Growing beans

[Waiting]

This year we planted some pinto beans to see how they would do. Wow! You plant one bean and get about 100 yield. Just plant and water. They like to climb so give them a pole or fence to climb on and they will go to town. We just waited until they turned brown and dry and then picked and shelled them. It's a great feeling to see a whole bucketful of beans that we grew from just a small handful. And BTW these were just beans out of a bag that we bought to store.

[Klayton]

They weren't magic beans?

Been looking for those magic beans for what seems like forever...

=)

[crossbow]

This year we planted some pinto beans to see how they would do. Wow! You plant one bean and get about 100 yield. Just plant and water. They like to climb so give them a pole or fence to climb on and they will go to town. We just waited until they turned brown and dry and then picked and shelled them. It's a great feeling to see a whole bucketful of beans that we grew from just a small handful. And BTW these were just beans out of a bag that we bought to store.

I used to help my grandfather shell beans many yrs ago, when the stalks turned brown, he would cut them off at the ground and tie them in bundles and hang them on the back porch to dry a couple weeks, them he would put the stalks in a burlap bag, hang the bag and have us kids beat the bag with sticks to knock the beans out of the pods. then on a real windy day he would dump the beans from one bushel basket to another and the wind would blow all the pods and chaft out of the beans. then he would hang them in the attic where it was warm and dry.