Purple Hyacinth – Picking
Q: When should we pick the pods of our purple hyacinth bean vine? How do we save the beans for planting next year?
A: I love the lavender flowers and eggplant-purple pods of hyacinth bean, Dolichos lablab. Each year, let the beans dry on the vine. Pick them after the first frost and shell the beans out of the crisp brown pods. Dry them for a few days on a cloth on top of your refrigerator, then put them in an envelope to keep until planting time next May.
-
Advertisement
-
Follow Walter
-
Advertisement
-
-
July calendar
Flowers are starting to fade, so remove faded flowers and the stems that hold them. Summer...
Get The Checklist
-
-
-
name that plant
Post your puzzlers and help others with theirs.
Start Here
-
-
Trending Posts
-
1
Passion Vine (Maypop) – Recipes
-
2
World Pajama Gardening Day
-
3
English Ivy – Management and Control
-
4
Water Flow Impediment – Law
-
5
Mondo Grass – Cutting and Fertilizing
-
1
Treehoppers under sunflower leaves, gardener bitten by carpenter ant
-
2
Blood lily Seeds and Propagation
-
3
Box Plant Recommendations: Dimensions and Flowers
-
4
I’m retiring from radio (mostly)
-
5
Lawn Care Calendar (Calendars) and Factsheets
-
-
Walter’s Bookshelf
Browse and purchase gardening books by Walter Reeves, plus select titles by other authors.
View books -
Popular topics
Soil Spring Summer Seed Winter Fall Flowers Weed Fertilizer Disease Shade Temperature Pots Oak Pine Pruning Mulch Watering Container Maple Compost Birds Herbicide Tomatoes Azalea Moisture Poison Pears Hydrangea Glyphosate Cherry Caterpillar Roundup Pests Irrigation Pre-Emergent Pesticide Stone Dogwood Peach Spider Pine Straw Magnolia Greenhouse Squash Squirrels Beans Travel Lemon Japanese Maple