Mung Bean Plant... How to grow?

[The Gardener]

Hello. Now the suns coming back i'm getting into gardening again, and for one of my projects i'd like to grow one or two Mung bean plants. I don't mean the sprouting seeds, I mean an actual plant.

has anyone tried this? I've looked on the net but all i've found so far is this page: Mung Beans

I've been specific with search engines, but many sites still assume I mean the sprouts. D'oh!

The Gardener

[zazen999]

Hi

I've moved your thread put of Growing Techniques, as that is not a Q&A forum.

I did the same with pinto beans last year, and got enough of a crop to freeze for my chillis, and only ran out of beans a few weeks back.

[The Gardener]

Almost forgot I posted this... The first bean I planted kind of rotted in the pot. I tried two more last week and one of them is pushing through the compost, but it seems at a very slow rate.

Maybe they're similar to Pinto beans. Zazen, is there anything you can tell us that may help?

Happy Gardening.

The Gardener

[The Gardener]

Hello again, thought i'd bring this postback to life. Still looking for answers.

[zazen999]

Aye - sow later as the beans rot if sown earlier. I'm STILL picking pintos from my later sowings. What's that all about - it's NOVEMBER this weekend.

[snohare]

I sowed a half dozen this spring in tubs on the kitchen windowsill, three came away, eventually I planted them out at the allotment and they flowered, but they never set seed. Still growing away the last I saw.

[ecoprincess]

How did your mung bean plants go? I'm looking at growing some this year, just sowed some seeds into pots on my windowsill

[maypril]

If memory serves me right, mung beans won't set in the UK climate. They need hotter temperatures.