Will It grow?

Question

For my project I am planting two seperate lima beans. If I get the lima beans from a normal grocery store where you have to cook them before you eat it (but I won't cook them) Will it grow? Or do I need to buy different beans?

Also will anything grow in all purpose potting soil? Or would I need something else?

Answer 1

Well you probably need to get a real seed. Usually grocery store lima beans are predried...

You can probably find a site on the internet to purchase some seeds. And they should be able to give you hints on the type of soil to use.

Good luck! I hope your projects works out :O)

Here are some links I have found ~

http://www.learner.org/channel/workshops/nextmove/beanview/viewpart.php3?exp_id=82

http://www.essentialgardenguide.com/garden-vegetables-planting/28/Lima-Beans/

http://home.howstuffworks.com/how-to-grow-vegetables.htm

http://dollarseedstore1.chainreactionweb.com/index.php?cPath=17_19&osCsid=5776555ad5cf3039b98b08d0db192d85

Answer 2

They should grow. I have grown navy beans before from a package bought at the grocery store for eating. Buying regular seeds can get expensive. Buy a bag of beans from the grocery store and you get probably 20 times as many seeds and its cheaper. Regular potting soil should work just fine. But lima bean plants will get pretty tall and bushy, I think.

Answer 3

the beans you buy from the store are seeds of the beans plant... and so seeds should grow. but there's a little catch here. beans normally sold in stores are from hybrid plants. that means they have been specially bred for certain qualities... eg the time they take to grow, or the size of the beans, etc but these breeds are owned by certain companies... and what they to make the farmers go back to them for next years seed is they breed them so that the seeds produced from these plants are sterile. So these hybrid seeds will not germinate (grow). Otherwise farmers would just save some of the beans and plant them next season instead of going back to these companies for more seeds.

Sad thought though is that most farmers in developing countries do this and the normal (not hybrid) seeds dont get planted, and get more and more rare. In the end we'll be left with a situation where companies own patents to the food we eat... not a very comforting thought.

so the answer is: if they are hybrid beans... no, they wont grow.

Answer 4

the beans should grow just fine. the potting soil is just fine also. lots of sun good farming

Answer 5

it'll work, one time a bean accidently wound up on our back yard and started to grow, my mom had thought i had planted it. but it gre on it's own

Answer 6

Should work. Soak it in water overnight and you'll have faster germination when you plant it.

Answer 7

yes

Answer 8

Yes, it will grow.