Problem with Soybeans

[seedcorn]

For south of IN, use a group 4 soybean, if it's never had soybeans grown on the land, soybean innoculate will help.

For the far north, go w/earlier and earlier soybean varieties, like a group 0. If you don't care if they ripen, just want green soybeans, go ahead w/a later variety.

What makes a soybeans earlier vs. later is when they stop blooming not when they start.

Soybeans do not like transplanted, can presprout and hand plant the beans, but really won't gain that much time.

 

[digitS']

Hey! look what I came across trying to figure out what Seedcorn's "group 0" is:

Edamame and "Gardensoy," National Soybean Research Laboratory.

I got the varieties I grew last year from a gardener in Wisconsin who enjoys saving seed and growing unusual things in his vegetable garden. In the photograph, GL 2216 is the variety you can see and Bei is farther down the row. (Sapporo Midor is behind me and the camera so you don't see how poorly it emerged . . . oh well, it really didn't have time to mature that seed, last year.)

I really have had no other experience with edamame and don't even really know if I have appropriate varieties. But, it sure was tasty!

Steve

 

[digitS']

I kinda had a problem holding the cellphone on this picture . . . The soybeans have stayed healthy and are above 2 feet tall in this row. (I'm still making sure that you don't see the miserable performance of Sapporo Midori behind me. Actually, they've grown well enuf even if germination was terrible and I don't expect them to mature soon enuf . . . :/)

Anyway! There have been blooms and now, tiny pods! If there's several more weeks to the growing season, there will be edamame!

Steve

 

[digitS']

Commodity Farmer Steve here!

This is about one-half the soybean harvest. We had a nice lot of edadame out of these beans. Now, they are suitable for tofu . . . or, a little cooking for the hens.

The remainder of the plants are still drying under cover. I will lay those out on a tarp and stomp on them in a couple of days.

digitS'

 

[lesa]

Hey, very cool! Are you really going to make tofu?? Do tell....

 

[digitS']

Well, let's just say that I know how to make tofu.

It really is this simple: Making Tofu.

Along with mushrooms, onions, vegetable broth and soy sauce - I can make a pretty good main course. However, that is about the extent of my tofu repertoire .

S'

 

[lesa]

Isn't that interesting? I had no idea that was all there was to it... Were you able to get soybeans that weren't GMO? Do they taste much better than the ones in the supermarket? How much of your garden space did you devote to get that harvest?

 

[digitS']

Were you able to get soybeans that weren't GMO? The seed was sent to me by a gardener in Wisconsin. He is quite a seed saver and I'm quite sure that these were not US commercial varieties.

Do they taste much better than the ones in the supermarket? I had never eaten edamame until I grew these myself. Recently, I learned that it is available in some restaurants as a salad ingredient.


How much of your garden space did you devote to get that harvest? Too much! Well, maybe not.

This is certainly not soybean country. I know of zero acres of soybeans hereabouts so this may not represent the yield they would have somewhere else. Still, the plants looked healthy and matured a crop before frost. (That was important and the Wisconsin gardener sent me a number of varieties - most didn't do very well and, like that Sapporo Midori, seemed to have trouble producing viable seed.)

I just went out and put that seed on the scale. It amounts to 2.5 pounds. Now, if I'd just measured the row . . . I'll guess that this is from about 30 to 40 feet of the row. So, I guess they produced about 3/4 pound per 10 feet. Also, I'll guess that I planted about 1/2 pound of seed back on the 16th of June.

I don't feel like this information amounts to much . . .

S'