How to grow beans at home in cotton wool?

April 15, 2013 at 10:34 AM

The best way to see how the root system develops

 

It is very interesting to observe how quickly the bean plants develop. All the equipment you need for this is a glass jar, cotton balls and a package of dried beans from any grocery store.

You need to moisten the cotton so that it is damp, but not wet. Then place the bean seed between the balls and the wall of the jar, and then put the jar on the windowsill.

Within two to three days, a root will begin to sprout from the seed, after another 2-3 days small tendrils will grow. After that, wait another 4-5 days: the beans will develop a large root system, a strong stem will grow, the seed shell will fall off. And in two days the leaves will unfold!

Now you can remove the beans from the jar, clean the cotton from the root system and transplant the plant into the ground.

 

Beans are known to every inhabitant of our vast country, but not everyone knows about their varieties and growing rules. Cultivating this kind of culture at home is a snap. Beans are rich in various vitamins and microelements by their composition. With all this, in terms of care, it is an unpretentious plant. So, how to plant beans correctly, and what care features are there?

Description of beans

The plant belongs to the legume family, which unites about 97 species. His homeland is considered

Lat. Phaséolus

Latin America and India. Beans are widespread in England, France, Brazil, Germany, etc. In Russia, it appeared in the 16th century. An interesting fact - initially this plant was grown only for decorative purposes, and after several centuries, it began to be cultivated as a vegetable crop.

This is a truly unique plant, since its fruits contain a huge amount of useful elements that are so necessary for the human body.

There are a lot of species of this plant: mainly common beans were common in our country. Beans can be:

• curly;
• half-crumpled;
• bush.

In the first case, the length of the plant can reach five meters or more, in the second - up to 1.5 meters, and in the third, the height can vary from 20 - 70 cm. In Russia, bush varieties are more preferred.

During the flowering period, the plant can become a decoration for a vegetable garden, a garden plot or a local area. It has rather large leaves, and the flowers are irregular butterflies, collected in inflorescences of 2 - 6 per brush. The length of the pod depends on the variety, it can vary from 5 - 25 cm.Their color can be different:

• White;
• Red;
• Purple;
• Black.

In addition, beans are subdivided depending on the structure of the valves:

• Sugar or asparagus;
• Semi-sugar;
• Peeling varieties.

An interesting fact: the plant is thermophilic, because its seeds germinate only at a soil temperature of about 10 degrees, in this regard, the culture is sown at the same time as cucumbers.

How to choose the right variety of beans for your home?

Bean pods

Is there a difference between a greenhouse and a glazed loggia? The answer is no. We choose a place for location along the walls so that our plant does not shade others.

Above, we figured out that there are several types of this plant: climbing, semi-climbing and bush.The latter species is the fastest ripening, which is important for some regions of our country. Curly plants will have to be tied to a trellis (a lattice that serves as a support for plants), and bush plants can be tied to sticks up to 60 cm high and this will be quite enough.

It is better to refuse hulling varieties of beans right away, they are not suitable for growing in greenhouses.

For a loggia, sugar or asparagus beans are ideal. The most popular of these are the following varieties:

• "Caramel";
• The Oil King;
• "Sachs 615".

First grade: in 2 months, the bush can give pods of a pleasant sugar taste. It should be noted that this variety is resistant to all diseases.

The second can be harvested in less than 2 months. The pods are tubular in shape and can reach a length of 25 cm. The taste is delicate. They can be used both fresh and harvested for future use.

The last variety has a length of no more than 40 cm. As in the second case, it has tubular pods up to 12 cm. They contain a huge amount of nutrients and sugar.

Preparation of planting material and land

The bean fruit has a hard shell; it grows rather poorly from dry seeds.

Bean seedlings on the windowsill

Immediately before sowing, it is not recommended to soak them, because they will simply rot in the cold soil.

Professionals proceed as follows: the seeds are placed in a small container and poured with a weak solution of potassium permanganate. The temperature of the solution should be at least 70 degrees. After this procedure, the seeds should be sown immediately. Pour the rest of the hot solution into the ground.

Or you can do it differently: dilute a weak pink solution of potassium permanganate in water, its temperature should be approximately 60 degrees. Pour the soil with this solution and sow the beans immediately.

