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Wonderful pod set @Branching Out! 🤩

Have you ever tried eating them as green beans @Decoy1? If I had planted more I would try them, but given how few plants I put in I...

Some of my bush beans are also oddly slow to make pods this year too. Not all of them, but a fair few. My Babcia Aniela bush beans...

I think I'm having a rather odd bean year. Early part of the season was dry and I watered. We have gotten more rain lately and I have...

An early sowing of Sunshine (yellow pole snap bean) that is growing in a hot, dry spot under the overhand of our neighbour's cherry tree...

It's an interesting year because I'm doing a 2nd grow out of several bean varieties I grew last year. I don't often do back to back...

It is my experience too that it’s very early. It’s a favourite with me. I love its cheerful earliness and also very much like its lovely...

All beans have that inner white membrane inside the pods. I think that is to help the growing pod maintain moisture while the seeds are...

as i'm weeding today i'm finding bean plants that look like pencils covered by the purslane. they were chewed off by rabbits or...

yeah, those bits fly around on the merest thought of a breeze.

I suspect they're best when the seeds are formed but relatively small. When i sampled them I didn't pick any that were overly large or...

New bean bed photo, waiting for soil. DH nailed some old strips of siding inside to hold them all together, and prevent soil seeping...

I obtained them through a USDA trial last year. Pods do get tough as they mature. When I sampled them last year the larger pods were...

What is the longest you can harvest the pods and still have them tender?

San Fiarce here was the first pole bean to climb in the plot where other pole beans are growing. The beans in this particular plot were...