Vegetables · Warm
Edamame
Fabaceae
At a glance
- Plant spacing
- 25 cm
- USDA zones
- 5a–10b
- Frost-sensitive
- yes
- Growth duration
- 12 weeks
Which beds suit?
- Sun (prefers)
- full sunAlso okay:partial shade
- Soil (prefers)
- loamyAlso okay:raised-bed mixsandy
- Drainage (prefers)
- normalAlso okay:very free-draining
Seed & start
Direct sow
Sow directly into the bed — no pre-culture needed.
Stachi's tip
Edamame is the soybean, but harvested young and green — Japan's protein-rich snack. Direct-sow mid-May after the last frost, harvest August. Briefly boil whole pods in salted water, then pop the beans out. Like all legumes, a nitrogen fixer.
Sowing
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Harvest
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Good neighbours
Avoid these neighbours
Good pre-cultures
Stachi has no specific pre-cultures recorded.
Sources
- LLM-Baseline-2026-05-27 Phase 7 expansion
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