It is very difficult, even impossible to say, to imagine our table without beans . In its small grains is hidden a treasury of nutrients and trace elements, so necessary for the human body. What, if not the bean, is able to fully satisfy the human need for protein? But enough to sing beans odes, let's talk better about how to grow it from seeds in the country.
How to grow beans?
That the work spent on the cultivation of beans is not wasted, it must be properly planted:
- Land for planting should be well illuminated and located in a place not subject to groundwater stagnation.
- The soil on the site must be loose and well-permeable to water and air. Most of the beans like soils are slightly alkaline and neutral, but even weakly acidic soil does not become an obstacle to a good harvest.
- Grain before planting should definitely be sorted, putting aside all with traces of even the slightest damage. To accelerate the process of germination, they must be soaked in warm water for the night before planting.
- Prepared in this way, the beans are planted in the selected place, leaving 15 cm intervals between them. To deepen the beans should be 5-6 cm. It is most convenient to do this by making a hole in each soil for a stick.
- As soon as the first sprouts appear, the garden with beans should be loosened, while removing the weeds. Then loosening the beds should be repeated every time the soil on it is covered with a crust.
- Feed the garden with beans only if the plants on it look weak and stunted. In other cases, feeding can lead to the fact that the bean will go into the greens and will not give a good harvest.
- Beans should be watered regularly, while avoiding stagnation of water in the garden.
- The beans ripen not simultaneously, therefore it is necessary to collect it step by step.