[Homestead] Soy

clanSkeen sgian at planetc.com
Sun Nov 28 13:57:31 EST 2004





> James, do you grow your own beans?
>

Soybeans, you mean?

Yes.  Enough for edamame and a few other purposes, but not nearly enough for 
all the tofu & tempeh for a household.  Now that I've some more skill in 
growing them in a non-agribusiness way, I think I could and have given it a 
lot of thought.

The plant, given it's 'druthers,  grows more like a shrub than  a vine and 
although you only get two beans per pod, the yield is astounding.

Every commercial soybean I've planted in my organic mulched beds has punied. 
I got some OP (one hopes) seed from Nichols a few years ago and they did 
much, much better.  I've gotten two other strains since then  and they've 
done even better.

Black ones did better than yellow ones.

We have a surplus of every type of garden bean every year and so any beans 
we want to add to animal feed end up being those.  We do buy some to ensure 
a household supply for tofu.

James 





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