Remember the post I made regarding Yin Yang Beans before? Many people were wondering what the plant would be like since the seeds they saw looks so peculiar.
Yin Yang Bean seeds
In January, I passed some seeds to one of my very accomplished and experinced community gardeners, Dan Mei, to grow in my community garden. In about two months, the plants attained maturity and started producing flowers.
Yin Yang Bean plants are short in stature and do not climb, which are typical growth characteristics of bush beans. A large number of plants grown in a single plot will look quite nice. The garden bed will look ‘filled’ with the lustrious foliage of these bush beans. They are barely 30 cm tall when they started flowering which occurred around 2 months. The leaves occur in threes on a single stalk and are rough to feel.
The bean pods that Yin Yang Beans produced are somewhat shorter in length, broader and flatter than the usual French or snap beans we see being sold in supermarkets. They can be harvested in the immature stage for use as our regular French beans.
The flowers of the Yin Yang beans are white in colour as shown in the pictures below.
The small, white, dainty flowers of the Yin Yang Bean.
Flower with developing bean pods.