If you are going to grow beans at home, it is important that the balcony or loggia is glazed. As a rule, they begin to sow it in late spring. If you do not have a balcony, but you still want to enjoy delicious fruits, do not despair. Containers or seed boxes can also be placed on the windowsill in the room, but in this case the seeds are sown in mid-March.

The soil for this plant should be loose, fertile and rich in various trace elements.

It does not tolerate acidic soil, it must be slightly alkaline, therefore, a deoxidizer should be added before sowing seeds. For this, you can use chalk, dolomite or ash.

Planting stages

Remember that the planting site must be well lit, otherwise the plant will not grow in the shade. And this means only one thing: if you are going to grow beans in a room, then it will need additional lighting.

Stage 1

First shoots

Seeds can be planted in the ground immediately (as described above) or previously germinated. If you prefer the second method, then the scheme is very simple:

• We take the required amount of seeds and wrap them in cheesecloth;
• We collect a little warm water in a small container and dip the seeds into it;
• As it evaporates, add water to the container.

It is important to know that all specimens must be carefully examined for defects before planting.

Damaged seeds are sifted out immediately. Only in this way will you protect your plant from pests, and they can ruin the harvest even on a loggia or in an apartment.

Stage 2

Particular attention should be paid to the choice of a box or container for planting a plant. For bush varieties, we choose a container with a volume of at least 2 liters, and for climbing varieties - at least 35 liters.

Once you have acquired the correct box, you should tackle the soil. For the selected varieties, we use the following composition: 2 parts of soil and one part of humus.

Stage 3 Disembarkation

There is no difficulty in this. It is enough just to adhere to some rules and recommendations:

Before planting the seeds, even if you have soaked them beforehand, you should dip them in hot water or water the soil with it.

Seeds are planted at a distance of 10 cm from each other, while two grains can be placed in one hole at once.

The optimal time for planting is late spring. After 5 - 7 days, the beans will give their first shoots, after 6 weeks - the plant will bloom, and in a few weeks it will give the first harvest.

Care and watering

Sprouting beans

In order for our plant to give a good harvest, it is necessary to carry out proper watering.

Absolutely the entire legume family loves water, especially the plant needs it when the pods appear. Watering should be carried out as it dries, it should be moderate.

Water should not get on the leaves, otherwise the plant can get sick with a fungal disease.

Watering is best done in the morning. It is stopped after the appearance of the second pair of leaves, and resumed from the beginning of flowering of the plant.

On cloudy and cold days, beans need extra lighting. After the first shoots have appeared in the container, you need to stick a stick to which in the future they should be tied.

The plant does not need special fertilizers, but they will not be superfluous either. For this, you should choose a mixture containing potassium and phosphorus. Fertilizer should be applied no more than once every 2 weeks.

Important! Even at home, the plant can be affected by a spider mite or caryopsis.

The latter can fall into the ground during planting, and then settle inside the fruit. If this still happened to your plant, then it is important to treat it with special biological products.

Harvesting the first harvest

The pods, as soon as they are ripe, are immediately removed and used. In this case, several pieces can be left for the next planting, but they should fully mature. Growing this crop at home cannot be called large-scale, but, for example, 8 planted bushes will be enough to harvest after 2 months.

Cool weather can shift the timing of fruiting somewhat. If you decide on climbing varieties, then it will be enough to plant about 5 bushes on the loggia.

While watching the video, you will learn about growing beans.

Beans, of course, are useful, because they are rich in useful vitamins and minerals, and they also contain vegetable protein, which is similar in composition to meat. It is unpretentious in care, the main thing is that you must strictly follow all the rules and recommendations and you will achieve a rich harvest.

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Legumes

Beans are one of the most undemanding crops, while having a high nutritional value, so growing beans in the open field is not uncommon. But the product is so loved by the people that more and more often you can see how beans are grown at home (on a loggia, balcony or windowsill).

Actually, it is a little difficult - to create conditions for the development of a legume plant. Beans only need timely watering, good soil (preferably fertile), plenty of light.

Planting beans on the balcony and loggia attracts fans to grow vegetables at home, first of all, because there is no need to purchase huge pots, fill them with a lot of soil, which, you see, is not always handy, for example, on a small loggia.

Due to the fact that the roots of this plant develop poorly, it needs small containers (pots, boxes, containers).

However, in the course of growing leguminous plants, some difficulties may arise, therefore it is important to observe all agrotechnical features that require certain knowledge from a beginner, and skill from an experienced gardener.

