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Went



Joined: 19 Mar 2006
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PostPosted: Fri Sep 25, 09 5:02 pm    Post subject: Collecting your own dried beans Reply with quote
    

I have just spent a lovely hour on the terrace splitting the pods of dried beans, first time this year and will probably only get around 5 kilos. Although very time consuming, it will be a good feeling next time we have a bean salad or paté made with our own beans.

Does anyone else?

gz



Joined: 23 Jan 2009
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Location: Ayrshire, Scotland
PostPosted: Fri Sep 25, 09 5:05 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

I'll just be saving runner bean seed this year- everyone had sold out of Brown Dutch this year so I'm ordering earlier next!!

Sally Too



Joined: 14 Sep 2006
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Location: N.Ireland
PostPosted: Fri Sep 25, 09 5:07 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Mine are still on the plant in the polytunnel..... perhaps tomorrow.

I grew runner beans and french beans - and really preferred the taste of the runners when green. So I left all the french beans to mature. They are the Cherokee Trail of Tears variety from Real Seeds. The pods are now a deep purple.

I've left a few runners to mature also as they don't cross pollinate with french beans and I can plant them next year.

Green Rosie



Joined: 13 May 2007
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Location: Calvados, France
PostPosted: Fri Sep 25, 09 7:58 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

5kgs sounds like a decent harvest to me. I'm waiting for some French beans to dry (the ones I forgot to harvest fresh) amd may have enough for the equivalent of a couple of tins of baked beans!

ksia



Joined: 17 May 2006
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Location: Mayenne, France
PostPosted: Fri Sep 25, 09 8:09 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Dried beans gathered: barloto, la victoire, butter, yin-yang, runners. Pea beans still drying on the plant.

Green Rosie



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PostPosted: Fri Sep 25, 09 8:15 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Slight aside but I must remember the herbs that are in the drier

Behemoth



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PostPosted: Fri Sep 25, 09 8:31 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

I used to do this but the last three summers have been very disappointing for beans.

VM



Joined: 23 Nov 2007
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Location: Lincolnshire
PostPosted: Sat Sep 26, 09 1:35 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Being in Manchester rather than Spain, we've not managed to dry beans as yet - autumns have just been too wet / cold.

However we leave almost all our runner beans to turn into beans for podding and then we freeze them - I'd rather dry them so as to be less reliant on freezer, but have to say the frozen ones have been delicious in past years.

wellington womble



Joined: 08 Nov 2004
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Location: East Midlands
PostPosted: Sat Sep 26, 09 2:26 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

borlottis have done well, although I''ll probably freeze rather than dry, as they cook quicker. Yum.

Millymollymandy



Joined: 23 Sep 2005
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Location: Brittany, France
PostPosted: Sun Sep 27, 09 6:31 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

I'm leaving runner bean pods on the plant for the first time but when do I harvest them for the beans inside? Do they go yellow and dried out like borlotti beans? They don't seem to be doing anything except staying green! The plants themselves are over in the sense that they haven't produced anything new to crop for the last month.

Went



Joined: 19 Mar 2006
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PostPosted: Sun Sep 27, 09 7:08 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Millymollymandy wrote:
I'm leaving runner bean pods on the plant for the first time but when do I harvest them for the beans inside? Do they go yellow and dried out like borlotti beans? They don't seem to be doing anything except staying green! The plants themselves are over in the sense that they haven't produced anything new to crop for the last month.


We left them on the plant for as long as possible - yes they do dry and go yellowish - (weather depending), we then stripped the leaves and hung the plants for a few days to dry further - stripped the pods and left the beans to dry. Novices here too but followed what the locals do and it has been successful. A few pods take longer to dry but we have left those for later.


Millymollymandy



Joined: 23 Sep 2005
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Location: Brittany, France
PostPosted: Sun Sep 27, 09 12:42 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Cheers! I see you are in Spain so probably a lot hotter than Brittany but I'll wait and see what happens - though frosts could come before they turn yellow! But it's only a bit of an experiment so it doesn't really matter as I have plenty of runner bean seeds.

Went



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PostPosted: Sun Sep 27, 09 1:49 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Northern Spain so not much warmer than where you are at this time of year I wouldn't think - good luck with them.

Nanny



Joined: 17 Feb 2005
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Location: carms in wales
PostPosted: Sun Sep 27, 09 6:12 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

interesting thread

would it work with my peas that i have left on the plant as well and can i pick the pods, put them in the airing cupboard to dry out and then strip them off?

this is wales and they aren't going to dry on the plants outside

we are still eating our runner beans here but they mature much later up here on the mountain

Went



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PostPosted: Sun Sep 27, 09 8:26 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Hi Nanny - can't see why not - give it a go and let us know . can't get dried peas here so that would be something for us to try next year - I love mushy peas

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