Green Bean Time!!

[5030]

Beans, beans, the musical fruit (vegetable actually), the more you eat, the more you toot.

 

[Jstpssng]

Beans, beans, the musical fruit (vegetable actually), the more you eat, the more you toot.

Technically it is a fruit, as it's the seed bearing part of the plant.

 

[jyoutz]

Technically it is a fruit, as it's the seed bearing part of the plant.

Yep, the pod and seed together are the fruit.

 

[oosik]

Back before all the forest creatures found our garden - it was bush beans and cucumbers. Majority of the cukes became cucumber pickles. We had grape leaves and grew our own dill also. Then one year we put one of our big crocks - half full of bush beans/half cucumbers. There is NOTHING finer than freshly pickled green beans.

Down in our basement it's cool and dark. Never needed to can anything. Both the beans and the cukes kept all winter in their crocks. We used five twenty gallon crocks.

We never canned anything. Freezing beans is just so much easier.

BTW - tried growing our own garlic also. No Joy - something kept eating it. Got plenty from a local farmer.

 

[RalphVa]

Best beans are asparagus beans. Other beans just quit in the heat. They just keep on bearing.

 

[jyoutz]

Best beans are asparagus beans. Other beans just quit in the heat. They just keep on bearing.

My blue lake pole beans start producing in late July and continue into September. But that time of year isn’t very hot where I live.

 

[RalphVa]

My blue lake pole beans start producing in late July and continue into September. But that time of year isn’t very hot where I live.

Asparagus beans have started the last couple weeks and go on until frost.

 

[WVH1977]

I have picked over 2 1/2 bushels on my beans. The last picking was bushel and a half. I have got one more good picking before they start burning out. I will plant more in a week or two for my late beans. We have canned 16 quarts so far and given away a ton to friends and family. Love my green beans!!!

 

[5030]

Mine are way behind you guys but I have at least 50 plants to pick from. I like green beans as well because the plants and legumes and have underground nitrogen fixing nodes that impart N into the soil.

I only do a single pick as a rule because subsequent picks... the beans get tough. I'll do one pick and turn the plants under and call it good and nest spring, sweet corn gets planted where the beans grew.

we mostly freeze them in ziplock freezer bags and they keep very well.

 

[5030]

Got a late start this year due to a lot of rain. Was impossible to plant anything until June. Now, no rain so I'm watering the garden nightly. Supposed to have T storms next week. I'm good with that.