Hwo do you grow a navy bean plant?

Question

what temperatures does it have to grow in?

when is it ready to be picked?

what stages does it go through?

what type of soil?

Answer 1

It needs fairly warm temperatures to germinate the seed (60-70 degrees).  It grows best at warm temperatures 75-80 degrees, but will grow anywhere from above freezing and as high as 105 degrees.  Stages of growth: seed germination, seedling, vegetative stage, flowering, seed set, pod filling or seed maturing, plant leaf loss and seed dry down. Harvest when pods and beans are dry.  The beans are hard when you bite them.  They will grow best in a silt loam soil but will grow in most soils if they have enough moisture and the soil is well drained.

Answer 2

Plant the seed, allow it to grow irrigating if necessary, keep them weed free, and allow them to mature.

Navy beans will grow at various temperatures.  They are successfully grown in Idaho, Western Nebraska, and Michigan at least.

Navies are harvested mature or after the seed pods have dried.

Stages are vegetative, flowering, seed set, and maturing.

They do best on slightly Alkaline soils (pH 7.0 to 7.5) but can successfully be grown in the range of about pH 6.2 to 8.2

Answer 3

you plant it in dirt. It varies a lot from an army or airforce bean.Navy beans do well on battleships and frigates. You don't get as bad of gas from navy beans. They have been developed for the close quarters on ships to not stink as bad as other military beans