Curly Fiery Red Beans: Growing Instructions. Dolichos (hyacinth beans, Egyptian beans): secrets to successful growing from seed
At the word beans, a person intuitively imagines a leguminous culture in front of him, which has been used for food since ancient times. But it turns out that there is a type of bean that can still be used in decorative purposes, such a plant is popular and well known to almost all gardeners and flower growers. The beans of the ornamental climbing plant can also be eaten, except for the purple bean variety.
Among flower lovers, curly beans are often used in their summer cottages for decorative purposes, as it is easy to plant and the plant is unpretentious in care. Therefore, novice flower growers often decorate their gardens and plots with such a plant. In addition, the bean has many other advantages, thanks to which it has gained such popularity.
Advantages of decorative beans
All over the world there are great amount different varieties curly beans, of which the most popular can be identified.
Planting ornamental beans
Like most plants, it can be planted directly from seed in open ground or first for seedlings. Any method is good in its own way, so which one to choose is up to everyone. With any method used, landing will give nice results, if you observe some nuances.
Planting for seedlings
In order for the seedlings to grow and get stronger before planting in open ground, experts advise sowing ornamental beans at the end of March. But before you start sowing, you need to prepare containers in advance, it is best to use peat pots, which can be bought at any specialized store. Beans do not need to be pre-sprouted Therefore, unsprouted seeds are placed in pots to a depth of no more than 1.5 centimeters. Place one seed in each pot. Next, you need to moisten the soil and leave it alone until germination. For maximum comfort, seedlings should be in a room with a temperature of +18 to +22 ⁰ C.
When the plant reaches 10 centimeters in height, it will be necessary to make a support for it. It is necessary to transplant seedlings in open ground to a permanent place before inflorescences begin to form on it. And also for better adaptation, seedlings are planted along with the land in which it grew.
Landing in open ground
It is necessary to plant curly beans with seeds in open ground when the threat of night frosts has passed. The main guideline for beginner flower growers is the planting of cucumbers, which, like beans, are afraid of frost. Therefore, sowing must be done in the first half of May, when the soil warms up to the required temperature (from +12 to +14 ⁰ C). A place for landing is chosen such that it is well warmed up by the sun. And also experts advise planting beans in the area where potatoes, tomatoes, cucumbers or cabbage grew before. Seeds for planting will need to be prepared in advance, for this, the beans are poured with a solution of potassium permanganate (1%) and left to stand for 20 minutes.
After the expiration of the period, the seeds are planted in the ground, 3 beans in each hole to a depth of no more than 2 centimeters. The distance between the holes should be about 30 centimeters. Simultaneously with landing, it is also necessary to immediately install a support with a height of at least 3 meters. It is better to use wooden structures as a support, since the beans do not curl around plastic and iron.
Care
Although curly beans and unpretentious in care, yet it requires timely watering, weeding and fertilization. Besides young plant fears low temperatures therefore, if necessary, the young will need to be covered with a film. Optimum temperature, at which the plant will grow normally, +18 ⁰ C is considered. If this figure is lower, then warming is required.
Watering is very important for ornamental beans, especially during the dry season. Features of watering plants is that you need to water carefully from the watering can into the middle of the beds so that water does not fall on the inflorescences. Water is better to use warm, settled and without chlorine.
Timely feeding of the plant is also important and will only benefit. It is best to use beans as a top dressing organic compounds. Fresh manure cannot be used. Experienced gardeners often fertilize in advance the place where the beans will be planted. It is especially effective to mulch with hay, sawdust or straw. But you also need to remember that when using complex fertilizers, which contain superphosphate, you need to make sure that not a single drop of the substance gets on the leaves and flowers of the plant, since if it gets on the foliage, the plant can get burned, which in some cases will be difficult to fix somehow.
Ornamental bean - a wonderful plant for decoration suburban area. It is easy to take care of and bright flowers fragrant for a long time. The plant climbs on any supports, they can decorate the gazebo, the wall of the house, just hide any unsightly buildings. In many varieties, the fruits are even edible.
