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Are any members of the legume family perennials?

  • 10-07-2010 1:18am
    #1
    hello932
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    Ive got broad beans at the moment and they are the easiest thing to grow-all i did was put them in decent compost and water daily. Though these broad beans will be dead come winter...are any legumes perennials?

    Also i picked off a tiny green caterpillar off one of these leaves today...do are broad beans attacked by a specific type of butterfly?


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  • #2
    Mothman
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    Clovers are legumes.

    More than likely a moth caterpillar though never had an issue with broad beans like the white butterflies on brassicas.


  • #3
    555jman
    Registered Users Posts: 4 ✭555jman


    hi, im looking for the same thing. did you ever find out any info.


  • #4
    Andy-Pandy
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    There are perennial sweetpea if you not looking for something you can eat, lack any scent though as far as I can remember.


  • #5
    555jman
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    im looking for edibles, if anyone else is just wanting a nitrogen fix clovers will suffice


  • #6
    yellowlabrador
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    My runner beans survive in the polytunnel. They die back and reappear in the Spring.


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  • #7
    macraignil
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    Caragana arborescens, Caragana or Siberian peashrub is a small legume tree that yields edible pods. I planted some last year and did not get pods in the first year. There were some flowers so I would hope their might be some chance of some pods this year.
    Gorse is also a legume and I've read the flowers are edible but it might be too spiky for some gardens.


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