Velvet Bean is a natural testosterone booster that also boosts your well-being and gives you extra energy. Here’s how to grow them.
Boost Your Testosterone With Velvet Beans
You wouldn’t have guessed that a crazy, vibrant plant like this would be a natural testosterone booster, would you?
Velvet beans can actually boost not only testosterone but also dopamine levels, making you feel better about life. So if you work out or need more energy, Velvet Beans are for you.
They are also known as natural aphrodisiacs, and they have several other pleasant benefits.Search everywhere and you will find many Information on its health benefits.
What are velvet beans?
This wild bean is something many people have never heard of, so by now you might be asking yourself, “What is a velvet bean?”
Mucuna It is a fast-growing vine native to the tropical regions of southern China and eastern India. After centuries of cultivation, its pods are prized for human consumption, while its leaves are used as animal feed.
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With the popularity of the plant, velvet beans have become a hot commodity. In fact, these seeds are quite expensive these days because they are known as health supplements.
Fortunately, once you have the seeds, you can plant many, many, as long as you have a long enough growing season. In North Florida, they grow like weeds.
How to Grow Velvet Beans
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Growing these power-packed pods is easier than easy.
Plant velvet beans in the spring after all danger of frost has passed, and give them something to climb on—just be aware that they will completely cover small trees and shrubs. Even medium-sized trees can be overwhelmed by their strong, twisting vines.
In other words, don’t plant them next to your award-winning camellias.
They can tolerate some shade but do best in full sun. Poor soil isn’t much of a problem – they can handle it thanks to their nitrogen-fixing ability.
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They grow very well in hot weather and lots of rainfall. Irrigation will make them grow faster if it doesn’t rain; however, I plant mine half-wild in the yard and never water. . . I still have a lot of beans.
I even guerrilla planted them in a clearing near me to get them to grow well. If the soil is good enough, I think they will naturalize (they pretty much already do this in my food forest – I always plant a few every year even when new ones aren’t being planted).
notes: There are more wild velvet beans, covered with stinging hairs, hence the name “mad beans”. Most of the ones I grow have this property, although dealing with fluffy velvet pods can make you a little itchy, especially if you have sensitive skin.
Cooking Perfect Pods
Cooking velvet beans takes about 15 minutes to boil.
When the beans fill up and turn green, I pick them, put them in a pot, cover with water, add plenty of sea saltthen cook until softened and beginning to crack, revealing the delicious beans inside.
The pods themselves are tough and inedible, but the seeds inside taste like cooked green peanuts.
Once I cook my green velvet beans, I shell them, dry the green beans, and freeze them so I can ration the beans throughout the year. Pods are only produced in late summer and fall, so you need to plan ahead.
How to Use Velvet Beans
You know your pods are ready to serve when the beans are nicely filled, but the pods haven’t dried out. If you want velvet bean seeds, you’ll need to let them dry on the vine until the pods are nice and firm.
You can roast the seeds and use them as a coffee substitute, but unfortunately they lack caffeine.
Dried beans can also be used as a health supplement, but I’m sticking with delicious green beans.
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Velvet Beans are powerful medicines that contain a variety of bioactive compounds. A friend of mine eats a lot every day and gets a migraine as a result.
A few will suffice – although they cook so well that you’ll want to eat lots and lots of them.
I eat five beans a day for a couple of weeks, then quit smoking for a week, then do it again. Video by John Starnes on Velvet Beans Introduced me to the on and off method, which should help keep your body from getting too used to the effects of dopamine and testosterone. Seems to work well.
where to buy velvet beans
So – there you have it – a natural testosterone booster that you can grow in your garden. The most common question I get asked about this tropical bean is where to buy velvet beans. I got them through other gardeners, so you can start with a friend like I did, or try buying them online.
To see what they look like on the vine and how I cook them, check out my short video:
What do you think?
Do you have experience growing or eating velvet beans? Any clues on where to buy velvet beans? Let me know in the comments below. Or start growing your own plants next spring before moving in!
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