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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...

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...

Thanks @Dahlia and @flowerbug - it's something i didn't imagine in the past, but as i am on the way, have to embrace the challenges...