HOW TO GROW ASPARAGUS BEANS

Asparagus beans are plants which produce a lot of slender very long pods that have a delicious and nutty flavor now asparagus beans is known by a lot of different names it's called yard long beans Chinese long beans snake beans and a lot of other different names the first thing that we look at it the trellis that we need to use to grow asparagus beans and as you can see here we are using these rebars these are very cheaply available at most garden stores and hardware stores you see those three sticks iron sticks or rebars as they call them and these are about 6 foot in height and they make a great trellis what I've done is I've taken the rebars and then I have painted them with a spray paint it's very easy to do that so they do not rust and then you can use these stakes now let's look at planting asparagus beans can be sowed directly into the soil we are using this 16-inch container here it's a large container about 10 gallons of soil in this container and we have soaked our seeds overnight so that they absorb a lot of water and beans benefits very well from soaking in water before sowing i do not recommend soaking each and every seed before sowing but beans are a good plant to soak their seeds in before we start sowing them in the soil and you can easily grow them in this sized container as you can see we're planting a lot of seeds here so about seven plants easily can be grown in a container of this size the roots of the yard long beans are not very deep so this is a good size container so we sowed our seeds in late Feb and in March you can see that the seedlings have emerged the asparagus beans usually germinates with in about seven to ten days so by may you can see that the asparagus beans starts producing flowers which will eventually turn into beans the fruit and you can see here the leaves are slightly shriveled towards the bottom part of the plant and that is because we had a much cooler March than we thought this year so you might want to wait till about April or May to start your seeds to avoid problems like these but once it was warm the asparagus beans plants took over very nicely and started growing really well as you can see here the 6-foot trellis is almost entirely covered and this is why you need a nice large trellis for this bean variety by July you can see that the asparagus beans has grown to a size where it's producing a lot of beans so let's go ahead and harvest a few asparagus beans or these yard long beans and as you can see here they are almost a yard long which is why it gets that name now if you haven't tasted this bean variety you have to try this out it's a very nutty and very flavorful variety of beans and this is why I like growing these beans these beans are not really available in most grocery stores although i've seen that a lot of grocery stores now and start carrying these beans it's not that popular and I'm a little surprised because these beans taste really good and is also very healthy so give it a shot try to grow this beans and see if you like it one of the joys of growing your own vegetables is that you can grow things that are not commonly available in your local grocery store and even if you do see them in your grocery stores that usually dry and shivered not as fresh as you can see here so this is a good reason to grow this plant when you grow them at home they're fresh they're nice and plump and they taste really amazing and this is our harvest looks like as you can see here great-looking yard long beans and you can keep harvesting these beans for quite a long time as long as the plant is growing so as you can see here we've been harvesting a lot of beans from this plant in just the first few days of july now as far as fertilizer goes what I've done is I've given a lot of compost tea to this plant this plant already has a lot of organic fertilizer mixed into the soil and that's pretty much all that you need to grow asparagus beans it's a very easy plant to grow and i'm sure you'll love growing this in your garden