Beans & peas · warm season
Edamame
Glycine max
Vegetable soybeans love Ohio summers. One 10-ft row is a serious freezer crop.
- When to plant in Ohio
- Direct sow late May to early June
- Harvest window
- August to mid-September, when pods are green and filled
- Days to maturity
- 75–90
- Spacing
- 4 in.; rows 18–24 in.
- Light
- Full sun
How to grow it
Sow 1 in. deep in warm soil. Inoculant helps if the bed has not grown soy. Harvest when pods are bright green and beans just fill them—too late and they turn starchy. Steam in the pod. Beer Friend and Midori Giant finish well here.
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Bush green beans 50–60
Pole beans 60–70
Lima beans 70–90
Garden peas 55–70