Does any variety work?

We note right away that it will be problematic to get grain at home, because you cannot grow much in a pot, and for peeling varieties you need space, that is, a vegetable garden.

The best option for home growing is asparagus beans, which are eaten as unripe pods. Ornamental varieties are also very popular.

In addition, it is recommended to give preference to bush beans, they have a short growing season and ripen faster. It is also compact and does not require the construction of complex structures for tying. Curly beans are a great option for a summer residence.

Since we want to plant beans at home, one that would not bring us a lot of trouble, it is best to find early bush varieties, for example, "Homestead Green" or "Scuba". Undoubtedly, there are plenty of varieties suitable for growing in a box, picking them up is not a problem.

For home cultivation, hybrids are often recommended that best resist diseases and insects, and preference should be given to the most resistant hybrids to these unfavorable factors.

Bean seed germination methods

If you have purchased seeds and have decided when to plant beans on the balcony, carry out pre-sowing treatment, which will save you from troubles in the form of lack of germination, the appearance of unwanted insects, diseases and, as a result, crop failure.

First, inspect all the seed, all grains should be smooth, shiny, free from damage and traces of pests. All low-quality seeds can be easily identified by eye and immediately discarded. Signs of inadequate seed quality are flabbiness, the presence of dark spots, and other visible damage.

The soaking method is used to germinate beans. All the seeds are dipped into a prepared cloth bag, secured with a cord and dipped in lukewarm water, left for a while. If necessary, add water. But you need to make sure that the seeds do not stay in the water for too long, soaking for a maximum of 5 hours is allowed.

Beans can also be soaked in a solution of potassium permanganate, in melt water, but treatment with a disinfecting solution of special fungicides and insecticides will serve as the best prevention of plant ailments.

However, this method of preparing planting material is not always used, because beans usually grow well without that.

In addition to soaking before planting the beans at home, they are done with the seeds of the beans and germination until the root is formed. By the way, this technology makes it possible for sure to reject non-similar seed. To do this, the grains are kept in a constantly damp cloth (but not in water) until they begin to hatch. Usually the process does not take much time and is limited to 1-2 days. As soon as the sprouts reach 2-3 cm in length, the seeds can be planted in prepared containers.

The method is convenient in that the plants germinate faster in the soil and have a greater vigor of growth. In the process of germination, each sprout is in almost ideal conditions, which gives it strength and health.

Features of soil for legumes

At home on the balcony, in specially prepared two-liter pots for bush forms and 35-liter pots for climbing ones, you need to collect high-quality soil, containing minerals, and having friability. An excellent fertile mixture can be obtained by mixing with humus. For two measures of ordinary soil (you can from a store) take one measure of humus, which has the ability to reduce acidity in the ground. It is necessary to achieve 6-7 pH.

You should not allow the introduction of large amounts of nitrogen into the soil, it promotes the growth of foliage, but in no way stimulates the plant to form fruit. Superphosphate, potassium chloride, ammonium nitrate - these are three components that will work well for your beans on the loggia.

Planting and caring for beans

Novice vegetable growers are usually given a simple memorable recommendation when asked how to plant beans at home, sprout up or down.When planting germinated seeds in a depression in the soil, it is advised to lay the beans on their side so as not to be mistaken with the correct arrangement of the grain. They are buried into the ground by about 5-7 cm, and if we use containers, then the distance between the plants is 10 cm.

Watering is mandatory, but not often, the plant does not require too moist soil. However, you should not forget that you need to add moisture regularly. As soon as the seedlings have appeared, and a couple of true leaves have grown, you need to postpone it for the time of watering and wait until it blooms, and after watering they resume. The entire growth period must be accompanied by abundant light.

The first home harvest can be harvested about 50 days after germination. But this is in the warm season, and in winter, the time for harvesting is extended.

Growing beans on the balcony is a pleasant activity that everyone will enjoy, because beans are extremely decorative, and benefit, since you can easily get delicious beans to the table.

Growing beans on the windowsill, I was convinced that this is the fastest growing fruiting loach that one could think of sowing on my windowsill, and now I will tell my story of how I decided to grow beans on the balcony (and not at all decorative, but very attractive in appearance ).

Purchase of seeds and their germination

I bought the seeds every day, like many others. Not knowing what exactly I needed, I grabbed many, many different plants. But now I am acting more prudently and approaching the purchase of seeds intelligently, already knowing what exactly I will grow, which will be easy to grow at home and will benefit in the future, either aesthetic or edible.