Description and characteristics of the plant
Most often on our sites you can find decorative beans with purple and bright red flowers. But the variety of its colors is much richer. It is believed that the purple color of the flowers is inherent in several varieties of beans, while fiery red is a separate variety. It is currently believed that this is not entirely true: the variety of new varieties covers all conceivable color variations. 
Beans are great for vertical gardening
Beans grow very quickly, many varieties reach a height of 5 m, and throughout this length the shoots try to grab onto something. This is a thermophilic culture, but it does not require special conditions, it grows well in any sunny area. In the shade it feels a little worse, but it also pleases the owner with very beautiful flowers. The fruits of many varieties are edible, however, few summer residents eat them, preferring to plant grain or asparagus varieties separately in a small garden.
Like any other bean, ornamental saturates the soil around it with nitrogen, absorbing it from the depths of the soil and from the air and converting it into digestible compounds that accumulate on root nodules. In this regard, at the end of the season, the plants are not pulled out: they are cut off at the soil surface, leaving the roots in place.
Potatoes planted nearby significantly increase their yield due to the property of beans to improve soil fertility. And the green mass of ornamental beans removed in autumn is sent to the compost pit, where it enriches the composition of the collected plant waste with a large amount of nutrients.
Solanaceae growing near beans are not affected by late blight. Does not like its aroma and the Colorado potato beetle.
Homeland of ornamental beans - Latin America, its original name translates as "sailing ship", which is due to the shape of the flower. Ripe fruits are large rough beans. It is they who are collected in order to next year re-plant or construct blooming wall on the new site.
Video: all about beans Turkish beans
Varieties of ornamental beans
Currently, more than others are known and are used in decorating varieties of plots:
- Mammoth - beans with white flowers of various shades and sizes. The most large-flowered variety.
Mammoth flowers are white, very large - Dolichos purple - beans with purple flowers. This variety is often called curly lilac. Dolichos is a rare example of a bean with a pleasant aroma, so its branches with large flowers are often added to bouquets. Inflorescences stand well in vases with water for up to 2 weeks.
Dolichos is so similar to lilac that some even doubt that it belongs to leguminous plants. - Two-color - under this name they unite a group of varieties that differ from others in a combination of two colors: some of the flowers are pure white, the other is painted in rich red.
Madama Butterfly - one of the representatives of varieties with a two-color color of flowers - Turkish beans - a popular variety, has orange-red, even fiery, scarlet flowers. One of the most commonly grown varieties for garden decoration. At timely landing plants bloom throughout the summer.
Turkish beans - the most famous variety ornamental beans - Climber - a variety with bright red (often even burgundy) flowers. AT last years it is he who displaces Turkish beans.
Rock climber - one of the most fashionable modern varieties
Some varieties of asparagus beans, such as Golden Nectar, are also often positioned as ornamentals. There is little confusion on this issue, due to the fact that many climbing varieties of vegetable beans can act both as a decoration of a vegetable garden and be a crop grown for consumption as a food product.
Planting ornamental beans
In most cases, beans are grown by sowing seeds directly into open ground. After all, there is not much point in wasting energy on seedlings, beauty can wait for warm days, and such beans are not specially grown for food. However, a seedling option also exists, it is resorted to in regions with a harsh climate and in cases where you want to create a beautiful wall in the country as early as possible. True, you will have to tinker with seedlings, remembering, among other things, that beans are extremely painful for any transplant.
Video: Dolichos bean bushes on the site
Landing dates
It is not possible to sow seeds in open ground very early, the soil should warm up before sowing: the seeds begin to germinate at a soil temperature of 8–10 ° C, and seedlings are very sensitive to frost and die at -1 ° C. The optimum temperature for its growth is considered to be 20– 25 o C. In the central region, planting dates are mid-May, in the north - the first days of June. In the south, all types of beans are sown in April. If the seeds are sown in cold soil, their germination is sharply reduced, and sometimes they die completely. An approximate guideline is the time when cucumbers are sown, which, like beans, are afraid of frost.
