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Lima bean or Phaseolus lunatus is a legume that can be grown with very less inputs, thrives well in marginal soils thanks to its nitrogen fixing ability. This perennial climber was seen in Meerigama, Western Sri Lanka, growing well and lush in newly filled organic matter deficient soil. Grown in the open prone to pests and diseases but no damage was observed. Despite the fact that been grown on a marginal soil, it's giving a good weekly harvest.
Locally it is called Pathuru Dabala, Kos eta Dabala, Halmessan Dabala ( පතුරු දඹල, කොස් ඇට දඹල, හාල්මැස්සන් දඹල ) and seem to have been around for ages among local farmers. It's got really promising features such as drought resistance, high and fast yield, pest and disease resistance, ability to thrive in marginal soils while restoring soil, richness in nutrients as a food, importance as an animal feed etc.
It is important to cook Lima beans to get rid of cynogenic glucosides. Cooking removes it as hydrogen cyanide. However, cultivated varieties do not contain harmful amount of toxic compounds.
In this video I give you a brief intro of this legume climber and showing you how you can cook it. It can be cooked in various ways, the way I cook is my personal preference and I have highlighted some of the facts you should focus on. NEVER eat raw as a salad, young pods, leaves and seeds contain cyanogenic glucosides in large proportions, cooking is very essential.
I hunt for our long lost traditional food and I believe in the fact that the most healthy way is to stick to our old living system. Growing food becomes costly because you grow blindly and purposely weakened crops species. They need your support to face environmental insults as they have lost their natural capacity. This support should be given in terms of fungicides, pesticides etc. and synthetic fertilizer as well. If you turn back to growing old crop species, you help your life and your loved ones' in every imaginable way. My goal is to give this unique message to the world. To reject this harmful system, the CHANGE should be planted in you first.
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පතුරු දඹල කියන්නෙ බොහොම පහසුවෙන් එතරම් සාරවත් නැති පසක වුනත් වවාගෙන හොඳ අස්වැන්නක් ගන්න පුළුවන් එලවළුවක්..මඤ්ඤොක්කා වල වගේ සයනයිඩ් විශ අඩංගු වෙන නිසා හොඳින් පිස ගැනීම වැදගත්. මේ විශ වගා කරන දර්ශ වල අඩුයි.
පලිබෝධ හානි සහ ලෙඩ රෝග අඩු වේගයෙන් වැවෙන සහ ඉක්මණින් ඵලදාව නෙලිය හැකි අද වන විට භාවිතයෙන් දුරස්ව ඇති එලවලුවක්..රනිලයක් නිසා වායුගෝලීය නයිට්රජන් පසේ තිර කරමින් පස සාරවත් කරනවා..
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