My Soybeans Are Doing There Job

[freedhardwoods]

I planted them a little later than normal (like everything else this year) and didn't know if they would get big enough to gather much nitrogen. The cool weather must have kicked them into high gear. It doesn't show very well in the pic, but there are several nodules on the roots. The plant is laying on a 2x6.

 

[canesisters]

And then... ? You compost them? Till them under???

 

[freedhardwoods]

Mow them with the lawn mower and till them in.

I know lots of people compost. I think it's a waste of time.

 

[Pulsegleaner]

Hmm, if that's what you are doing with them, remind me to contact you the next time I get some packages of those little black climbing soybeans I sometimes find in Chinatown. They aren't the best vis a vis producing actual PODS (I think they may want a longer season that I have up here) but they are GREAT at putting green biomass on (they turn into a green tangle in a matter of weeks, to the point where collecting the few pods they DO make becomes almost a jungle adventure!)

 

[digitS']

I don't know what I did wrong with my soybeans this year. They produced very poorly. This is the second year for such poor performance.

The plants did so very well through several years, it isn't easy for me to understand. The growing season was warmer than usual. Even varieties that had trouble making a good crop when I was trialing them 4 or 5 years ago, had good looking plants. Not true lately.

I dig beds and bury compostables, @freedhardwoods . Even what might be called my compost "pile" is semi- subterranean. I use that compost to mulch the potatoes and in combination with other things as a potting mix for perennial plants.

Steve