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i read the description and noted the point about boiling them simply because they have a delicate flavor. i do that for almost all of...

That’s good. And in other ways I rate this bean very highly. It pods beautifully easily at the shelly stage too. You can just pull the...

I have picked just one pod. In view of your experience and the fact that the weather has turned rather wetter for a few days, I think...

Harvested a few more dried pods from Coal Camp before the rain started this morning. It survived a light frost without cover but I...

The 2025 beans are nearly all fully dry, just waiting on a small number of stragglers, some of the later formed runner beans in...

How are your Rose pods progressing? All here are picked and pods opened up to dry indoors as the seeds were germinating on the vine...

i still had some beans to pick but i'm not sure now that they'll be any good with how much rain is in the forecast. yet i will cross...

It can be difficult to pull them out if they have been driven in the ground to much over a foot deep. I had a fellow from Iowa help me...

The shelling continues and I'm taking mental notes as I go along. I must say, the 'Dakota Bumble' bush beans are just blowing me away...

Almost all of mine are podded too. An untimely early frost forced taking in all remaining mature pods for seeds to dry fully indoors...

Mine are all podded except for the few varieties which still need to dry down further. Some are still out there as we’re having a dry...

i know it is wonderful to get going on shelling beans. i've not had as much time in recent weeks as i would normally have but here or...

The End Of A Bean Season The Vines are now all bare The Supports Are Now Bare Without Vines...

Yes all done. I started shelling pods back in about middle of August and kept at it steadily when I wasn't doing something else. The...

Today I finished shelling the last pods I have harvested. I will photo all of this years grown beans and start packing them in a...