Beans - a culture that is popular among summer residents. This is a fairly unpretentious plant that enriches the body with useful components necessary for maintaining health.
Growing beans at home - planting and caring for the plant in the open ground
How to plant beans
Since the plant is thermophilic, planting should be done no earlier than May. The soil must be fertile, well-drained. Illumination is also an important factor for beans, so you need to choose a site with direct sunlight.
It is necessary to prepare the land for planting in a few days. To do this, it needs to be dug up and re-arranged. Additionally, a bucket of sand should be added to the ground, and all mixed. If necessary, fertilizer can be applied. Perfect for: wood ash, compost, rotted manure. The earth must first be treated with a potassium permanganate solution.
Before sowing the seeds must be prepared. To do this, they must be sorted out and removed from them all not suitable for landing. Then the seed must be kept for 10 minutes in hot water. After this procedure, the beans will swell and become moist, which will affect the germination of seeds.
Seeds are also subject to treatment from pests. To do this, they must be disinfected with a solution of potassium permanganate or boric acid.
There are two ways to plant beans:
1. Wet. It consists in the following: a hole is made in the bed and filled with water. At the bottom lies compost and then seeds. From above everything is sprinkled with earth and sawdust.
Planting ends with abundant watering, after which you need to cover the top with a film. It is advisable to remove the film on the day, and at the first shoots you can completely remove it.
2. Dry. The planting technique is similar to the previous one, only the seeds are laid in dry soil. After planting, the seeds are covered with mulch, each hole needs a little watering.
After emergence, the mulch can be removed, and the soil must be cultivated.
If curly bean varieties are planted (wigny), then you need to install the supports in advance. They use 2 m high rails. They are installed at an angle. So the plant will be able to crawl along them, forming a powerful bush.
To protect plants from adverse weather, it is necessary to carry out hilling. If there is a chance of frost, it is advisable to cover the seedlings with a film. To ripen the fruit in a timely manner, the wattle fence that has reached a length of 2 m should be pinched.
Outdoor Bean Care
Caring for the crop is as follows: watering, loosening the soil, top dressing, getting rid of diseases and pests.
Watering is necessary once a week. During the ripening period of the fruit and flowering will have to be watered more often.
Lack of moisture can cause flowers and ovaries to fall. In addition, the taste of the culture will be at a low level.
Excess moisture is also unacceptable. Due to waterlogging, the leaves will grow greatly, which has a negative effect on the formation of fruits.
Top dressing. For beans, you do not need to additionally fertilize, it has enough nutrients that have been preserved in the soil after the predecessor. However, if low yields are expected, bird droppings or wood ash can be added.
Features of growing asparagus beans in the open field
Asparagus haricot is a healthy product. The technology of its cultivation is simple, and planting is carried out immediately in open ground.
To get a good harvest you need to follow the following rules:
- Landing is carried out in warm soil. Its temperature should correspond to 10 degrees.
- Asparagus bean sprouts are afraid of frost, at low temperature they die. Therefore, landing should be carried out no earlier than May.
- Seeds in the process of germination on the ground carry cotyledons. In this regard, the soil for planting must be loose, otherwise the seeds may not germinate. As precursors for the crop, it is best to choose potatoes, onions, tomatoes, carrots.
- For the good development of beans, the soil must be fertilized with organic fertilizers. The procedure is carried out in the autumn, and when spring comes, wood ash and compost are used. In addition, 2 times you need to make mineral fertilizers.
Features of growing green beans in open ground
To get a good harvest of green beans, you must adhere to the following rules:
- Soil moisture plays an important role in the development of culture. Lack of moisture will affect fruiting.
- It is necessary to get rid of weeds in a timely manner. To do this, periodically loosening the earth. In addition, this procedure will provide oxygen to the root system.
- After the buds have formed in the plant, fertilizers should be applied. To this end, grooves are made and fertilizer is applied directly to them. Top lightly sprinkled with earth.
When the seedlings have grown to 10 cm, the hilling is carried out. Thus, the roots are strengthened and their nutrition is improved.
- When the beans reach a length of more than 2 m, you need to pinch its tops. From this moment, plant growth stops.
- Mineral fertilizers are applied 3 times during the entire growing season.
Now you know how and what kinds of beans can be grown in open ground and how to care for them until you get the crop.
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