How to plant wrong dragon beans, your family can't eat them all

Table of contents

1. Tools for growing dragon beans
2. Choose the land to grow dragon beans
3. Selection of dragon bean varieties
4. How to Sow Dragon Beans
5. How to take care of the dragon bean plant
6. Harvest dragon beans
1. Tools for growing dragon beans
You can plant wide beans anywhere you want, you can plant bare land in the garden, terrace, foam box, pot, cement bag, etc. The place where dragon beans are planted must be well drained, if To waterlogged the plant will die, so remember to punch holes in the bottom of the container, pot.

2. Choose the land to grow dragon beans
Dragon beans can be grown on many different types of soil, but for high yield and good quality beans should be planted on humus-rich soil, light soil, moist and well-drained soil.

3. Selection of dragon bean varieties
Dragon beans can be grown from seeds or cuttings, but when you first plant them, you should get seeds from old pods or buy seeds and plant them for germination. In order for the dragon beans to be fruitful, you must plant the best quality seeds. Old dragon beans are usually purple in color and gradually turn black. Let it dry and then separate, you will see the dragon beans inside. Choosing shiny, brown and round seeds to sow will give a high germination rate.

4. How to Sow Dragon Beans
Before sowing, you must soak the seeds for 1-2 hours in warm water about 30-40 degrees Celsius. Doing so helps the plants have a higher germination rate. When the seeds are soaked, take them out into a damp towel, incubate for half a day, wait for the seeds to crack, sprout, and then sow.

After checking the dragon beans for cracking, proceed to sow the seeds. Each hole you grow 2-3 seeds and the distance between each hole is 25-30 cm. After sowing, cover with a layer of soil about 1cm thick, then water. should not be covered so thickly and tightly that the seeds should not germinate. To keep the seeds moist, cover the beds with straw.

After about 4-5 days the seeds begin to sprout longer. After 7-10 days, the tree is about 5-10 cm tall. At this time, you choose the big, strong, fast seedlings to plant and discard the small, stunted and weak seedlings.

If growing dragon beans in pots or styrofoam containers, mix the soil with powdered lime, organic fertilizer, coir, rice husk ash, then sow the dragon beans in each pot about 5-6 seeds depending on the size of the pot. Light watering to moisten the soil and cover with rice husk ash, thin coco coir will help seeds germinate quickly. After about 4-5 days, the seeds will germinate.

5. How to take care of the dragon bean plant
Dragon pea plants are very easy to grow without much fertilizer, just water enough moisture for the plant to grow. Growing dragon beans is mainly watered with urea and NPK fertilizer diluted with water to irrigate the beans with 3 stages, the stage when the plant has 2-3 true leaves, then water with urea to dilute the water 5-7cm from the base of the tree.

When the tree has 3-4 leaves, we proceed to cultivate the soil at the base of the tree, irrigate with urea nitrogen, then proceed to plug the piles from 1.5 to 2m high for climbing beans, plant the truss in the shape of A, can give Perch on the fence, balcony, …

After making a truss for dragon pea plants, after 10-15 days, dragon pea plants will grow quickly, this time it is necessary to fertilize more rotting manure to provide more nutrients for the plants.

At the time of planting dragon beans, after 40-50 days, the tree will climb to cover the truss. At this time, it is necessary to trim the branches and leaves so that the tree can focus on flowering and fruiting. The stage when the dragon pea plant is flowering, it must be watered with a lot of water and applied more potassium fertilizer, the new tree will have more flowers and more fruit.

Dragon pea flowers grow in clusters from the leaf axils, after about 2-3 days, the flowers will pollinate and gradually pap the fruit. About 1 week after the flower withers, the broad beans will grow quickly and reach maturity with a length of 15-20 cm, the dragon beans are dark green for harvest.