Legumes Level 2 MGV Training, 2013 By Sharon Morrisey Consumer - PDF document

4/22/2013 Legumes Legumes Legumes Level 2 MGV Training, 2013 By Sharon Morrisey Consumer Horticulture Agent Milwaukee County UW ‐ Extension Legumes: Peas (family: Fabaceae) • Very early season and fall • Growth habits: – For fall add 10 days to days to – Determinate – bushy; mature harvest before first frost all at once • Types: – Indeterminate – vining; harvest spread out; need – Garden peas (English or support shelling peas) – Snap peas – edible pod and full ‐ sized seeds – Snow peas – pod only; flat • Varieties: – Snow peas – Garden peas • Dwarf Gray Sugar • Little Marvel (63 days; 18”) (65; 24 ‐ 30”) • Frosty (64; 28”) • Oregon Sugar Pod II • Wando (70; 24 ‐ 30”; (68; 24 ‐ 30”) withstands some heat) • Mammoth Melting Sugar (68; 4 ‐ 5’) 1

4/22/2013 • Can plant in 45 degree soil • Soak a couple hours to speed germination – Snap peas • Innoculate with Rhizobium • Sugar Snap (74; 5 ‐ 6’; sp. bacteria which fix nitrogen in nodules on the original snap pea) roots • Early Snap (60; 18 ‐ 22”) – Not needed if legumes have been grown there before • Plant in single or double rows – Self supporting ‘Cascadia’ Sugar Snap • No additional fertilizer is needed Legumes: • Bush Beans (family: Fabaceae) – Green • Contender • Tender, warm season • Blue Lake 274 – Seeds rot if planted in cold soil • Bush Kentucky • Snap beans bred to be Wonder stringless • Dandy (filet type) • Pods – green, yellow (wax), purple, round, flat • Roma II (flat) (Romano) – Yellow • Seeds – white, speckled, • Yellow pencil pod pink, red, black, green • Types: • Slenderwax – Bush beans – Purple – Pole beans • Royal Burgundy – Dry beans – Soybeans • Pole • Other: – Green – Soybeans (edamame) – Garbanzo (chick peas) • Blue Lake – Fava (broad beans) • Kentucky Wonder • Dry • Scarlet runner type – Scarlet – Lima (or immature) Runner(heirloom) – Cowpeas (Blk.eyed peas) – Red Knight – Black Turtle – Dwarf Bees – Mung (sprouting) – Adzuki 2

4/22/2013 • Harvesting • Plant after the ff date – For “green beans” – Can try 7 ‐ 10 days • when pods are full earlier but only part of sized but seeds inside are small the crop – For fresh beans like • Plant every 2 – 4 lima weeks until early • Seeds are full ‐ sized August but not starchy – For dry beans – Not as necessary if • leave until seeds are kept harvested completely dry. • No fertilizer needed – • Pests: they fix their own on – Bean leaf beetles – Mexican bean beetles root nodules – Japanese beetles UW ‐ Extension in the Garden • All segments are on the Fox 6 TV Website 3