They begin to grow ornamental beans for seedlings at the very end of March or early April, in the northern regions - towards the end of April. If it turns out that the sowing was carried out too early and the seedlings have overgrown, you will have to arrange a support for it, to which long stems are tied. For this purpose, you can gently stick, for example, a pencil next to the sprout.
Planting for seedlings
Seedlings will have to stay at home for about a month, it will normally grow in soil of any composition, except for clay, but it is better to mix soddy soil and sand in a ratio of 2: 1 and add a handful of wood ash to a bucket of mixture.
It is necessary to sow seeds for seedlings in individual pots: the beans do not tolerate transplantation with damage to the roots. You can also use disposable ones with a removable bottom, but peat ones would be the best option - then planting in open ground will be completely painless. You can also use large peat tablets.
The best option for growing seedlings of beans - peat pots
Bean seeds are large, and before sowing they are easy to calibrate, throwing out the smallest and most affected by pests. Then it is recommended to soak the seeds in water until swelling (for 12–16 hours), without waiting for pecking.
Some gardeners pre-etch them in a solution of potassium permanganate and even soak them in growth stimulants. All this, of course, can be done, but it is not necessary to engage in optional operations in the case of growing an ornamental crop.
The seeds of ornamental beans can be different color, but they are always large, easy to handle Beans are sown to a depth of about 2 cm. Usually it sprouts well, so it’s enough to put one bean in a pot or tablet, but if there are a lot of them and there are doubts about germination, you can spread out 2-3 pieces, and then carefully remove the extra shoots.
The temperature at which seedlings should be grown is 18–22 ° C, but after the emergence of seedlings, it must be reduced by several degrees for 3–4 days. No special worries, except for periodic watering, growing seedlings does not require. Bushes do not have to be formed by pinching or cutting. Feeding is not required for this month.
If the soil was very thin and it turns out that the seedlings are growing slowly, you can water it with an infusion of wood ash.
It is possible to transplant seedlings into a bed no earlier than two true leaves develop. It should not be kept at home for too long either, but if the transplant is done along with a peat pot, then there is no risk. Only a week before planting, it is necessary to prepare the bushes, taking them out periodically to the balcony and accustoming them to fresh air. 
A common box for beans is not the best option: it will be very difficult to remove seedlings without damaging the roots
Planting seedlings in the garden
Ornamental beans are less demanding on conditions compared to vegetable varieties. But still, the bed should be prepared in advance by making the usual doses of fertilizers. It can be humus or compost, but not fresh manure. Any mineral compositions with an emphasis on phosphorus and potassium are also suitable: a lot of bean nitrogen is not required. This element causes excessive growth of the vegetative mass to the detriment of intensive flowering.
If there is clay on the site, sand must be added when digging, if the soil is too acidic - chalk.
The scheme for planting decorative beans is any, since its main purpose is to decorate the site. Therefore, the owner decides for himself whether it will be a bed or one row along a wall or a fence, but between plants it is necessary to leave a distance of at least 20 cm, and preferably 30–40 cm. If there are several rows, then 40 to 50 cm are left between them, in depending on how you manage to build the supports.
The technique of planting seedlings is the usual one: in selected places, they dig holes the size of a pot and bury seedlings in them almost without deepening, after which they pour abundantly with warm water and mulch the soil.
Sowing seeds in the ground
Sowing seeds directly into the garden is the most the usual way planting ornamental beans, most often they do so. In the case of light and warm soil, beans are sown on a flat surface.
If a The groundwater are close, build an elevated bed.
The sowing scheme is the same as when planting seedlings: distances from 20 to 40 cm are left between the holes. A denser planting gives a solid blank wall, but the plants develop worse, bloom not so gracefully. 2–3 beans are sown in each hole to a depth of 1.5–2 cm, then the bed is abundantly watered from a watering can with a strainer and the soil is mulched with any bulk material. If the threat of frost persists, crops are temporarily covered with spunbond. Excess seedlings are carefully cut off a few days after their appearance. 
