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How To Grow Legumes–Beans and Peas
Beans Once in Maine I saw a little rectangular garden filled with nothing but beans of all kinds. They climbed strings, poles, tripods and trellises. They made flower-decked boundaries around the plot....
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Best Methods For Growing Peas
Soil These vegetables need well-drained soil which is not at all acidic. Should a soil test show acidity, apply lime (ground chalk) at the rate of from 4 to 1 lb. Per square yard after winter digging....
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Easy Methods For Growing Beans
Broad Bean This is the only hardy garden bean. It is still common to place broad bean varieties into two groups— Windsors and Longpods. But newer varieties often have mixed ancestry. A true Windsor has...
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Ignore people who tell you to sow peas at carefully spaced intervals. Sow them thickly in wide trenches and they will need little support as the plants will help hold each other up. Choose one of the...
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Peas and Beans for Free
Peas and beans are very popular vegetables, which for convenience can be grouped together in one of the plots in the kitchen garden. Peas are hardy, and the first sowings can be made as early as...
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Runner And French Beans Cultivation
Runner and French dwarf beans are similar in character. They are only half hardy, and must be sown either under glass, or in the open in April or early May, so that they do not appear above the soil...
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Beans, Broad. Three types are grown — the Mazagon, Longpod, and the Windsor. The first is the hardiest, but inferior in other respects; the second is sufficiently hardy for autumn sowing in many...
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Digging should be done thoroughly as early in the autumn as possible. Dung or compost should be applied at the same time at the rate of 1 cwt. to 15 sq. yd. unless the peas are to be grown on ground...
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How to Cultivate Peas
Peas are excellent summer crops, which need a deeply cultivated soil. The first crop should be sown on light soil in a sunny, sheltered spot, in February. On heavy soil, however, this sowing should be...
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