Yard long Bean seed

LATIN NAME: Vigna unguiculata subsp. sesquipedalis

COMMON NAME: Yard-Long Bean

The yard-long bean climbs the poles and drops its slender pods, and the pea-like flowers open in the small pairs. The vigorous, twining, annual climbing plant carries the trifoliate leaves and the small, purple or white, pea-like flowers in the small pairs through the warm season, one of the fine, generous sights of the warm kitchen garden, to be followed by the very long, slender, pale-green pods. The pods have a long record as the fine, tender vegetable of the warm tables, and the plant is a fine, historic presence of the warm kitchen garden. It is a plant of the open, sunny, deep, moist, rich ground.

Scientific Research & Plant Biotechnology

The yard-long bean is a historic subject of the plant science, and the slender pods keep showing up in the work on the warm-season legumes. The way the very long, slender, pale-green pods form on the twining vines has been studied steadily, and it keeps appearing in the studies of the warm-season legumes, the pole beans and the members of the bean family. The trifoliate leaves and the twining habit have also made it a fine study plant, and the yard-long bean is a regular subject of the work on the slender pods of the warm world.

Ecological & Economic Value & Wide Applications

The yard-long bean is a fine, generous plant of the warm kitchen garden. The very long, slender, pale-green pods have a long record as the fine, tender vegetable of the warm tables, picked young and cut into the stir-fries, the soups and the warm dishes of the old kitchens, while the small, purple or white, pea-like flowers open in the small pairs through the warm season, drawing the bees. The vine feeds the soil, fixing the nitrogen through the roots, and it is one of the fine choices for the warm kitchen garden, the pole row and the study collection. It has been written about in the culinary and the agricultural papers for the slender pods and the generous ways, and it is a fine, generous plant of the open, sunny, deep, moist, rich garden.

Give the young vines the poles and the warm, sunny spot, and the pods will come in the first warm season.

To grow the yard-long bean from seed, soak the small, kidney-shaped seeds in the warm water for a night, then sow them a centimetre down in the pot of gritty soil. Keep the pot in a warm, bright spot and water gently, then set the young plants out after the last frosts. The seedlings show themselves within a week or two and grow on fast. With the sun, the warmth and the deep, moist, rich ground, the slender pods will drop along the poles through the warm season.

Yard long Bean/Asparagus Bean

sweet flavour. Beans will grow from 60cm/2ft-90cm/3ft long