Recent content by reedy

Yum, I love shelly beans often mixed with some still tender pods. Generally, I think when the beans start to fill out more the pods often get tuff or stringy, but it depends largely on the variety. Flavor changes too as the seeds get bigger. The woman here likes greasy beans when they are pretty...

I also like most all beans dry, except for black beans of any variety, we separate them out for black bean salsa. A lot of red beans are also separated and canned with spices and hot peppers for chili. All the rest are generally just mixed up for bean soup. I don't remember why I did the...

I don't know how much genetic adaptation may really be happening, but I like fast maturity in all my crops, so I figure saving from the first pods might encourage that. I also like to save for disease resistance so IF I have that option, I save from pods that have no, or at least less blemishes...

I commonly harvest snaps from pole beans and then let more finish for dry beans. Even when I do that a few of the very first pods from several plants are left for seed, even before harvesting snaps. My priority in those we like both snap and dry, are seeds - snaps - dry. Of course, some are only...

I also plant very early, basically as soon as I can work the ground. I have plenty of seed too so if a frost takes them out, no big deal, I just plant some more. But if it doesn't then I have very early beans. When saving seeds, I like to save the first and best, so I take the risk of...

That is how I understand it as well. Two different F1 seeds from the same plant might be different but all of the resulting seeds from any single seed will be the same. Although over the course of many years I have seen two or three examples that make me wonder. They might have been the result...

Yes, they do. They also are the best I know of for making leather britches. They rehydrate quickly and cook tender; the flavor that way is great. I have quite a collection of greasy beans, one my Granny grew many years ago and several from Bill Best seeds swaps. I really can't say though, that...

Ah, I've made it all through the bean show! Now I'm chomping at the bit to get more back to beans next year. I've grown beans every year of course but was focused a lot on some other crops last couple of seasons. Now off to the web site to pick out about a 100 that I want :)and then struggle...

I wonder by the name if Seneca Cornstalk is a true cornfield bean, it that it grows and produces in the shade deep inside the corn patch rather than just in the sun on the outer rows. Ohio Pole grows like that, and they look similar except different color. In fact, Ohio Pole seems to need the...

@ducks4you I'm afraid they won't photograph well as they are, so I'll try to describe them. Each individual trellis for five to six vines is made of heavy woven wire, it's four-foot high fence but I rolled it out flat and cut it lengthwise into strips. Each strip has three or four of the long...

I'm in middle of making a bunch of new bean trellises for next year and thought I drop in for a minute while making a pot of coffee. WOW, lots to catch up with on the 2022 bean show. Raining a little off and on, supposed to move in more steady this afternoon, I'll have something to do.

That's why I gave up on trying to track where a new bean may have come from. Used to when I grew just a few kinds and mostly for use as green beans, it was uncommon and easy to spot when a new one showed up. When I started growing a lot of beans and a lot of kinds for use as dry beans, I started...

Weather is always an issue anymore. It had been hot and dry here, not terrible hot or dry like in a lot of places but pretty hot. With mulch and just a little bit of watering my beans and most other things were doing well. Starting last few days of July and every day so far in August it has been...

Thanks everyone for the welcome back, I think it's been three, maybe four years that I've been gone. I know for sure it was before the covid thing. On growing beans with corn, I've done that many times and still do, but differently than most people. I agree the native gardeners probably grew in...

Hello bean people. I've been absent for a while. Focusing mostly on other crops in my gardens past couple of seasons but chomping at the bit to dive into some new beans next year. I've got about thirty picked out just from the network pages, o my, that will have to be trimmed down a bit, just...