So glad I found you! I'm growing lima beans for the first time and it's so fun! Mine are not quite ready to harvest, but we are getting there! I'm in NE Florida and we are DRY - no rain for so long! Watering with city water - yuk! Thanks for your tips for harvesting! Can't wait to see more from you!

I grew Lima beans last year and I did not know when to harvest them so thanks you for telling me

I can't believe I've missed y'alls channel so far, I'm looking forward to your next video as much as this year's lima bean harvest.

@Gardenerd

Жыл бұрын

Glad you found us!

Very informative, thank you.

Thanx for the info.

Good info, thanks.

@Gardenerd

Жыл бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

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Yes you can pick & shell them when they are full & green. Just rinse & blanch them in salt water then freeze.

When I watch garden posts, I wish each vid would start with WHERE the garden is located. Some sites do say which environment they are referring to, some don't. I believe that Gardenerd is in the LA, California area? Is that correct?

@Gardenerd

9 ай бұрын

That is correct. We are in Los Angeles, near Venice Beach.

Do you have a source for those carolina sieva bean seeds? Can't find them anywhere.

@Gardenerd

Жыл бұрын

Both Seed Savers Exchange and Southern Exposure Seed Exchange have them in stock. I believe I got mine from one of them.

Hi. I experimented with Lima beans this year and figured the pods had to have a full look before harvesting fresh but a lot of the pods on my plants are falling off the vine prematurely. Do you know why? Maybe the plants need more water??? Thanks Gardennuerd.

@Gardenerd

10 ай бұрын

Sorry to hear that. Without knowing your growing conditions, it's hard to say what might be the problem. It could be water, but it could be that the soil is in a state where nutrients aren't available to the plant. Meaning that something could be blocking nutrient uptake (compaction, lack of good soil microbial populations, high zinc, etc). If your beans are grown in a container, yes, they need water and nutrients more often. If you're growing in the ground, test your soil for nutrient levels. If they are abundant, then it's probably one of the above-mentioned scenarios. Beans typically store nitrogen in their roots until beans start to form. Then the plant uses up the stored nitrogen to make beans. So it's technically a nitrogen neutral plant at that stage. Fruiting crops still need phosphorus and potassium to make fruit. A plant will abort what it can't support. So check those levels. That's my best guess with the information you've provided.

Can you please tell me where I can purchase the Carolina Sieva butter bean. I can’t find them anywhere. Any help would be greatly appreciated by me and my daughter who loves them. Thanks

@Gardenerd

Жыл бұрын

I have seen them for sale on Seed Savers Exchange, and Southern Exposure Seed Exchange. At the time of this comment posting, SeedSavers appears to be out of stock. I did a quick search for "carolina sieva beans" and got a few small seed companies as a result like TrueLove Seeds and Firefly Farm & Mercantile. Check those out.

So, are the pods edible at anytime, or for lima variety you only can eat the beans?

@Gardenerd

Жыл бұрын

The pods are very fibrous, so I don't recommend eating them. Shell them first, and if they are young you only have to shell the bean from the pod, not the second inner bean. Once they mature, they have to be shelled twice.

DO THE PLANTS CONTINUE TO PRODUCE FLOWERS/BEANS THROUGHOUT THAT WHOLE 1.5 YEARS OR DO YOU HAVE TO DO SOMETHING SPECIAL? THANKS! 🙏

@Gardenerd

Жыл бұрын

I recall there being a dormancy period where they don't produce, but they start back up again once the weather warms up.

Christmas Lima Beans are my favorite bean to grow and eat. I also grow King of the Garden. Happy Gardening from Z10b Southern California sunset zone 24

@Gardenerd

Жыл бұрын

Ooh, I'll have to look out for that one. I'm always game to try new varieties.

I live in northern MN and tried growing lima beans this year. We've had a pretty warm summer and the plants did well, however I was about a month late planting. They are not the pole beans, but the bush lima type. next week it will be in the 60's and I'm wondering if you can cut the long vine that the pods grow on, and hang them to dry. I'm not sure they're ready to pick, but I have such a short growing season. And, what happens if you pick them while they're not too filled out?

@Gardenerd

9 ай бұрын

Leaving them attached to the cut vine is a good idea to help them finish ripening indoors. If they don't ripen and fully dry out, they may shrivel up and rot. But your plan seems like a good one to test out. I know some people pull the whole plant and hang it upside down indoors to finish the process. That seems to work really well.

I saw a video of a woman in India and she cooked the entire green pods in a pot and then mashed them up with spices to make a dip they were dipping bread in

@Gardenerd

Жыл бұрын

Ooh, nifty idea. Thanks for sharing.

Please someone tell me why they are saying the pods have to be dried out. I picked a bunch of them not knowing this in the green pods but the beans were the correct size and then just dried them on a tray out of the pods. I don’t understand why everyone is always saying the pods have to be dry but they never say why

@Gardenerd

Жыл бұрын

The likelihood of rot increases if the beans are not dry when harvested. That said, if your conditions are not soggy (rain, humidity, etc) the beans will most likely dry just fine after being shelled while green. Also - if you are saving the beans for seeds, seed maturity is often very different than plant maturity. For example, cucumbers: we pick them green to eat them, but the seeds are not mature for growing next year until the fruit turns yellow (well past the desired eating stage). I hope this helps.

@starlessmystery6429

Жыл бұрын

@@Gardenerd yes it did. Thank you 🙂

@starlessmystery6429

Жыл бұрын

@@Gardenerd I dry all of my herbs, seeds, everything on trays in the refrigerator….even things like lemon and lime and tangerine zest. Dries faster with no humidity

@Gardenerd

Жыл бұрын

@@starlessmystery6429 Great idea. I hadn't heard that before.

You don't need to trellis them if the are a bush variety

@Gardenerd

Жыл бұрын

Correct. We grow both bush and pole varieties, and the bush varieties don't need a trellis. We were demonstrating on a pole variety, and those need a trellis.