songbird wrote:

this past spring there was a question
if edamame soybeans were as productive as
regular soybeans.
....
i'll be interested to see how they finish
up.

still drying the latest round of edamame
soybeans for seed, but the greenies are done
for the season. a hard frost two nights ago
finished off the plants.

from a 2oz package of seeds (about 70 seeds
i think it was) we had one batch of greenies
several weeks ago and then yesterday i picked
what were left of them all. the green ones i
sorted out and then weighed them at 3lbs,
boiled them and then shelled them out for 21oz
of edible results.

the dry ones will be a while yet before i
shell those and weigh them out, but i do have
7oz already shelled and dried from a few weeks
ago.

the boiled green shells are already making
some worms very happy. it's not often they
get cooked greens.

the plants i pulled up to inspect the roots
for nitrogen forming nodules were all loaded
so as i suspected we have a good population of
those bacteria in the soil here. some roots
went down a good 18 inches for the larger plants
in sandy soil. the smaller plants in clay barely
made it down 4 inches. funny to see a tiny plant
of 12 inches loaded with enough pods that you
can't see the stem.

the habit of the plants in growth was about
the same as any of the previous soybean crops
i've grown with one difference. the pods on
these can get heavy enough to collapse and
break branches from the plant.


songbird