kathyd
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Post by kathyd on Dec 11, 2011 12:26:23 GMT -5
A two part question: I have heard that beans packaged for sale in supermarkets are treated in some way to keep them from sprouting. Don't know if it is true so that is also part of my question as I can't seem to find the answer by browsing the Internet. 1. Has anyone grown beans in their garden from packages of beans purchased in a supermarket? 2. I also grow sprouts to eat. I have heard that most bean sprouts need to be cooked in order for their nutrients to be absorbed. Has anyone sprouted beans from store-bought packages? The sprouting seeds on the Internet are SO expensive and also have shipping charges. What about microgreens too...will they work for microgreens. Apologies if this has been discussed in the past...I'm new to these boards. Thanks for any help. ;D
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Post by pepperhead212 on Dec 11, 2011 13:25:58 GMT -5
I have sprouted many types of beans - the latest, some I got in an Indian grocery - and I have had no trouble with them. I buy organic mung beans from a health food store, and it seems they have a higher % of germination, but non-organic ones still germinate well, and I have even used fairly old ones, with no problems. I'm not sure why they would treat them to prevent sprouting. Seems that they got wet enough to sprout, sprouting would be the least of their worries!
I have never grown beans from the dried beans I bought in the supermarket, but then, almost all of those are bush beans, and I grow pole beans. Also, I don't bother drying beans I grow - much cheaper to buy dried ones, and use the fresh ones from the garden.
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Post by coppice on Dec 11, 2011 13:52:28 GMT -5
KathyD, I don't think we've got a Bean-Queen, here yet.
Yes sometimes dried stupormarket beans will grow and sprout. My personal favorites are all pole beans, so my one long ago soup bean trial was bush beans and a disapointment to me.
Help us out here and think about putting on the harness of bean queen, and maybe amending your profile to list a general growing area.
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Post by stratcat on Dec 11, 2011 15:22:19 GMT -5
Apologies if this has been discussed in the past...I'm new to these boards. Thanks for any help. ;D Don't worry about asking questions, kathyd. The red pen isn't going to come down on you.
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kathyd
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Post by kathyd on Dec 13, 2011 11:39:31 GMT -5
Thanks for the responses. I'm trying to find more ways to use fresh greens of all kinds, and want to use bean sprouts a bit more.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 14, 2011 7:46:41 GMT -5
last bit of garden time before fall when its too late and cold for anything else, i can cover all the bald spaces with beans and the sprouts will get out and leafy before i put them into the salad bowl, no cooking required. for growing to maturity in my kitchen garden i use a black bush bean from lebanon that was a grocery store bean, and i have two middle eastern favas that are not varieties i have ever seen in a seed catalog. my endangered pole beans are grown with the corn and too close to extinction to eat the seed, so the grocery store varieties work really well for me. this said, i have also grown from the plastic sacks of american dry beans, and those do not grow very well, or they havent for me. i tried american 99 cent sacks of pintos and black beans and great northern and they were all weakly plants with few pods.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 14, 2011 21:39:57 GMT -5
I planted some Anasazi beans I purchased at a grocery store. I got three different beans from that planting: Anasazi, kidney, and what appeared to be a cross between Anasazi and kidney. They say beans don't readily cross pollinate, however some of those Anasazis had been cross pollinated. I was quite surprised to get red kidney beans from an Anasazi seed.
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Post by daylilydude on Mar 4, 2012 2:49:13 GMT -5
Oooo... looks like a bagged bean experiment is needed, we ALWAYS have bags of dry grocery store beans here so maybe if I have time this year I might try growing the lima bean, as that is the main one we use here!
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desertrat
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Post by desertrat on Mar 4, 2012 7:31:17 GMT -5
I've grown blackeyed peas from grocery bags and they were great. Turned out to be pole type though and had to trellis them but we ate them fresh snapped and they were very good that way. Not technically a bean I guess but I lump them together with true beans.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 4, 2012 18:39:25 GMT -5
my i have planted several packages of pinto beans in the bags for 99 cents and they grow like crazy. I prefer bush blue lake now but any dry bean I think will grow.
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Post by txdirtdog on Mar 4, 2012 19:15:13 GMT -5
I hope so. I have a bag of black-eyed peas earmarked for after the maters mostly play out this summer. I plan to pull the mater plants, plant the area in black eyed peas, get a crop of that and then turn the plants under for the nitrogen. We'll see how that goes.
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