I grew these beans last summer. Times like these, it feels good to have done something with my own hands, and to have stored it up for winter cold. These beans are Vermont cranberry, black coat, hibiscus, soldier beans, pink-eyed beans, scarlet runner, black turtle, and other varieties. #gardening #garden #food
Followup: I made tasty bean and kale soup with beans I grew! And home-grown tomatoes I canned last fall! 😍 #garden #food #madebyme
@crystalvisits Your beans are beautiful.
@crystalvisits
Beautiful! Dry beans are my favorite crop, although over time I've winnowed things down to 3ish varieties that are both easy to grow in my relatively short season, prolific, and easy to shell. The latter requirement removed black and calypso beans from rotation, haha. Now I mostly do Bingo pole along with cranberry and heirloom yellow (buckeye) bush.
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@aosmith16 ooh, I'd not heard of bingo pole beans, but the pics of the shelled beans and the description seem similar to my fave fresh beans at the seed stage, rattlesnake pole beans? Love them.