Bean seeds are sown not very deep, you can 2-3 pieces per hole
Care
Caring for beans is simple and includes systematic loosening of row spacing, weeding, fertilizing and watering. Loosening is performed after each watering and rain, it is combined with the removal of weeds. With the growth of bushes, it will be more and more difficult to loosen, so it is advisable to mulch the bed. When the bushes grow to 12–15 cm, they are lightly spudded with earth.
Beans are a heat-loving plant, therefore, if they are planted too early, at first you need to monitor the weather and, possibly, cover the plantings with non-woven materials. Alternatively, you can build a small temporary greenhouse. Mature plants can withstand temperatures close to 0 o C.
How to water beans
All types of beans, including decorative ones, are watered infrequently and moderately, preventing the soil from drying out. This should be done under the root, in the evenings, with water settled and warmed up during the day by the sun. In case of dry weather, watering is required twice a week.
It is advisable to direct the water directly to the roots, especially taking care not to soak the flowers and buds. Therefore, a strainer is often removed from the watering can so that water gets between the rows or, with a single-row planting, closer to the base of the bushes.
Just before flowering begins, the soil can be slightly dried for several days: this causes more buds to appear, but then watering continues as usual. It is better to mulch the soil around the beans with any bulk material (peat, humus, sawdust, chopped straw) in order to better retain moisture.
The traditional 6 acres do not give the summer resident much space for experiments, but they are taught to use every meter of land wisely. And the cultivation of ornamental climbing plants is gaining more and more popularity among gardeners: it almost does not take up space in the garden, and it decorates the plot (or covers an unsightly fence), and brings a good harvest.
So, the topic of our article is care, planting and cultivation of curly beans.
Can you eat curly beans? Types of curly beans
Some novice summer residents ask if curly beans are edible. Of course it's edible! But the grains and pods of some varieties in their raw form contain toxins that quickly break down when cooked. Like ordinary bush, curly beans are of the following types:
-asparagus curly beans (sugar, green beans). Such beans are harvested in an unripe form, put in salads, soups, etc. But if you keep the asparagus curly beans on the plant until biological maturity, you can collect small bean grains from it.
Asparagus curly beans "Blauhilda"
- grain curly beans (shelling). This is a simple bean, as a result of which we obtain grains suitable for long-term storage. Curly beans boast larger grains compared to bush beans, and its color is original.
Beans curly grain varieties "Fiery red"
- semi-sugar curly beans. This is something between asparagus and grain beans. When ripe, it gives grains, but the pod itself is more tender than that of grain varieties, suitable for eating when young. In the future, the pod becomes hard, with a pronounced parchment layer.
Curly beans: growing features
Planting curly beans
Growing vine beans is no different from growing regular beans. It can only be noted a great thermophilicity and intolerance to frost, therefore, for growing curly beans, only south side where there are no cold winds.
soil for planting curly beans should be neutral and even slightly alkaline. Otherwise, it should be deoxidized since the fall, and at the same time fertilizer should be applied - manure, compost and superphosphate. And if earlier potatoes, cabbage or cucumbers grew in this place, in the future curly beans can not be fed at all, since the land after these crops is fully enriched with minerals for curly beans. By the way, after growing beans, the earth becomes extremely rich in nitrogen - this is the work of nodule nitrogen-fixing bacteria living in its root system. Like all legumes, beans are a very useful precursor that gives the earth a rest.
Planting curly beans directly into the ground is carried out only when the threat of night frosts is gone (late spring - early summer). There are early-ripening varieties, from which the harvest can be harvested as early as two months after planting, and there are also late varieties that ripen for more than 100 days. It is better to plant the latter through seedlings in order to have time to fully enjoy the harvest, especially when it comes to middle lane, and not about the southern regions.
Planting curly beans through seedlings
They begin to cook it in early May, so that by the time of planting there are two true leaves on the beans. The grains are soaked in water for a day and put in a warm place, after which they are immersed in pots or cups with soil for seedlings so that the sharp end of the beans is in the ground, and the other slightly “peeps out” of the soil. It is recommended to grow seedlings of curly beans at a temperature of 16-18 0 C. Thanks to this, the plants will be stocky, with a good root system. In a month, the seedlings will be ready for planting. For planting, they are prepared in holes (ashes, humus, compost can be put in the holes, if no fertilizer has been applied since autumn), plants are planted in increments of about 10-20 cm, to a depth of no more than 5 cm, near the supports.
