How to grow Hyacinth or Lablab Beans

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Try growing this bean in your garden for its tender pods that can be cooked and eaten. Lablab or Hyacinth Beans is a popular vegetable in South East Asian and African cooking. Its delicious pods make great vegetable curries. Remember this bean is different from Lima/Broad Beans which are grown for their seed. Hyacinth or Lablab beans are grown to harvest tender pods which are then cooked for eating. Royalty Free music Created by Jason Shaw. Music by audionautix.com

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White vaal beans from India grocery sprouted. You may try them. They may represent true Indian white flowered Chikkudu or Papdi.

Vaal beans or Rangoon field fawa beans available in Indian grocery are sprouting. You can try how they will come up. I will try them this spring.

Does it taste like vaal chikkudu kaya?

Chikkudu is here at 4.02 min in video. Shot in Telangana I know it by accent. This is a little different from Hyacinth.

This bean can make use same species of Rhizobium for Nitro fixation for beans and peas as per literature. You should try Micorrhize for Curry leaf plant for faster growth. I ordered live curry leaf plants also.

Chikkudu Kaya in Telugu is same as this? Seeds look the same. But Chikkudu pod is green and more in length and round in shape.

Check root nodules to see if rhizobium is fixing N2.

Lima beans look like this. I will try Lima which can be eaten green. This Hyacinth has nostalgic value of India

Thanks for the post. How do you propogate it?

my hyacinths bloomed like anything but now all the flowers have started falling off with tiny pods inside please suggest some remedy i really worried

you can dry the beans and make curry we do it in india

So many names in so many different languages, I'll add mine, we call it "Same". 9/3/2016 and I am presently growing it in Atlanta and I am getting some pods. I think I have enough to sauté with some potato and some seasonings. Oh but my pods are of the slender darker green variety.

does this plant... I m also a south Indian and we call it chikudukai... cab be grown in Indian rainy season... if yes does it long life???

Are the dried version of the beans edible, and if so, how do you cook it?

Hi, Thanks for all these wonderful video and tips you give us about gardening. All your videos are awesome. In this video I was looking for something else as the title says "How to grow Hyacinth or Lablab Beans" but the video was more on how to harvest these beans. I have a seedling started indoors for this Dolichos lablab, I was looking for any tips on how to transplant and grows it outdoors. Also it would be helpful if you have any tips on how to set up a trellis for this plant.
Thanking you in advance.

Thanks for making this video super helpful. You can definitely let the pod mature and take the beans out of the pod/shell. Definitely edible. In Kannada it is called avarekaalu and we use it to make up a or sambhar just like green peas.

We call this bean batao.

we eat the tender pods and we are still alive !

hi ..thankyou for the video .. its very informative .. i have the same plant in my house but a smaller one .. while picking weeds i have accidentally pulled out the stem of this plant which has flowers and tiny pods .. so if i replant the stem will it regrow into a new plant ? .. does stem cultivation work for this beans?

I am looking to buy some seed can you point me to any place that sells this thanks

Hi, I've been trying to germinate the seeds, but they only rot and do not germinate. Can you give tips on how to germinate the seeds?