Asparagus peas (photo of tetragonolobus) planting and care, my feedback on growing
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HOW TO GROW A WINGED ASPARAGUS TETRAGONOLOBUS
Every year my garden changes a little. Firstly, I love planting and sowing new crops, and secondly, I select the most delicious and unpretentious ones from them. This time I want to talk about the experience of growing tetragonolobus, or winged asparagus peas, it is also called purple tetragon (tetragonolobus purpureus)... This annual plant belongs to the legume family.
In Southeast Asia, these peas are eaten completely - from the roots to the P 'crown. Flowers decorate dishes and use them as a natural dye for rice. Delicate leaves are added to salads (nodules formed on the roots are boiled and fried - they supposedly have a delicate consistency and nutty taste. Well, from-j pods are steamed and eaten with butter. And the beans are second only to soybeans in protein content Seductive?
I decided to grow a new culture for myself using approximately the same technology as ordinary peas. I picked up a sunny bed for her, applied complex fertilizer in spring and sowed seeds in early May, having previously germinated them. I covered it to a depth of 1,5-2 cm.I left 40 cm between rows, and 10 cm between plants in a row.
Reference by topic: Purple Pea Varieties - Name and Description
Shoots appeared quickly. In contrast to the same peas, in the tetragonolobus, the stem begins to branch out already at the base. So instead of free-standing bushes on the garden bed, we got a relatively flat carpet. The plants turned out to be low, they rose about 30-35 cm from the ground for me, so they perfectly held each other without support.
When the buds opened, the peas became the star of the site. When friends came, everyone asked what kind of exotic it was. Elegant, red as venous blood, moth flowers against a background of light green looked very unusual.
Flowering in asparagus peas, like in other legumes, is extended in time, the fruits ripen from July to September.
Pods are fleshy, about 4 cm long, with four longitudinal wing outgrowths.
Perhaps it is because of them that the four-winged wing was named so. Peas are edible at a young age, but the taste, to be honest, was not impressed. They say that it resembles asparagus ... Well, I don't know, I was not among the fans. I tried to eat it raw, very young and mature, boiled it, fried it ...
Nothing saved.
The grains are tiny, slightly larger than a match head. I did not notice a special taste in them, ordinary peas are much more interesting. The beans under butter, stewed whole and in pieces, also did not cause much emotion. As well as the yield. And what is only the search for pods in the "bushes" of greenery! The nodules on the roots did not reach "food" sizes at all.
In general, after the first year of cultivation, I would definitely exclude asparagus peas from the number of vegetable crops. As a decorative one, you can use it in a mixborder or in a flowerpot. Although there will be more benefits (and beauty) from marigolds.
ASPARUS PEAS - GROWING, PLANTING AND CARE - TIPS AND FEEDBACK FROM GARDENERS
ASPARUS PEA: MY WONDERFUL DISCOVERY
I always sow a lot of vegetable peas, and then a bag of seeds of a crop completely unknown to me caught my eye - asparagus peas. Acquired - I wanted to try to grow a novelty.
She sowed asparagus peas immediately in open ground (a little later than ordinary peas, at the end of May) in an open sunny bed. Waited for the emergence of shoots for a long time. I didn't expect anything to come out of this. Sinned on the quality of the seeds. Now I understand that before sowing, it was necessary to soak them for a day or two in water for faster germination. Two weeks later, the long-awaited sprouts finally appeared.
Subsequently, the plants were thinned out at a distance of 20 cm in a row (row spacing - 45 cm).
Asparagus peas simply fascinated me with their unusual flowering.
After all, we are used to the fact that peas bloom with nondescript white flowers. And then she came to the site - and was stunned: the bushes were strewn with bright red flowers! The plants themselves turned out to be compact, no more than 40 cm high.
After flowering, fleshy tetrahedral pods were tied on them. Harvest began to be harvested when the length of the pods reached 3-5 cm (if they outgrow, they will darken and become tasteless).
I watered the plants regularly.
Without watering and in the heat, the culture also grows, but it will not bloom so profusely. The rest of the care was ordinary: weeding, loosening.
Interestingly, you can eat everything from asparagus peas: from tops to roots. Pods taste like asparagus, they can be eaten raw, or you can fry, stew, marinate, they are fleshy and tasty. Young leaves are eaten as greens. And the beans, when ripe, can be ground and used as a coffee substitute.
FACT: SCIENTIFICLY THE PLANT IS CALLED A FOUR-WINGED PURPLE OR TETRAGONOLO-BUS. PEA IS VERY POPULAR IN ENGLAND. IT IS SAYED THAT THE CULTURE WAS ONE OF THE BRITISH QUEEN ELIZABETH II'S MOST FAVORITE.
© Author: Julia KUPINA, Belgorod region.
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