical rules of cultivation and care. For the cultivation of beans and hay, and asparagus, light, fertile and well-drained soils with moderate humidity perfectly suit. Medium or light loam, as well as sandy loam, will give a real good harvest of legumes. Too wet, swampy, heavy soils are hardly suitable - the plants will be ill and develop poorly. Growing beans must be carried out in areas protected from wind, heated and normally illuminated. But, in principle, the penumbra is also suitable. Of course, the chosen site for planting seeds should be well cleared of all sorts of weeds. Not bad, if the beans were grown potatoes, tomatoes or cabbages.
String beans: plant the seeds correctly
In autumn, the site chosen for planting is prepared: digging and adding organic material (6 kg per 1 m²), superphosphate (35 g per 1 m 2), and potassium chloride (20 g per 1 m 2). In spring, a complex mineral fertilizer with a high content of potassium (25 g per 1 sq. M.) Is added to the soil. On well-prepared soil, it will be better and more active to grow green beans. How to plant seeds? First it is necessary to wait for the warming up of the earth to 15-18 ° C and to exclude the probability of occurrence of repeated frosts. In southern Russia, beans can be sown safely as early as mid-May, in other regions it is advisable to wait until June. Remember that the beans are very fond of heat. How to plant seeds?
Features of planting bush and curling beans
As a rule, all varieties of beans are divided into curly and bush. The clustered asparagus beans are sown in rows. Between the beans stand the distance of 15 - 20 cm, and between the rows - about 30 cm. Growing the bush beans and harvesting will be more convenient if you leave a free interval of 50 cm every three rows. Before flowering, one or two flowers Times okuchit. Then the bean bushes will become more stable and will not be polluted because of strong wind or rain. So, we have determined how best to sow the bush plant varieties of green beans. How to plant frizzy varieties, we will discuss further.
Haricot bean: cultivation and care. Watering, top dressing
String and asparagus beans need good watering. With sufficient and regular moistening, the plants will form fleshy pods and will bear abundant fruit. For watering, you can prepare a nutritious infusion: fill the barrel more than half the weeds and pour water into it. Leave the days gone by seven. And then 1 liter of ready-made infusion dilute in a bucket of water. With this solution, you can moisten the crops of beans.
Harvesting of green beans
Asparagus beans are consumed in their entirety, that is, not only seeds but also green pods that have a pleasant taste and aroma are to be cooked.
Harvest green beans and asparagus beans selectively, tearing milk fruits, not allowing the hardening of their grains. Remove the green "scapula" several times per season, depending on the plant variety. Fruiting of beans will continue in summer and autumn, before the onset of frost. The bushes intended for obtaining the seed material do not take off. They are left until the seeds ripen completely, and in September-October they are removed from the garden.
Popular varieties of green beans
One of the most delicious varieties is the Deer King (Holland). This short-grown shrub bean starts to mature early and yields a great harvest. The variety can be recognized by lemon yellow pods and white grains. Another good variety is Fana (Poland). The pods of this clustered asparagus bean are green, and inside them are white grains. The variety is particularly resistant to diseases and high yield. Popular varieties of curly asparagus are Golden Nectar and Hell Rem (both USA). They are distinguished by high yield and excellent taste characteristics. Blau Hilde (Austria) - another excellent variety of curly beans. You can learn it by purple pods and large creamy grains.
Instead of concluding
So, in this article we have considered the features of growing a valuable plant called green (string) beans. How to plant, how to care for him, to feed and harvest - you now know. We hope that at your dacha site you will have to grow this beautiful legume culture, which is a valuable source of protein, fiber, vitamins, macro- and microelements.
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