Sprouting & Planting Grocery Store Dry Bulk Soup Beans

I have tried sprouting bulk soup beans purchased from the grocery store and planting them in the garden to see if they would produce fruit. Here are my results. Read the full article here: http://www.thedoityourselfworld.com/articles/article.php?id=11313

I bought some Goya brand beans from the grocery store with the intent to plant them in the garden and see if they will grow. At one dollar per pound these beans are cheaper by far than the little handful you get sold as seed beans for about triple that price.

I put some various beans on a paper towel on a tray. I wet down the paper towel and then put another two paper towels on top and wet them down.

I left them in a dark and cool area for three days. The red beans and kidney beans had a near 100 percent germination rate. The chickpeas started to sprout a bit. The lima beans just molded. The barley molded as well.

So I gave them all another day to sprout and checked them on the fourth day. They were looking very good. So I planted them in the garden.

Just over two weeks later the beans are all growing very nicely. Even the chickpeas came up happily. The only problem is that some worm ate most of the red beans as they opened up their new leaves. These all died off. The same worm got to the kidney beans but did not do as much harm.

In the future I will plan them indoors until they are tough enough to survive the wilds outside.

But overall the experiment was a success. You can plant bulk dry soup beans from the grocery store and grow your own food.

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