Planting Curly Beans Through Seeds
pre-soaked in warm water for a day, beans are planted in holes or rows to the depth of the finger phalanx, that is, about 5 cm (the lighter the soil, the deeper). You can plant 1 piece, you can - several, depending on the support. Ashes, humus or compost are placed in the wells.
In the event of a severe cold snap, crops or plantings of curly beans are covered with lutrasil, film, etc.
Support for curly beans
curly beans grows from one and a half to three meters in length, so you need to take care of the support in advance. The support should not only be high - about 2.5 meters, but also strong, as the beans build up a lot of heavy green mass.
What can be taken as a support for curly beans?
- wooden gazebos, fences, stairs, fences and other existing structures;
- Rabitz. Not the most a good option: the beans will braid the mesh cells so tightly that it will be difficult to get rid of even dry lashes. In addition, a plant with its weight can simply fill up an unreliably fixed chain-link;
- lower branches of trees. Beans are a good neighbor, as they are able to accumulate nitrogen and improve the soil. Among the minuses - the tree creates a shadow that is undesirable for the beans; beans climb quite high and tenaciously up the branches, and harvesting and later getting rid of dry residues can be problematic.
- wooden structure like "grape" or "cucumber". And since the cucumber is an excellent precursor for our beans, you can use the trellis on which you grew cucumbers last year as a support.
-poles dug into the ground to a depth of at least half a meter, and rising above the ground at least two meters. Poles can be placed in the form of a hut; the letters "T" or "P" with threads connecting horizontal poles and the ground; in the form of the letter "V", etc.
When the curly beans grow by about 15 cm, they spud them, and as they grow, they help to “grab” the support: they twist it counterclockwise along a pole or trellis.
Curly bean care
Like others garden plants, curly beans need regular watering, weeding and loosening, pinching and mulching.
What to feed curly beans? Beans do not need large doses of nitrogen, so clean nitrogen fertilizers she shouldn't be fed. For the first feeding, a month after germination, curly beans are recommended to be fed with complete fertilizer. If the plant has a nitrogen deficiency (thin pale sprouts, chlorous leaves), which happens during drought, watering can be combined with the application of mullein, diluted bird droppings, infusion of herbs, etc. A month later, another top dressing of curly beans- already for the formation of fruits. The easiest way is to feed the culture with ash (a glass under a bush) or other fertilizers containing the necessary potassium, magnesium and phosphorus.
How to water curly beans? Before the start of tying the pods, the beans do not need abundant watering. On an anhydrous diet, the plant will grow unpretentious, with a powerful root system that is not susceptible to disease. However, after flowering, everything changes dramatically: in the absence of rain, the beans are well watered, and the ground around is mulched. Without water good harvest don't get
When should you pinch beans? Pinching a curly bean is done if you no longer want the plant to grow in length. Also, the growing point can be pinched to direct the forces of the plant to ripen the beans / blades, or grow a low culture - for example, 1-meter or 1.5-meter.
How to harvest curly bean pods? Like ordinary beans - as they ripen. The more often you do this, the more beans your bush will bring. Usually curly beans in August-September look like this: the top blooms, in the middle - unripe pods, below - mature ones. The collection of curly beans stretches for about a month, until frost. 3-5 kg of beans are harvested from 1 "square" of the fruitful beds.
In this way, growing curly beans allows you to not only decorate your garden, but also get a good harvest. And what soups, what potatoes can be cooked with beans! Moreover, many varieties of curly beans are distinguished by larger and more tender beans than bush forms. But choosing a bean variety is another story.
Decorative beans photo
Or fiery red (Phaseolus cjccineus L.) - annual herbaceous plant legume family, climbing liana. Summer residents like to plant balconies, verandas, pergolas with this popular plant.
