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| Does anyone here living in Utah? Or, does anyone know if I can plant either lima beans or black eye peas here? I live in Salt Lake City. I grow a lot of vegetables, but the only beans I've seen here are the polebean types, and the only peas are the green English peas. I do have a small greenhouse, but there is no heater in it. Thanks for any help you can give me. |
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| If they can grow peas and pole beans in your area then there isn't any reason why you can't grow any variety you wish - pole or bush. How many average days of warm, frost-free gardening do you have? If less than 120 pick a variety of limas that are closer to the 60-75 DTM like Henderson Bush rather than the 90-100 DTM. Plant them 10-15 days after your last frost. Soil temp needs to be at least 60 degrees. Black eyed peas basically the same. Just pick one of the shorter DTM varieties - bush or pole - if your season is less than 120 days. Dave |
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- Posted by AiliDeSpain 5a (My Page) on Sun, Mar 3, 13 at 0:38
| I live in Utah and am planning on growing edamame this year. Not sure the relation to lima and black eyed peas but I am sure you could give them a go and see what happens. Good Luck! |
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- Posted by sayhellonow (My Page) on Sun, Mar 10, 13 at 23:10
| Thank you so much, Dave and A.D.S. Yes, we do grow pole beans here, and they do very well. I'm excited to know that someone's growing edamames, and I hope you'll post a photo when they mature. I'm from the South, and love black eye peas -- out here, they're called beans, grin. Dave, I'm ordering the Henderson Bush, and keeping my fingers crossed. Thanks again for the info! Carolyn |
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| Limas might need a soil temperature above 60 degrees. We usually plant them here after common beans. Check recommendations at Territorial Seed for daylength sensitivity in soybean varieties for edamame, recommended blackeyes or other cowpeas, ets. If you're interested in beans grown for their seeds instead of or in addition to pods, many common bean varieties are good candidates as well. You can also grow runner beans (bush or pole) in SLC. Be sure you cook the mature bean seeds before eating them (good advice for other beans, too). There are some new runner/common bean hybrids out now, too. They sound interesting. Haven't tries them. |
Here is a link that might be useful: Tenderstar runner/common pole bean
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| Lima requires higher nighttime temps and a longer warm season than common beans. Where I am, for instance, both factors make production of lima not worth the space. The shorter-season cowpeas do pretty good, though, so the two do not have identical requirements. |
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