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Broad beans "Bonzo" (5 kg)
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Broad Beans "Bonzo".
Early variety. Plant height 80-100 cm. Pods size 12-15 cm.
1.0 g = 1-1.5 seeds.
Early variety. Plant height 80-100 cm. Pods size 12-15 cm.
1.0 g = 1-1.5 seeds.
* Obtaining your own seeds.
Attention! Broad beans are prone to cross-pollination, so observe spatial isolation when propagating two or more varieties. Due to the limited size of the plot, the gardener often has to be satisfied with one variety for this reason. Seed shelf life is 10-12 years (however, good germination is maintained for no more than 4-5 years).
Pollen of vegetable beans is carried by honey bees and bumblebees. Harvesting for seeds begins when the lower beans turn black. The stems are pulled out and ripened in sheaves. Threshing is carried out manually, husking seeds from the valves.
Beans and seeds in the milky ripeness stage are used for canning, freezing, and cooking.
To harvest for a long time, sowing is carried out in several terms. Sowing in open ground is carried out in late April – early May, to a depth of 5 cm. Sowing scheme: 20x60 cm.
Broad beans prefer moist, peat-bog, and heavy clay soils. Seed yield 0.4-0.5 kg/m².
In terms of calorie content, bean seeds exceed potatoes by 3 times. Harvesting begins depending on the purpose of the product: if the fruits are intended for consumption whole (grains with pods), they are harvested when the pods are juicy and the grains reach 1 cm in diameter.
If the grown grains will be consumed raw, then the beans are harvested when the seeds are in the phase of milky ripeness and reach the maximum size for this variety.
The crop is harvested in 3-4 stages with intervals of 8-10 days. Beans are broken off by hand, trying not to damage the plant.
The yield of unripe beans averages about 1 kg, and unripe grains — 0.4 kg per 1 sq. m. If the crop is harvested once, you can cut all the plants (or pull them out by the root), tie them into sheaves, and dry well. After drying the plants, the beans must be separated and threshed. Then dry and store in a dry, dark place in linen bags or paper bags.
* In terms of protein and amino acid content, broad beans exceed peas. Bean protein is not inferior in value to meat protein. Seeds contain 28-35% of it, and, importantly, many essential amino acids that the human body receives only with food and does not produce itself.
In the phase of technical ripeness, beans contain 4.2% carbohydrates, 2.6% of which are sugar, as well as a large amount of mineral salts, mainly potassium, calcium, phosphorus, magnesium, sulfur, iron; up to 36% starch, 4% pectin substances, and up to 15% fat. Green beans contain many trace elements, especially various enzyme systems. They contain a large amount of vitamin C – 20 mg%, vitamin PP – 1.8 mg, and carotene (provitamin A) – 0.5 mg.
Beans are demanding of soils. Sandy loams are unsuitable for their cultivation. But on peat-bog and heavy clay soils, beans grow well. Liming is required; the variety succeeds better on soils with a neutral reaction. It is even better to use wood ash for these purposes.
On the plot allocated for beans, we dig the soil in the fall to the depth of a bayonet shovel (20 cm), and in the spring we apply organic and mineral fertilizers: humus (compost), manure (if you have it) – 5 kg per 1 m², superphosphate 30-50 g, potassium chloride (in the fall) – 10-20 g.
If we fertilized the soil well in the fall when digging the beds, then in the spring we add only garden mixture – 30 g/m² and 2 cups of wood ash per 1 m². We sow beans at the earliest possible dates (they belong to the most cold-resistant plants), usually in late April – early May.
Crop care: loosening row spacing, weeding. During repeated loosening, we hill up the plants. To shorten the vegetation period and for uniform ripening of beans, as well as to combat aphids, during the mass flowering period, we carry out topping – removing the top of the main stem.
We harvest beans for seeds when 75-90% of them turn black. We cut the plants with a knife or sickle and tie them into sheaves. We hang the sheaves indoors (not under a canopy where birds can fly in). Drying lasts 7-10 days.
