white beans

[brin]

So, did you talk to Duke about the secret family recipe? Bush beans (Blue Lake 274 Bush Beans), and Bush's beans are not the same.:confused3: However, if you plant those Bush's beans, the ants will all be your friends.:laughing:

So now I understand why my sweet potatoes did not sprout...I used a can of Lucks sweet potatoes and not a one of them came up...now I know ...

 

[jinman]

So now I understand why my sweet potatoes did not sprout...I used a can of Lucks sweet potatoes and not a one of them came up...now I know ...

Next year, go into your seed store and ask for a quarter pound of fast sprouting sweet potato seeds.

 

[brin]

Next year, go into your seed store and ask for a quarter pound of fast sprouting sweet potato seeds.

LOL- OK jim...gotcha...

 

[Gunny]

I've planted Great Northern beans from the grocery store two or three times, had pretty good luck with them. I've always soaked them in a little water the day before planting and probably get at least a 75% germination rate. I haven't done it for a few years because I didn't have the room to put out a drying table, and truthfully, they're so cheap at the grocery store, it's just easier to buy several bags at a time and keep them sealed up. Right now I've got two five gallon pails almost full in the pantry. Keep them in mylar bags inside a food grade bucket along with some of those oxygen absorbers, they'll be good for years, either eaten or as seed.

 

[Bird]

I agree, Gunny. I think dried beans of most any kind are too cheap to be worth growing your own.

 

[2LaneCruzer]

I agree, Gunny. I think dried beans of most any kind are too cheap to be worth growing your own.

We usually plant a raised bed (24X4) of Purple Hulls every year, after the onions are done. Purple hulls, if you like them, are usually better in my opinion, if they are picked, shelled and either cooked or frozen the same day. You also end up with some snaps which makes them a bit better. That small bed doesn't produce a lot of peas, but enough for New Years plus a couple big messes. As for beans, you're right. At our age, about the only thing we ever plant is the pole beans; about 5 minutes of the back breaking work of picking bush beans and I'm ready to quit and open a can of Bush's...or Bush Lite.

 

[jinman]

I completely agree with you guys. Dried beans are my preference. I do think home grown might have a bit better taste, but growing/picking/shelling is a lot of work. I love home grown bush blue lake beans for green beans only. I do think my blackeyed peas with snaps are worth the homegrown effort.

 

[Bird]

Unfortunately, the canned blackeyed peas in the grocery store, even those with snaps are quite mature peas, some even dried. Now that's better than no blackeyed peas, but I like them picked and shelled while still pretty small/green. And I never planted any purple hull peas, but I've been buying raw shelled purple hull peas at the Denton Farmers Market; $5 per pint from one guy and a bit more than a pint (in a one quart ziplock bag) from another vendor. I bought 4 of the ziplock bags of purple hull peas yesterday morning. No snaps, but peas off all sizes right on down to very small/green ones.

 

[RSKY]

Well I've got one better than all of you guys. I planted a total of thirteen fifty foot rows of purple hull and black eyed peas. Oldest daughter will eat them at every meal if they are available. She wanted to fill half her freezer full. Give her a couple ears of corn on the cob, a bowl of fresh purple hull peas and a pone of cornbread and she is happy.

Anyway, we got three quart bags of peas from all that work. Went to the garden on a Monday to pick green beans, looked at the purple hulls and decided they would be ready Wednesday or Thursday. Went back Thursday and there were NONE in the garden. Nothing but a bunch of deer tracks. The way the vines were squashed down it looked like the herd got half way thru, lay down and took a nap, then finished their feast.

RSKY

 

[Jstpssng]

Well I've got one better than all of you guys. I planted a total of thirteen fifty foot rows of purple hull and black eyed peas. Oldest daughter will eat them at every meal if they are available. She wanted to fill half her freezer full. Give her a couple ears of corn on the cob, a bowl of fresh purple hull peas and a pone of cornbread and she is happy.

Anyway, we got three quart bags of peas from all that work. Went to the garden on a Monday to pick green beans, looked at the purple hulls and decided they would be ready Wednesday or Thursday. Went back Thursday and there were NONE in the garden. Nothing but a bunch of deer tracks. The way the vines were squashed down it looked like the herd got half way thru, lay down and took a nap, then finished their feast.

RSKY

That sounds like my tale of strawberries and turkeys... 300 plants anr I picked a pint of berries. I picked up a solar panel last week... electric fencing next year.

On the bright side...after feeding on your beans those deer will be mighty tasty!