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I shelled the 'Stanley' bush bean pods tonight. That was a truly stellar green bean, a standout of 2025. And it stood out again as a...

Early this morning 10-24-2025 we had a killing frost. Growing season is now over. This was almost three weeks later than many of our...

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

I wish I had gotten a picture of them freshly shelled, they've lost a bit of brightness in the last month sitting dried, but my crop of...

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...

All the pods I've shelled so far, as well as all the dried garden plants, got wood chipper-ed and I spread the crumbs across the beds...

Yah, I guess they are pretty similar!

I am just loving this new bean, Siebenbürgen-Kärnten! It's looking pink right now, but I can see it's color shifting quickly to a...

i did go out and pick some beans today even if i was sticking to the top of the garden itself. now they are all spread out and drying...

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...

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...

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...

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...