Beans!

[digitS']

Soybeans, that is!

This is their 3rd year in my garden. I find them just about trouble-free! Wow! What else could I say that about???

Steve

 

[lesa]

Isn't that fascinating, Steve. I planted some that you shared with me- and they have been the dinner special, for every bug in my garden! In fact they were so damaged, when they were small, I thought they wouldn't survive...but, they did, and they look good now. I notice the beans are kind of sharp and hairy?? When can I use them as edamame?
Yours look perfect!

 

[digitS']

Wow! Lesa!

Those bugs will teach you to get so far ahead of me !

Maybe it is because there are no soybean fields here, anywhere! This must be considered too far north for soybeans to be seen as worthwhile, commercially. So, maybe the soybean bugs are elsewhere . . .

You have to put up with them right up until about the time they are fully mature. Maybe 2 weeks before I went ahead and cut them to bring in to dry, I began using the seed as edamame. I'm afraid it makes for kind of a short edamame season but maybe staggering the plantings would work where there is a longer season for the soybeans.

Steve