Growing Of Asparagus Cowpea Beans, Fruitful Varieties Of This Plant

2024 Author: Sebastian Paterson | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 13:47

Katyang asparagus beans

Many interesting and useful plants grow in our garden. There are several varieties of cowpea among them. Someone, perhaps, will hear about such a plant for the first time. Meanwhile, cowpea (Vigna unguiculata ssp. L.) is an annual climbing thermophilic plant with long fleshy asparagus beans reaching a meter in length.

It belongs to the legume family. She is originally from Central Africa. The cowpea also has other names - cowpeas or asparagus lobia. Depending on the variety, this crop can have a different color, length and shape. Moreover, its beans can grow up to one meter in length, and their diameter reaches two cm.

Juicy young cowpea blades with pulp filling the entire space between the valves are harvested when the seeds in the beans do not exceed the size of a wheat grain. Beans and seeds are very nutritious, contain a lot of protein, starch, vitamins A, B and C, mineral salts, calcium, iron and other useful substances. It is used both in cooking and for medicinal purposes, for example, by diabetics.

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And also used for diseases of the liver, kidneys, heart, pancreas, anemia. The cowpea pods contain sodium and potassium, so it is used for edema, helping to remove excess fluid from the body. It is recommended in fasting diets for obesity, it helps to get rid of extra pounds.

By the content of complete proteins, cowpea is ahead of fish and approaches meat with high nutritional value. Most often, young beans are used in food, which are added to soups, salads and casseroles. Also cowpea pods can be canned and frozen.

Since the bean curly bean, it needs support. It tolerates shading well, which is why we have grown it along with corn for many years. We sow this crop, and when the plants rise to a height of 20 cm, we carry out thinning, leaving a distance of 30 cm between the corn stalks. At the same time we carry out weeding and loosening of the rows there. Immediately after thinning, we plant cowpea beans to the corn.

As with all legumes, the cowpea has an asparagus shoulder blade that is long, green, and rich in nutrients. We prepare salads from them, preserve them - in general, we prepare the same dishes as from ordinary asparagus beans.

This plant is quite fruitful, therefore, in order to provide cowpea beans, say, such a family as ours - of 8 people, it is enough to have 20-30 bushes of this leguminous plant. In row spacings we sow it at a distance of 60-70 cm. In rows - 30 cm. 100-200 seeds are enough for 10 m². Harvest the green beans as they ripen. For grain (seeds) - when the beans are completely dry.

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Asparagus beans of the Chinese variety

We already have a small collection of seeds of various varieties of cowpea. I'll tell you about some of them:

The Chinese variety is an unusual curly beans. The pods are light green, up to 70 cm long, thin with a mild sweet taste. The most delicious young pods, they are fried, stewed, canned. Super-yielding, up to 4 kg per plant, red-brown seeds. A novelty in the garden, one of the varieties of asparagus beans, is extremely tasty, fruitful and decorative. The stem is curly, 2-3 m long, the shoulder blades are juicy, sweet, hanging down in a solid wall. Unpretentious, withstands acidic and alkaline soils, shading, drought-resistant, not affected by pests.

Variety Countess is a very fruitful vegetable crop with high nutritional value asparagus beans. In terms of complete proteins, it is ahead of fish and comes close to meat. Technical ripeness occurs 55-60 days after full germination. A climbing plant, branching with vigorous growth, trifoliate leaves and large flowers. The beans are straight with a beak, green, without parchment and fiber, juicy and fleshy 60 cm long, 1 cm wide, the attachment height of the beans is 35 cm, the total weight of the beans is 4.2-5.4 kg, the taste is excellent. They are used boiled, fried and canned. Seeds are oval, black, small. An excellent plant for vertical gardening.

Variety Long-fruited black - a mid-season plant (up to 80 days) up to three meters high, requires support. Pods are dark green, up to 1 m long, up to 1 cm in diameter, with a high fruit set. Prefers a sunny place, the seeds are black, round-oblong. High-yielding variety.

Liliana variety - beans up to 85 cm long, 0.5 cm in diameter, round, with a sweet, crispy, very tasty texture. Mid-season variety - 80-85 days pass from germination to the first collection of beans. A climbing plant up to four meters high, requires support. The beans in technical ripeness are weakly coiled, with a strong rough surface, long, rounded, light green, without parchment and fiber. The mass of 100 beans is 420-450 g. The seeds are reniform, medium-sized, violet-brown. Beans in technical ripeness are recommended for cooking and canning, as well as for stewing and frying.

Macaretti is a highly productive crop with high nutritional value asparagus beans. In terms of complete proteins, it is ahead of fish and comes close to meat. Technical ripeness occurs 60-65 days after full germination. The plant is climbing, branching, up to four meters high with vigorous growth, trifoliate leaves and large flowers. The beans are slightly curved, with a "beak", green, without a parchment layer and fiber, juicy and fleshy, 30-45 cm long, excellent taste. They are used boiled, fried, canned and frozen, they retain their color perfectly. Marketable yield 1.5 kg / m².

Korean Chinese asparagus beans

Jar Long variety - curly, mid-ripening variety (60-90 days), shoulder blades up to 50 cm, medium thickness, black grain, small, beans grow in clusters of 5-6 pieces, highly productive variety. The pods are good both stewed, fried, and canned.

Katyang variety - curly, medium early beans (up to 120 days), thin shoulder blades up to 10-12 cm long, growing in clusters up to 13 pieces, fine beige-brown grain with dark brown speck. High-yielding interesting variety.

Variety Korean "Chinese" - first bush beans, then twisted, green pods, thin 15-20 cm long, round, light brown seeds, small. Super-yielding variety with a long fruiting period, early. You can sow before winter, and can multiply by self-sowing.

Fairy variety - new from China! The plant is early maturing (55-65 days). Extremely fruitful, tasty and decorative beans. The stem is curly up to four meters, branching, well braids a large volume of support. Shoulder blades up to 16 cm long, numerous, slightly curved with a beak, delicate; sugary seeds of medium size, round-elongated, light beige with a brown spot in the middle. Universal use, high yield up to 4 kg per plant. They are sown into the ground in mid-May to a depth of 4-5 cm or through seedlings in April (planted in the ground without violating the integrity of the roots). Planting scheme: 10x30-40 cm.

Vigna is demanding on heat, unpretentious in maintenance, responsive to the introduction of organic and mineral fertilizers. Grown in sunny places with a garter to a strong vertical support, in the northern regions - in greenhouses. Harvesting the beans on the shoulder blade begins 8-10 days after the formation of ovaries. Frequent collection of young shoulder blades stimulates the formation of new ones. Tea brewed from dry shoulder blades is useful for diabetes mellitus, liver, kidney, heart, pancreas, anemia.

Valery Brizhan, experienced gardener

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