Beans grow quickly and can rise to a height of up to 4 meters in a season. Her stems are curly, thin, but strong, on which complex three-lobed leaves with large pointed leaves are located on long petioles.
Among the numerous leaves in axillary racemes on long peduncles, red flowers appear already in June. Even here, this plant blooms profusely until frost. From the inflorescences, fruits are formed - large beans, because decorative beans are often also called Turkish beans. Bean seeds are large - up to 1.5 grams, which retain their germination capacity up to 5 years.
Haricot is a warm and sun-loving plant, it does not tolerate frost at all. Prefers cultivated soils, moderately moist. He likes watering, adding lime to the soil, (especially at the time of germination). Can tolerate some partial shade.
Beans propagate easily, usually by sowing seeds immediately to a permanent place in the ground at the end of May. Before planting, the seeds are soaked for a day in water. room temperature with the addition of biostimulants ("Buton", "Epin") or placed in a damp cloth for two days. Swollen seeds, preferably with a hatched sprout, are planted in moist fertile soil to a depth of 1 cm and at a distance of 15-20 cm. Shoots appear, as a rule, in two weeks. It is possible to grow beans through seedlings, but you need to know that she does not like transplanting. Planting on seedlings should not be too early either - it is enough to plant one seed at the end of April in peat-humus pots. Shoots appear in 5-7 days. Plant out outdoors when danger of frost has passed.
Bean care consists of regular watering, weeding, fertilizing with organic or complex mineral fertilizers. If the bean stalk quickly reaches the desired height, you can pinch the top of it - then the plant will branch more strongly and bloom more profusely.
Decorative beans can have white and white-pink flowers. Moreover, the seeds of white-flowered beans are white, those of white-pink beans are white-pink with brown specks, and those of red-flowered beans are pink-lilac with black specks.
Ornamental beans are used for vertical gardening garden houses, gazebos, balconies, fences. She quickly braids their rigid racks or stretched soft ropes, creating a beautiful green screen with red or white-pink flowers. Densely planted near any support (possibly a pyramid on the lawn), curly beans cover it with a beautiful dense green carpet.
Of the pests for beans, whitefly, aphids and sprout flies are dangerous, of diseases - anthracnose, etc. But usually beans are rarely affected by them
Ornamental beans belong to the legume family. The name comes from the Latin - phaseolus, which means "sailing ship". Appearance The flower really looks like a boat under sail. As cultivated plant ornamental beans have been known since the fifteenth century.fire beans - annual climbing plant. It comes from South America, therefore it belongs to heat-loving cultures. The stems of the creeper grow up to three to four meters in length. plant flowers small size, bright red, pink or white.
Landing and care
On the roots of ornamental beans there are nodule nitrogen-fixing bacteria that enrich the soil with nitrogen. Unlike vegetable beans, ornamental beans are less demanding on growing conditions. Soils for creepers need to choose rich and loose. Beans - moisture-loving plant, so it is required regular watering. From organic fertilizers do not use fresh manure, only rotted. In the absence of organic matter, mineral complex fertilizers can be used.Ornamental beans propagate by seeds that differ large size and pinkish color. The distance between the holes should be at least 40 cm. 2-3 seeds are sown in each hole at the end of May.
AT northern regions where possible return frosts, ornamental beans are best grown seedling way. The plant does not tolerate transplanting well, so the seeds must be sown in pots with a removable bottom. In this case, when transplanting to a permanent place, the roots of the vine will not suffer. It's even better to use peat pots. Sowing is carried out from early April to mid-May. In open ground, plants are planted in June, when the threat of frost has passed.
After planting in the ground, the plant quickly braids the provided support. Due to this property of decorative beans, it is good to plant it along the gazebo, fences, awnings and other compositions.
Decorative beans have an important advantage - the ability to grow in partial shade. In such a vine not only grows, but also blooms and yields. Beans are considered inedible.
Ornamental beans get along well with most plants. If potatoes are planted next to the beans and they will be less affected by late blight and the Colorado potato beetle.
