Any advice for growing soybeans in my family sized backyard garden (2500 sq ft) in the western UP? I want to use them as fresh beans like edamame and in all the various stages of trheir productivity.
I planted them with inoculant in a well-irrigated sunny bed.
What should I watch for and what precautions do I need to know about?
They are not in a bed with any other plants; the nearest plants are bush green beans.
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Hi fiorenza, I grew soybeans last year. I just picked some seeds from a farm field the year before, popped them in the ground and they grew. I didn't do much to them. They had beautiful purple, I think, flowers. Unfortunatly, I left them too late and they dried on the plant. I bought a package of edamame beans this year. I have not yet planted them but I will be more watchful and hopefully I'll be able to eat them.
I realize that I have not given you the advice you are looking for, but I just wanted to let you know that I'm with you on this one.
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Thanks for the support. I'm a little worried about my beans. I planted 80 soybeans an about the same number of blue lake green bush beans and about 50 black turtle beans and so far nothing has sprouted and it's almost 3 weeks.
Any advice?
Nothing?! Nothing at all?!
Did you dig one or two up to see if they germinated? I mean, out of 210 seeds, you would at least have some come up. At the very least, they would sprout and then die.
Maybe you should post the details of this on the vegetable garden forum. There are a lot of really experienced people on that forum.