names that this bean is known as and you
might recognize one or two names that
you might have heard
and it's also important to remember that
hyacinth beans are not same as broad
beans broad beans are grown for their
seeds the hyacinth beans are grown for
their tender pods so this is how the
hyacinth bean plant looks like it's a
vine so you need to make sure you
provide a nice trellis and the vines can
grow up to six to ten feet so they're a
long growing wine so make sure you have
adequate room for the vines to grow and
the hyacinth bean or the lablab bean is
a perennial which means that it keeps
growing and it doesn't really die as
long as the temperatures don't go down
too much but most people's will grow it
as an annual this is how the hyacinth
bean flowers look like they are a little
white to purple color they actually
become purple as the flowers grow and
they do produce a lot of flowers so they
look pretty the hyacinth or lablab bean
is a simple to grow plant you don't need
to really worry about how much
fertilizer you are adding you just need
to make sure you have a well-drained
soil have lots of compost and as you can
see it produces a lot of beans in these
clusters and once again we are using
these beans only for their pods so what
you do is once the pods are ready you
can harvest the pods and then chop them
up and use them so it's now time to
harvest our hyacinth or lablab bean
remember we're harvesting them for their
tender pods so the earlier you harvest
the better it is to get the tender pod
that you can cook really well
so as you can see the hyacinth bean
produces a lot of pods and it is just so
easy to grow it and if you haven't
tasted hyacinth beans you should give it
a shot
unlike other beans that you can eat raw
hyacinth bean is a little thicker it has
thick skin but really not as thick as
the broad beans
remember the broad beans are grown for
their pods you shell them and eat them
but the hyacinth beans seeds are not
eaten you only eat the the pods or the
outer shell of the beans so what you
basically do is after the harvest you
chop up the the pods and then you cook
it you can find a lot of recipes online
it's quite a popular vegetable that is
used in South Asian countries as well as
some African countries so if you look up
online for recipes you will definitely
find some recipes that you can use for
your hyacinth bean but this is
definitely not the kind of bean that you
would eat raw simply because it's just
too thick
so that's how our harvest looks like and
as you can see you can get a lot of
beans with just a single harvest on just
a single day from this plant and this
plant keeps producing almost all
