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  • From: Janet Bachmann <janetb AT ncat.org>
  • To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Edible lily flowers
  • Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2003 13:47:55 -0500

I've grown yard long or asparagus beans, which are probably the same as asparagus peans.  Same genus and species as Southern peas!  They aren't quite a yard long, more like 20 inches, and grow on vines, so need to be trellised.  I use the same cattle panel trellises that I use for tomatoes.  The first day I took them to the farmers' market, I brought a lot home.  The next week the daily paper food column did a special on them, and I sold out.  The Asians who shop at our market also learned I had them, and I sold out every day.  They need warm weather and protection from deer and rabbits.  Stink bugs and aphids were occasional insect pest problems.  They need to be picked while quite thin, before the bean inside the pod gets very big.  Asian customers would tell me if they were too big or too small, and they didn't all have the same opinion!
Preparation for stir fried asparagus beans:  Parboil for about 3 minutes.  Drain, cut in shorter pieces, and stir fry.  
  
has inspired me to want to try growing 
asparagus peas and sesame next year! Anyone 
tried either of those?

Pam Dawling, Twin Oaks Community, Louisa, 
Va (zone 6b)

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