Wednesday, May 25, 2011

Plant World:How to grow Butter beans or yellow beans


Plant World:How to grow Butter beans or yellow beans
Butter beans or yellow beans(Phaseolus vulgaris) is generally easy to grow.The plant contains a kind of Nitrogen producing bacteria which helps the plant to grow even if the soil isn't fertile.It can adapt to dry or wet soil conditions.That means it it isn't nutrient demanding!In Fact, is grows perfectly in clay soil!
Temperature needed for growing this yellow beans:17 degrees to 29+degrees


Tips:Best grown in fertile or not fertile Clay soil mixed with humus.Short of sunlight will result in small leaves, no flowers and fruits.(needs half to full day of sunlight).
Due to its weak stem, put one or two sticks next to the butter or yellow bean plant.Easy to grow.
  
buy some yellow bean seeds and plant them 25cm apart.In 5-7 days, large sprouts should have shoot up.And in 13 days,Big two leaved seedlings should have pop up.
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(This is how the seedling looks like):

And in 5-10 weeks, Your butter bean or yellow bean plant should have started to flower and mature.The yellow bean or butter bean plant should quickly fruit.   
The yellow beans are fully develop in 5 to 6 days.If you are not sure when to harvest the yellow beans,than harvest the bean only when it is 96+% yellow. 
This is how a mature plant looks like:

                                  

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