Grabbing seeds of beans of an unknown variety, I just thought to grow beans, and nothing more. And the fact that there are species more or less suitable for growing at home, I did not think.

The seed package looked like this:

Later, analyzing the variety of my beans, I really liked the inscription, which I underlined in the photo in red - KUSTOVA:

But alas, this turned out to be a hoax, which I will talk about later.

There were 10 seeds in the package:

I decided to plant only 2 in one five-liter container.

Acted in a standard way: drainage to the bottom, from above to the entire depth poured universal soil. I put the beans at a distance of 10 centimeters from each other and sprinkled them with a centimeter layer of earth. I moistened the soil well on top and put it on the windowsill under the film.

One of the beans hatched after 3 days. Moreover, the plant grew very quickly:

At first, it really looked like a bush, but after 2 weeks I suspected something was wrong:

The beans began to stretch very quickly and had to be tied to a support.

In the meantime, the second bean began to hatch, for which I already had time to think that it was not suitable. After 3 weeks after planting, she nevertheless launched a scion:

Later, both beans began to grow at the same rate and curl along the same support.

Home care for beans

Beans turned out to be a rather unpretentious plant that grows at an insane speed, looks great, and the fruits began to form quickly enough, despite the insufficient number of sunny days (I hope that at least there will be no frost in June ??).

I began to water the beans on a par with the peas: I noticed that all the legumes love frequent watering.

I darkened the roots so that they do not suffer from the light: I put a black bag on the container in which the beans grow, by analogy with peas.

And it was also noticed that the beans are quite a "brazen" plant: when it felt cramped on its support, it calmly threw its whips on the support of the peas and intertwined with it (here's the bush beans for you !!!):

But such a neighborhood had to be separated, since they formed a single curtain on the windowsill, and we ourselves had to survive in partial shade 🙂

Fortunately, not a single plant was damaged, but it took 10-15 minutes to dig deeper, untangling the loaches.

I used vermicompost as a top dressing. They began to feed only closer to flowering, and before that, the plant grew very quickly even without feeding.

And one more thing: I always kept the window open so that there was a breeze on the balcony. After all, this is a field plant, so let it think that it grows in a field 🙂

This is where all the nuances in care end, so I can safely say that even a beginner can grow beans at home: this is an unpretentious and beautiful loach!

Bean fruiting period

You can say that I didn’t have time to blink an eye, as fruits began to form on the string of beans. Interestingly, everywhere in pairs:

The fruits grew very quickly, both quantitatively and dimensionally:

Now 2 of my beans are very tightly intertwined, and I cannot understand which one is blooming, which one bears fruit ... Most likely, both of them blossom and bear fruit. The pods hang, one might say, in clusters, and white flowers grow nearby. In decorative terms, they are, of course, nondescript, but in general, the pod plant looks very unusual in the home interior:

More recently, curiosity got the better of my mind, and I decided to pick one bean pod for a sample:

The beans inside turned out to be very small, still immature:

Of course, I used them raw, and later I read that beans can only be eaten ripe and after heat treatment, otherwise they can seriously harm the gastrointestinal tract. But since the portion eaten was very small, I did not feel any negative consequences. It tastes sweet, almost like peas. But now I will wait for the absolute maturity of all the pods, and this will happen closer to the end of summer.

General view of my beans

As I have said more than once, this is a stunning large loach, despite the manufacturer's promises: a compact bush should have grown, 30-35 centimeters high, but almost a liana grows, with wide leaves and a solid length, which is still increasing:

I cut off the lower leaves, which were burnt in the sun, because they were completely dry and looked ugly, hung like sluggish rags. And some even came off on their own.

Due to the fact that now the sun spoils us rarely, new burnt leaves are not formed, but due to the cold weather, some leaves began to freeze (not one, so another!):

But overall, I like the overall look of my beans, even as a regular ornamental plant, but now I'm curious what does bush beans look like?

Conclusion

Even if you took the seeds of a compact bush plant, you need to be prepared for a vine to grow, as in my case. I do not know how long my beans will grow, but I am glad that they are quite unpretentious, although they suffer from weather disasters: it freezes, then burns in the sun.

It is very interesting to grow this plant at home: it grows so quickly, and it is always important to see the fruits of your labors!