How to Plant Yard-Long Green Beans
If you've never eaten yard-long green beans, you're missing a real treat. They are among the sweetest and most tender of the bean varieties. You can pick them, wash them, put them in a pot of boiling water and add some seasoning, and 10 minutes later serve them to your family. Yard-long green beans grow from 30 to 36 inches long but are best at about 12 inches. They are also call asparagus green beans or Chinese green beans. Does this Spark an idea?
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Things You'll Need
- Shovel
- Hoe
- Fertilizer
- Seed
- Poles
- Chicken wire
- Wire
- Stapler
- Hammer
- Nails
- Sharp knife
Instructions
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Select a place in your vegetable garden for the yard-long beans in full sun with enough room for a trellis. Plan so the row goes north and south to get full advantage of the sun.
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Turn the soil over with shovel and work with back and forth with garden hoe to loosen. Fertilize the soil before planting the bean seed.
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Plant the seeds 8 inches apart and 1 inch deep. The seeds germinate in six to 10 days. The vegetable flowers about five weeks after sowing. Beans form about 10 to 12 days after flowering.
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Place a pole at each end and in the middle of row. Stretch chicken wire from one end to the other end and attach to the poles with stapler or nail to form trellis for bean vines. Or create a pole tripod of three flexible poles, such as bamboo, attached with wire over each plant.
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Harvest the green bean with a sharp knife when bean is about 12 inches long. Leave one or two bean pods on bush just to see how long they'll grow. They will form peas inside the pod that can be eaten like any dried pea.
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Tips & Warnings
Yard long green beans like warm and humid climate but will grow in just about any climate.
They are more drought resistant than regular green beans
This green bean vegetable is a close relative to black-eyed pea
They are sensitive to cold weather
Have fun showing your long bean to your neighbors and friends
References
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Comments
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had them with friends in San Jose when I visited them, and loved them would love to find the seed in South Africa.
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u can slice it up & beat an egg with it & cook it like an omelet. Or cut it fingers length & stir fry it with minced pork or minced chicken (make sure u fry the minced meat first before adding the beans as it cooks pretty fast.)
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Our friends from China gave us some long green beans. I have never cooked them before. Any suggestions?
