10 Best Plants To Grow Next To Lima Beans (And 3 To Avoid)

From flowers to food crops, discover the plants that do well growing alongside these legumes, plus three that are best left ...
University of Delaware

Lima bean lines

Creating a lima bean with built-in disease resistance to root knot nematodes — parasitic worms that cause crop damage — takes a lot of patience and time, requiring years of breeding and the careful ...
University of Delaware

More lima beans, please

UD Cooperative Extension part of $3.3 million grant that aims to boost lima bean production and demand Lima bean, butter bean, double bean, sieva bean: Whatever you call it, University of Delaware ...
Idaho Statesman

Like beans? Here’s a rundown on how to grow them

Most of us who garden don’t have the space to grow grain crops such as wheat or barley, but we have space to grow legumes such as beans and peas. Legumes are second in importance only to grains in the ...
The Baltimore Sun

Garden Q&A: What’s chewing the leaves on lima bean plant?

Q: Something is chewing my lima bean leaves. What should I look for, and how do I treat it? A: It’s probably Mexican bean beetles, which feed on all types of bean plants and can have between one and ...
Scientific American

To Plant Lima Beans

Scientific American is part of Springer Nature, which owns or has commercial relations with thousands of scientific publications (many of them can be found at www ...
Washington Examiner

Grant pushes lima bean research in Delaware

NEWARK, Del. (AP) — Love them, hate them or indifferent to them, lima beans are big business in Delaware and somewhat of a “Small Wonder” of their own. For starters, Delaware’s Secretary of ...