A Detailed Guide to Spring Planting Time and Methods for Yardlong Beans
The time to plant yardlong beans in spring is February to March; the soil only needs to be fairly loose, fertile and well drained. Routine field management mainly consists of watering before flowering and setting up trellises after the seedlings grow to 20 cm.
A Detailed Guide to Spring Planting Time and Methods for Yardlong Beans
1. Choosing and Preparing the Land
Yardlong beans are fairly adaptable and are not very demanding about the land, but if the soil is fairly fertile, the yield will certainly be better. When preparing the land, dig as deep as possible, and spread an appropriate amount of fertilizer as a base fertilizer while preparing the land to ensure the soil has a certain level of fertility.
2. Sowing Methods
There are two ways to sow yardlong beans. The first is to dig holes at a certain spacing in the prepared land, put three to five seeds in each hole, apply fertilizer beside them, and then cover the seeds with soil. When spreading fertilizer, do not let the fertilizer come close to the seeds; if the fertilizer touches the seeds, it may burn them and reduce the germination rate. The second way is to first choose a small patch of land, sow the seeds, cover them with a layer of plastic film, wait until the seeds germinate, remove the film, water them, and then, when the seedlings grow to 5-6 cm, pull them up and transplant them at a certain spacing. After transplanting, if there is no rain, water them, otherwise the seedlings will wither and die.
3. Field Management
Watering should be done before flowering, especially for transplanted seedlings, to encourage them to grow new roots again. Yardlong bean seedlings grow as climbers, so to increase yield and make harvesting easier, we generally set up trellises once the seedlings grow to about 30 cm. During the flowering period of yardlong beans, fertility should be replenished, as this can increase the pod-setting rate of the beans, that is, increase the yield of yardlong beans.