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Vegetable Growing in Jacksonville FL – April’s New Chapter

by Duval MGV

April 8, 2022

It’s mid-April and in one of our raised vegetable beds, the first leaves of yard long beans (Vigna sesquipedalis, also known as snake beans, asparagus beans, or Chinese long beans), are just unfolding. When vegetable growing in Jacksonville ... READ MORE

Category: Florida-Friendly Landscaping, Fruits & Vegetables, Home Landscapes
Tags: Beans, Chinese Long Beans, Cutworms, Okra, Organic Diatomaceous Earth, Vegetable Growing In Jacksonville Fl

Grocery Shopping for Your Health: Beans and other legumes

by Maria Portelos-Rometo

October 29, 2021

In our last post in the "Grocery Shopping for Your Health" series, we strolled into the canned foods aisle. We'll stay there for this post, as we focus on beans and other legumes. Legumes, such as dried beans, peas and lentils, are packed ... READ MORE

Category: Food Safety, Health & Nutrition, Money Matters, Work & Life
Tags: Beans, Food, Groceries, Grocery, GroceryShoppingForYourHealth, Health, Legume, Money, Nut, Nutrition, Pgm_FCS, Saving, Shop

Fiber: It Moves Me!

by anikolai

October 27, 2021

Fiber: It Moves me! Have you ever wondered how much fiber you need in your diet? Well, you’re in the right place at the right time! Fiber is very important to include in your diet daily to maintain your digestive health. Just like a car ... READ MORE

Category: Health & Nutrition, Work & Life
Tags: Anikolai, Beans, Cholesterol, Fiber, Healthy, Healthy Living, Nutrition, Oatmeal

Asian Bean Thrips – another New Pest Species in Miami-Dade Agriculture

by Qingren Wang, Ph.D.

September 24, 2021

A new species of thrips was first reported on beans in Miami-Dade County in 2020. The size of this insect is very tiny, only about one millimeter long. They mainly stay within vegetable crop flowers, and damage the flowers. This new thrips species, ... READ MORE

Category: Agribusiness, Agriculture, Crops, Farm Management, Horticulture, Pests & Disease, Pests & Disease
Tags: Beans

Alternative Recipes: Black Bean Brownies

by anikolai

August 25, 2021

You heard that right! Black bean brownies are an alternative to regular brownies. This alternative offers a tasty and easy variation that provides extra nutrients and the same gooey, delicious texture for all brownie lovers. Photo by Andrea ... READ MORE

Category: Health & Nutrition
Tags: Alternative Recipes, Anikolai, Beans, Black Beans, Brownie, Dessert

Success Story: Better Beans Bring Hope of Reducing Food Insecurity

by Charles Boisseau

October 15, 2020

French version U.S. and Haitian researchers team up to breed high-yielding bean varieties adapted to Haiti’s environment Beans are one of the most widely consumed foods in Haiti, providing an inexpensive source of essential nutrients and ... READ MORE

Category: UF/IFAS Research, UF/IFAS Teaching
Tags: Area-project, Beans

Summer Vegetable Gardening in Hot Florida

by Kayla Hickey

June 19, 2020

During the summers in Florida, many house owners are looking for more ways to get outdoors. Vegetable gardening is a wonderful pass time; however, here in the sunshine state the high temperatures make it difficult to grow all year round. Sometimes ... READ MORE

Category: Agriculture,
Tags: Beans, Cover Crops, Okra, Solarization, Summer, Vegetable Gardening

Yard long beans – plus or minus thirty-six inches

by Ralph Mitchell

June 4, 2020

What do you call the vegetable known as the yard-long bean? Do you call it asparagus bean, Chinese long bean, long-podded cowpea, long bean, bora, bodi, pea bean, or snake bean? Whatever name you know this legume by, I am picking it in my ... READ MORE

Category: Agriculture, Fruits & Vegetables, Home Landscapes
Tags: Beans, Bodi, Bora, Cowpea, Pea Bean, Snake Bean, Vegetable, Yard-long Bean

Master Gardener Gardening Bench: Broad Beans

by Alyssa Vinson

October 17, 2019

Trying a Different Kind of Bean by Amy L. Stripe, Master Gardener 2008 Now is the time to plant broad beans (Vicia faba L.), also called fava beans. This highly nutritious bean is popular in the U.K., and my English husband has urged me to ... READ MORE

Category: Fruits & Vegetables, Home Landscapes, UF/IFAS Extension
Tags: Beans, Broad Beans, Fava, Growing Beans, Master Gardener, Vegetable

Helping Haiti Achieve Higher Black Bean Yields

by Mike Loizzo

July 31, 2019

For Haitians, black beans are a food staple and the most consumed bean in the country. But farmers there have one of the lowest yield rates in the world for the crop – 660 kilograms per hectare (ha-1). Franky Celestin, UF/IFAS Soil and Water ... READ MORE

Category: Agriculture, Crops, UF/IFAS Research, UF/IFAS Teaching
Tags: Beans, Black Beans, Franky Celestin, Haiti, Nutrient Management, Soil And Water Sciences, Soil And Water Sciences Department, Soil Science

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