And large and small. This bean is called oily, because the grains have a creamy taste, which does not add calories at all. So it can be used even in diet for weight loss as a substitute for meat. Lima is extremely tasty, especially in the stage of young grain. In the fresh form, its proteins are easily absorbed and have an alkaline reaction - in fact, these are natural pills from heartburn! If you did not try to Lima, it is not difficult to buy it in the finished form in the supermarket. Fresh beans are sold and dry grain.
There are curly and sharpening forms with a length of 2-15 m, as well as bush - 25-60 cm height, ripening before. Limsk bean has two varieties - large (potato type) and small. The first is a large plant with powerful curved beans, reaching a length of 15 cm and tightly filled with fleshy grains in thin skin. It should be easily calculated, otherwise, when peaped value of grain decreases, the taste is worse. The bean-potatoes are almost round, diameter 1-3 cm.
The second variety of Lima is small and raised, which is important for our sites, because the beans are required a lot of heat, and we sometimes so hot, but still short. The beans are early sleep and reveal, there are a lot of small multicolored seeds in them - white, black, red, orange and even striped.
Buckles flies and mosquitoes. An experienced gardener who can handle the plants of familiar beans, Limskaya does not cause special hassle. In the middle lane, you can grow early varieties - brush fine-grained, Armenian, sugar.
Lima - annual developing 80-100 days. Beans prefers neutral soils, but can grow on weakly acid. Perfectly feels in bed after potatoes, tomatoes, pumpkins, zucchini, cucumbers.
Loose soil from autumn should be fed by compost, phosphoric and potash fertilizers. By the beginning of the season, stocking of wood ashes and siters who will have time to grow, and then, being surpassed, to turn to the seeding of Lima. Sit dry grains when it is already very warm, in well-wetted rows in the pits with a depth of 4-5 cm. White-shaped - at a distance of 15-20 cm with aisle 40-60 cm, curly -n 10-20 cm less often. Then they pour out again and covered with the nonwoven cannol.
Gentle plants of the Limsk bean die during freezersAnd in the cold summer they give less fruit. Stagnation of water is also destroyed. But at a stable temperature of 20-25 ° C, the maximum harvest is obtained. Soil for her must constantly be wet. In a dry hot summer without regular irrigation, buds fall. To increase the amount of beans, at the beginning of the flowering of Lima feed the hood of wood ash. In a three-liter bank, the sifted assets from leafy trees and shrubs are poured with boiling water, covered with a lid and withstand a day. Then filtered, diluted with water in a ratio of 1:10.
After 10 days, a solution of green fertilizer makes a solution of green fertilizer to sliced \u200b\u200balong the landings.
Pests in Limsk bean practically no. Moreover, the aroma of her leaves scares insects even from neighboring plants. On the Pacific Coast of the United States, where they grow the main harvest of Lima beans, it is considered a natural repellent. Therefore, the curly varieties of Lima better place in arbors or windows of garden houses - it saves from Moshkara, mosquitoes and flies.
Article author: Svetlana Kazakov.
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