Pulled down all my Hyacinth Bean vines today and plucked the seed pods off.
When they are all good and dried out I will shell them and save the seeds for next year. I think I'll have enough to cover our whole block in vines!
What is a Hyacinth Bean vine you ask? It's a hearty annual climbing plant that produces lovely purple & white flowers and large shiny royal-purple pods that turn magenta-hued with time.
It's a very strong vine but needs support to climb; it can't climb up a wall on its own like an ivy would. We grow them up around the columns of our front porch, adding twine as necessary to support them, until they reach the top where we string more twine and let them grow horizontally 'til they meet in the middle.
I love our purple pea vines.
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4 comments:
That's a really pretty plant! Awesome that you are going to grow more from seed. Jackie
that top picture is of seeds? Look suspiciously like clay to me. :D
Thanks, Jackie. Our vines this year came from seeds from our '07 vines which came from our '06 vines which came from a handful of pods someone gave us! We've given seeds to half a dozen people and all report back they grew nicely. So those few pods from '06 have really multiplied and spread!
>>that top picture is of seeds? Look suspiciously like clay to me. :D
Hee ... Could be a new use for the remaining purple-brain scraps.
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