Edamame!

PA Wolf · June 15, 2016

I have an edamame pod on my plant! This is my first year gardening and my daughters love edamame so I planted some. Glad to see they are going to produce

PhilaGardener · June 15, 2016

Hope you have only two daughters! (One seed each!)

Oh, I see more flowers in there coming along!

What variety are you growing?

PA Wolf · June 15, 2016

Just a generic edamame plant by Bonnie.

PA Wolf · June 15, 2016

Better produce more than just this! There are definitely more flowers ready to bud. Doesn't mature until early August.

PA Wolf · July 1, 2016

Something ate both my edamame plant tonight. Pods, leaves and most of the stem, I'm so ★★★★ed. Even ate 1/3 of my carrot tops that were cruising along nicely. Finally installing a smaller bird netting style fence over the top and attached to the current fence around the outside.

So bummed, all that hard work just to feed a chipmunk/squirrel/raccoon.

KC.Sun · July 2, 2016

I'm suffering from a grasshopper invasion. They go after my edamame plants more than anything else in my garden.

Zeedman · July 2, 2016

Soybeans are like candy to most herbivores; I had little need for fences until I began growing edamame. Rabbits would pass everything else without damage, and mow the soybeans to the ground. Deer & ground hogs would eat the soybeans first, then nibble on something else. Fencing is pretty much a necessity when you grow soybeans, unless your intent is just to feed the wild life.

Isabelle · July 2, 2016

Exciting times.

Knowing that the wildlife love it so much, I wonder if I planted some of that as a sacraficial crop if the stinking rabbits would leave the rest of my garden alone.

PhilaGardener · July 3, 2016

PA_Wolf, sorry to hear about your plant.

Isabelle, I suspect you would just have more rabbits!

June 15, 2016	#2
PhilaGardener Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jan 2014 Location: Near Philadelphia, PA Posts: 1,940	Hope you have only two daughters! (One seed each!) Oh, I see more flowers in there coming along! What variety are you growing?

June 15, 2016	#3
PA Wolf Tomatovillian™ Join Date: May 2016 Location: PA Posts: 46	Just a generic edamame plant by Bonnie.

July 1, 2016	#5
PA Wolf Tomatovillian™ Join Date: May 2016 Location: PA Posts: 46	Something ate both my edamame plant tonight. Pods, leaves and most of the stem, I'm so ★★★★ed. Even ate 1/3 of my carrot tops that were cruising along nicely. Finally installing a smaller bird netting style fence over the top and attached to the current fence around the outside. So bummed, all that hard work just to feed a chipmunk/squirrel/raccoon.

July 2, 2016	#6
KC.Sun Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jun 2015 Location: 6a Posts: 322	I'm suffering from a grasshopper invasion. They go after my edamame plants more than anything else in my garden.

July 2, 2016	#7
Zeedman Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Dec 2011 Location: Wisconsin Posts: 313	Soybeans are like candy to most herbivores; I had little need for fences until I began growing edamame. Rabbits would pass everything else without damage, and mow the soybeans to the ground. Deer & ground hogs would eat the soybeans first, then nibble on something else. Fencing is pretty much a necessity when you grow soybeans, unless your intent is just to feed the wild life.

July 2, 2016	#8
Isabelle Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jun 2016 Location: Kansas Posts: 57	Exciting times. Knowing that the wildlife love it so much, I wonder if I planted some of that as a sacraficial crop if the stinking rabbits would leave the rest of my garden alone.

July 3, 2016	#9
PhilaGardener Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jan 2014 Location: Near Philadelphia, PA Posts: 1,940	PA_Wolf, sorry to hear about your plant. Isabelle, I suspect you would just have more rabbits!