A field bean of a variety with small rounded seeds, used for feeding to pigeons.
小粒蚕豆；虫实豆
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‘At the moment we have kale, tick beans, and maize, but we've already got some canary grass planted in preparation for the start of the 2007 season.’
Our softfood is given daily and consists of growrite, soaked oaks, two large carrots, ground up beanmeal and tick beans which we get from a local farmer.
This is why green manure crops contain a high percentage of annual legumes, such as field peas or tick beans, usually mixed with field mustard, rape or cress, which provide sulphur.
Broad beans and their close relatives, the tick beans, are often grown as a green manure.
Use rye corn which is simply an extremely lush grass which is dug in when it's about half a metre high, or tick beans which are a type of broad bean.
The main crops under cultivation in the district were wheat, barley, oats, house and tick beans, known locally as redwells.
The pigeon food abounds with all sorts of goodies for the chickens and incudes things like maple and tick beans, cracked corn and goodness knows what else but it looks a really good mixture.
Origin
Mid 18th century: so named from the resemblance of the seeds to dog ticks.