Vegetable Beans

2024 Author: Gavin MacAdam | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 13:38

Vegetable beans are the same age as bronze. It is possible that in those epic times they grew in the wild, but today they can only be found as a cultivated plant. They enrich the soil with nitrogen, a vital chemical for plants, and repel pests from representatives of the Solanaceae family. Children and adults love to feast on vegetable beans. Beans have healing powers and replace meat for many people on the planet

The oldest culture

Archaeologists, excavating settlements of people who lived four to six thousand years ago, along with bronze items, find evidence that in those days people not only knew how to make an alloy of copper and tin, but also grew vegetable beans to maintain their strength.

The nutritional value of beans

The ease of growing vegetable beans is combined with their extremely high nutritional value. They owe this to the unique composition of the elements. Beans are one quarter protein and two quarters carbohydrates. To this is added a number of vitamins: B1, B2, C, PP.

The best precursor for all vegetables

Vegetable beans are one of the few plants after which you can safely plant any cultivated vegetable on this site. The reason lies in the unique ability of the beans to enrich the soil with nitrogen, the main nutrient for plants, and improve the structure of the soil.

Pest defender

The scent of white or slightly pinkish flowers attracts beneficial insects to the garden, including hardworking bees. But such malicious eaters of greens as the Colorado potato beetle, which is capable of leaving the gardener without a crop of potatoes, tomatoes, eggplants, with its fertility and gluttony, a vegetable bean, is able to pacify, reducing losses.

True, the plant itself is attacked by an equally gluttonous pest - aphids. There is a special technique to fight the tireless enemy of the gardener. I do not know how this works, but if after the end of the flowering of the beans the tops of the shoots are pinched, the enemy will be defeated. I read the advice in an old book (1973 edition). I did not try it myself, because aphids do not like to settle in my semi-wild garden.

Stay on the beans

Popular wisdom warns young discerning girls that if you “build” yourself as a princess and a pea for a long time, you can stay “on the beans”. In this wisdom lies the centuries-old association of vegetable beans with the food of the poor.

For many countries in Asia and Africa, such an association is still relevant today. Anyone who has visited the countries of North Africa or Southeast Asia will confirm this.

For Europeans and citizens of our country, this is not so relevant. Today's interest in the cultivation of vegetable beans is rather the opposite. Beans are recommended for nutrition for people who want to maintain a slim figure, elasticity of blood vessels and clarity of mind. People with diabetes should pay particular attention to adding beans to their diet.

The healing properties of vegetable beans

So that young girls do not stay "on beans", you can maintain the beauty and elasticity of the skin of the face, periodically washing your face with a decoction or infusion of bean flowers.

To accelerate the "ripening" of the boil, you should apply a gruel of beans cooked in milk to the sore spot.

In case of inflammation in the intestines, kidneys, liver, dishes from boiled mashed beans are the most useful and healing ones. Can be used for treatment and decoction of beans.

Growing

Beans are very seasoned vegetables, and therefore they are not afraid of frost. Therefore, they are planted in early spring, immediately in open ground.

You can give them a personal bed, or you can use them as a curtain plant in beds with tomatoes, peppers, and other representatives of leguminous plants. Often, beans are used to compact cucumber beds or potato fields. Seeds are planted to a depth of 5-8 centimeters.

Bean maintenance consists of loosening and weeding. In dry times, abundant watering is required.