Edamame
Edamame: Sowing, planting and harvest calendar
Edamame are soybean seeds eaten while still green and immature. The plant is Glycine max, an annual in the pea family, originating in Asia. Edamame mainly describes a use and harvest stage: several vegetable soybean varieties can provide these fresh beans. Selections intended for this use are valued for fairly large seeds that are tender and pleasant after cooking.Soybeans form upright bushes with branching stems and green foliage. Garden varieties often reach around 60 to 90 cm, with differences according to selection and conditions. Developed leaves have three leaflets. Stems and pods carry visible hairs, giving the plant a different appearance from smooth green beans.Small flowers, white to purplish pink, resemble pea flowers. They precede short pods grouped along the branches. Several rounded seeds swell inside, often two or three per pod. At the edamame stage, pods remain green but are well filled. Seeds then have tender flesh, a mild…
