Sowing Tips: VE-060 Dwarf Yard Long Bean

Seed Sowing Guide:

Seedling:

Prepare Baba seedling soil and seedling pots. Fill up the seedling pots with seedling soil, use finger gently make a small hole, put in 2-3 seeds and cover with a thin layer of soil.

During seedling stage, put under shaded area and make sure water thoroughly daily. When there is sprout, then move it to area with direct sunlight.

♥♥ Extra Tip: Before put in seed into soil or before transplant, you could water the seedling mix or potting mix first. This is to ensure the potting mix get enough moist and prevent plants get dehydrated later.

Transplant:

When the seedling with 3-4 leaves (around 10-14 days after germination), the seedling is ready to transplant.

• Ready a suitable size pot, the mini depth of the planting container is 300mm. Such as Baba RD-392, MJ-400, 537 Volcano Box or 507-L Planter. The bigger space you provide to the seedling, the more harvest you could get.
• Fill up the planting pot with Baba Organic Vegimix, and make holes to prepare for transplant. Each holes require minimum 300mm distance.
• Take out the seedling from seedling pots, and put into the hole. Press gently on surrounding soil, to make the seedling stay firm.
• If you manage to germinate more than 1 seedling, you may put two seedling in one pot. After 14 days, keep the strong plant and remove the weak plant from the pot.

Fertilizing:

Put Mr. Ganick 532 Organic Leafy Fertilizer on 7^th days after transplant. After that, repeat fertilizing on every week, for a month.

One month later, or when the plant start flowering, change the fertilizer to Mr. Ganick 426 Organic Melon Fertilizer, repeat weekly too.

Dig a small hole beside plants, and put in fertilizer, then cover the fertilizer with a thin layer of soil.

Water after done fertilizing.

Watering:

Moist is important for Dwarf Yard Long Bean. Make sure soil always enough moist and water it when needed.

Water thoroughly on every morning is recommended.

Trimming:

• Trim off the yellowish or unhealthy leaves or branches.
• When the plant grow too bushy, trim off the branches which grow over the plant support or planting net.
• Maintain good air ventilation for the plants, trim off some small branches if the plant over grow.
• For planting in round pot, keep 2-3 Dwarf Yard Long Bean on each branch only.
• For planting in large planter, keep 3-5 Dwarf Yard Long Bean per branch.

Harvest Tips:

When the Dwarf Yard Long Bean is healthy, you could enjoy more harvest and prolong the harvest period. A healthy plant can continue harvest for few months.

On time watering, fertilizing, trimming and full sunlight is very important.