Beans

Beans are one of the most versatile and common foods in the world, and many varieties are grown in the United States. Due to the nutritional composition of these economical products can improve the quality of diet and long-term health of those who regularly pick beans.

History

Archaeologists’ findings show that white beans were familiar to Indians in ancient times (beans found in the mouth of a mummy wrapped in cotton fibers). It was believed that in the afterlife the soul would not have to starve. The oldest of all beans is rightly considered to be “mash”, the golden bean of India. It is several thousand years older than Indian beans. Homeland beans – Central and South America.
There are drawings of Mexicans depicting the process of cooking beans and even the payment of its seeds.

Common bean is an annual plant with a branching herbaceous stem. It is very decorative both during flowering and at the time of fruiting. Depending on the variety, the beans reach a length of 5 to 25 cm. They also differ in the shape of the blades: it is both cylindrical and flattened, like a pea, and sword-shaped.

Since the mid-nineties of the last century, a sufficient number of varieties and hybrids of beans of domestic selection have been bred, there are also seeds of Dutch and German varieties on sale. All of them can be divided into three main groups: hulled or grain, semi-sugar and sugar or asparagus.

The shape of the beans is bush, semi-curling and curling. Bush plants are from 20 to 70 cm in height, semi-curly – no more than 1.5 meters, and the stems of curly forms reach a length of 5 m or more. Many choose bush varieties, they are usually more cold-resistant, precocious and compact. They are convenient to grow in a normal bed or, for example, along the planting of potatoes – no need to install special supports.

But curly beans also have their advantages. It is much more decorative, and it can be grown not in the garden, but in the garden and at the walls of the house, to wrap it with borders, terraces, balconies, to shade some areas. But we must remember: if you do not limit the growth of curly beans (pinch the top at a height of 2 m), the stems will stretch and stretch and the harvest will have to forget.

According to the terms of ripening, bean varieties are divided into early ripening (up to 65 days), middle-early (65-75 days), middle (75-85 days), middle-ripening (85-100 days) and late (more than 100 days).

Growing beans

It is a heat-loving and light-loving plant, but it is grown by sowing seeds directly into the soil in late May – early June. It is possible to establish more precisely time of planting of beans independently, it is sown simultaneously with cucumbers, that is when it is possible not to be afraid of frosts any more. Beans grow best on light, fertile, drained soil. Before planting in the bed make humus or compost. Bush beans are grown on ridges in three rows and planted in a checkerboard pattern. When sowing in the hole put two pre-soaked grains to a depth of 3-6 cm (depending on the mechanical composition of the soil, on the lungs – deeper). The distance between the holes – 20-30 cm, rows – 30-45 cm. Before sowing semi-curly and curly varieties of beans, you must install strong supports made of stakes or wooden slats (plastic and metal are not suitable, as the plant will not be able to “catch” them) 2–2.5 m high. Make a hole next to each support, in which 2 grains are placed to a depth of 5 cm. The distance between the holes is 15 cm. To give stability to the stems, the ascended sprouts are pruned. Shoots appear in 5-7 days, they are very sensitive to frost. At threat of cooling cover shoots with a spunbond or other covering material. Adult plants can withstand short-term light frosts. The optimum temperature for plant growth and development is 20–25 ° С. Caring for beans is regular weeding, watering (in hot dry weather) and loosening between rows. To minimize watering and weeding, the soil can be mulched. The beans (shovels) are harvested two to three weeks after flowering.

We sell bean seeds – white long, white round, grades Maslyanka, Sugar. Ripe bean seeds are a hearty product with an energy value of 100 g of 292 kcal. But this is not the most important thing: bean seeds contain up to 23% protein, so it is often called ‘vegetable meat’. In addition, beans are rich in minerals (potassium, magnesium, iron) and vitamins (B2, PP). Beans are a high-protein food crop. It contains 24-30% of well-digested protein, up to 2% of sugars, up to 22 mg% of ascorbic acid (vitamin C).

Sale:
16 UA. per kg.
Purchase:
10 UA. per kg.

Benefits

Beans for diabetes
In diabetes, use bean flaps: 2-3 glasses of replaceable bean flaps pour 3-4 glasses of water. Correct for 10-15 minutes on low heat. Strain. Ask 4 times a day for half an hour 30 minutes before leaving.

Beans for pancreatitis
Chronic pancreatitis also flies bean flaps: 2-3 tablespoons of dry flaps continue in full soot in a thermos for 5 hours. Drink 3-4 times 30 minutes before eating.
Traditional healers replace that where beans are used at least once a Sunday, there are no baked, initial, fecal and tartar stones. Bedsores, preparation in children for centuries of bean flour: roasted grain pounded into flour.

Beans in cosmetology
Bean flour was the oldest and most famous cosmetic product.
One of the best masks from the arsenal of Cleopatra: wipe the cooked warm face, add vegetable oil, honey or sea buckthorn juice. The skin lives smooth, velvety, elastic, small wrinkles disappear.