2025 Little Easy Bean Network - Growers Of The Future Will Be Glad We Saved

[flowerbug]

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 groundhogs and they left enough stem that the stem survived but they have no leaves and haven't grown at all other than sitting there since whenever they were chewed off.

 

[Blue-Jay]

One other thing I failed to mention to you or @Neem5MI, is that the pods seem to have a papery husk similar to onion skin on the inside. Something I'd never encountered before but sure did make shelling the dry seed a bit messy

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 developing. When the pods become dry some varieties the white membrane breaks up easily and it flys all over during shelling. Some varieties the membrane stays intact very well and doesn't come lose. Those are what I call clean shelling pods.