planting black beans from seed Puerto Rican Black Beans – Heirloom Vining Shelling Bean – Jerra's Garden

planting black beans from seed Puerto Rican Black Beans – Heirloom Vining Shelling Bean – Jerra's GardenPuerto Rican Black Bean Seeds Pole or Vining Bean Heirloom Vegetable Seeds Vigna unguiculata Listing is for 1 packet of 15 seeds Watch my YouTube video tutorial on how to grow Puerto Rican Black Beans from seed to harvest: https: youtu. be RezpeqXp0q0 Puerto Rican black beans are part of the cowpea family. Vines are extremely vigorous, often reaching over 20FT in one growing season. Plus, it has a very high disease and pest resistance. After two years

Puerto Rican Black Bean Seeds - Pole or Vining Bean Heirloom Vegetable Seeds
Vigna unguiculata
Listing is for 1 packet of 15 seeds

Watch my YouTube video tutorial on how to grow Puerto Rican Black Beans from seed to harvest: https://youtu.be/RezpeqXp0q0

Puerto Rican black beans are part of the cowpea family. Vines are extremely vigorous, often reaching over 20FT in one growing season. Plus, it has a very high disease and pest resistance. After two years of growing this black bean, I have had no issues with pests or disease. In fact, the second year crop reseeded on its own. I did not water them or anything and it still produced loads of very long cowpea style pods that have numerous black beans inside. I just love it when edible things reseed in my garden and require zero effort! Puerto Rican black beans is a perennial plant in areas that barely get any cold. Otherwise, treat it as a long lived annual crop that will die once the cold arrives, but not before providing several flushes of harvestable beans. This vegetable is really meant to be grown as a drying or shelling bean. This is by far the best shelling for the purpose of drying black bean cultivar I have ever grown. It is a must for those looking to add edible plants to their permaculture or food forest type setups. It is important to note that Puerto Rican black beans are day light sensitive, meaning they are triggered to start flowering and producing beans once the day light hours start to shorten in fall. So it it best to direct sow seeds in early summer so they are nice big plants by fall time. Also, I cannot stress how big these vines get. The last picture shows how the vines climbed up one of my orange trees and totally took over. Give it a nice large trellis and it will reward you with a ton of black beans. 

PLANTING
Germination: 4-10 days

Germination Temperature: Optimum soil temperatures are 70-85ºF

Seed Sowing Depth: 1” deep 

Sowing: Direct sowing is preferred in early summer.

Harvest: Wait until the pods have dried out and turned brown before harvesting. Shell out the black beans and out them in a dry, dark, cool spot for long term storage.