10 Vegetable Tips To Grow Beautiful GREEN BEANS.
Nothing like good, tender green beans freshly picked from the garden.
A vegetable rich in vitamins and minerals, and also low in calories.
A true delight ! In addition, the green bean is easy to grow.
You can grow it in the ground, in your vegetable garden, but also in pots, on your balcony or terrace. It just needs a warm, sunny location.
To help you eat delicious, tender and tender beans, here is 10 market gardening tips to grow beautiful green beans. Look :
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10 market gardening tips for growing green beans
1. Plant your green beans in a location with direct sunlight (at least 10 hours a day).
2. Beans need heat to grow well, ideally with an air temperature of 20-27 ° C, and a soil temperature of at least 15 ° C.
3. Sow your bean seeds in rows and 2 to 3 cm deep, with 8 to 10 cm between each seed.
4. After the seeds have emerged, add a 2-3cm layer of mulch. Mulching helps keep the soil moist and cool during hot periods. Too much heat can cause the flowers to wilt, which drop without bearing fruit.
5. To be sure to harvest green beans throughout the fall, stagger the seedlings (sow your seeds every two weeks and until August).
6. The ideal pH for growing green beans is between 6.0 and 6.5, so add 2-3 cm of compost to the soil before sowing your seeds.
7. Aphids attack the leaves and young shoots of green beans. In case of attack, wash off their colonies with a water jet or wash the foliage with a solution of soft soap.
8. Harvest your green beans when their skin is still tender. If you harvest them too late, the skin will harden and the beans will become stringy, which is unpleasant to eat ...
9. When harvesting, avoid pulling on the beans. Use a knife to cut them off at the stalk, otherwise you risk damaging the plant.
10. Harvest the climbing beans every 2 to 3 days to allow the plant to continue producing.
The different types of green beans
- Green beans "with fillets" or "extra-fine" have long pods of incomparable flavor. But if they are harvested too late, they become stringy and are unpleasant to eat ...
- Green beans "mangetout" are a little less tasty, but they are without wires inside.
- Beans "filets sans fil", "filet mangetout" or "extra fine cordless" are new varieties of snap beans that are also intended to be picked young. The advantage is that these beans remain tender and thin even with a slight delay in harvest.
The best varieties of green beans
There are many varieties of beans: beans with pods, seeds, green beans, yellow, purple or even streaked with red:
- Kidney bean "Contender" mangetout: very high yield, harvested quickly, eaten fresh or canned, adapts perfectly to freezing.
- Rowing bean "Or du Rhin" mangetout: late variety producing yellow pods about 20 cm long, long, flat and cordless, eaten fresh, sautéed, in juice or in butter.
- "Blauhilde" mangetout row beans: variety with tasty and fleshy pods about 25 cm long, blue-purple in color with white seeds. Their purple color turns dark green when cooked.
Additional advice
- Beware of the bean weevil which only attacks whole beans, but it can destroy an entire crop.
- To get rid of the weevil, the safest way is to leave the seeds intended for sowing a few days in the freezer.
- To keep aphids at bay, ladybugs are a precious ally. You can also plant aromatic herbs like savory.
- To keep green beans tender after cooking, click here to find out how.
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