“Oil King” beans: variety and agrotechnical characteristics

Everyone who cares about their health knows about such a valuable food product as beans. She is known since ancient times. To date, presented many varieties.One of the most useful is the oil king asparagus bean. It is valued for a rich set of vitamins and trace elements necessary for the human body. From such a vegetable, you can cook healthy, light diet meals, and admiring reviews of summer residents with photos simply scream about its high yield.

First of all, this variety has become popular because of its excellent taste. Also, gardeners say good external data of the vegetable. Pods are tender, juicy, pleasant to the touch. It is impossible not to note the early ripening of beans. If you sow it in late May - early June, then in the middle of summer you can see a decent amount of harvest in the beds. The period of fruiting in this variety is approximately 50 days. In favorable conditions, you can easily get about 2 kilograms of beans from 1 square meter.

Vegetable type is defined as a bush, upright. Plants are compact, reach a height of 0.5 meters. Pods are yellow, sometimes golden in color. In length, they reach 25 cm, in diameter - 3 cm. The total weight is about 5.5 grams.

This vegetable lacks fiber and coarse parchment layer. The fruits are sugar, pleasant to taste. Variety can be defined as a delicacy, it is perfect for different methods of freezing and preservation. Because of its delicate structure, the “Oil King” during cooking can do without heat treatment.

In addition to taste, gardeners emit other qualities of the form:

• unpretentiousness in cultivation;
• resistance to prolonged lack of moisture;
• resistance to diseases typical of this culture;
• excellent bush development;
• harmonious ripening of fruits;
• good survival on loamy lands.

Surprisingly, there are also negatives in the variety:

• low germination rate (sometimes half of the planting material does not produce fruit);
• small pod size;
• regrading (substandard seeds).

To obtain an annual large and high-quality harvest is not enough to buy good seeds. Compliance with the rules of cultivation and care is also equally important. The variety "Oil King", despite its high name, does not cause any special problems and concerns in cultivation. But still worth knowing some of the nuances.

• The plant is thermophilic. It is recommended to plant it on warm lands warmed to at least 15 degrees (not earlier than the end of May).
• In the open ground can be placed and seeds, and seedlings. You can refuse germination.
• Plant should be about 30 pieces per 1 square meter.
• Seeds are placed in the ground at a depth of 4 cm.
• The optimum temperature for ripening legumes is 20 degrees Celsius.
• As the soil is better to choose sandy, rich in lime.
• This type of beans does not like stagnant water in the soil.
• Favorable fertilizers for the culture will be mineral-based fertilizing and already decomposed organic material.
• The soil for planting asparagus beans should be fertilized in the fall.
• Do not forget to loosen, water and remove the weeds.
• The best precursors for asparagus beans can be potatoes, tomato, eggplant, cucumber, cabbage, beets, carrots and celery.

To prepare the seedlings, first soak the seeds in warm water, then plant them in a small box. The temperature in the room should not fall below 12 degrees. About a month later, you can safely plant seedlings in open ground.

To curly beans easily cultivated, it needs support. For this purpose, a nesting method of planting is used: they make a round bed with a diameter of about 1 meter, 10 beans are planted there, after which they build a certain structure in the form of a hut made of pegs.

Do not forget that the beans love the heat, so in the cool nights you should cover the beds with foil. This technique will protect the plants from death. When resorting to mineral supplements, remember that their too frequent use will not be beneficial. Two times over the summer will be quite enough.

After the first shoots should loosen the soil more often than usual. As for watering, once a week is enough until the plants reach the flowering phase. When the fruiting process is over, it will only be necessary to maintain an optimal percentage of moisture in the soil. Early ripening asparagus beans often give fruit within a month and a half after being planted.

The use of legumes is varied. Beans are especially popular in cuisines of Asian, Mexican and European peoples. The high protein content in the beans makes it a dietary, but very useful product for the human body. Consumption of beans has a positive effect on the state of the gastrointestinal tract. No vegetarian menu is complete without adding dishes. Frequent use of beans can fill all missing valuable elements.

You will learn more about growing beans in the following video.