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if you can pick the beans when you want and cook them and they taste ok and have a texture you like then they're fine. :) i think the main thing for a shelly bean though is that they do shell out easy at that plump stage. there are very few beans i've had that i didn't like as a dry bean.

and then there are also shelly beans, which are harvested plump in the shell before fully dried down, usually this also implies that the beans are easy to shell out at this stage. some lima beans are also really good at this stage.

if you like greens like spinach you may like pea shoots, they taste as good to me as the pods do, but you do want the right kind as some don't taste as good. i'll eat them right out there in the garden along with pods and peas.

... oh yes. :) it is how i know that we are getting closer to bean planting time when i start seeing some poking up out of the ground. i expect i will see some in the next few weeks.

sunny and warm enough to be outside! :)

i was able to get outside today for a while. weeded, picked gravel out of the dirt, buried some bean pods and bones from a roasted chicken for a while and then went and tried to find the poison ivy in some bushes - could not find it at all. i actually sweated a little. <horror>

welcome to TEG from mid-Michigan. :) i've found myself that it is much easier to have larger areas than many smaller areas to keep up. each edge and pathway is more work. i also like the freedom to rearrange the layouts in a larger space where in comparison to a smaller garden bed you may...

I wonder if it may be that they don't have as many native bees that will cross beans in Europe but I don't know for sure if that is what is going on? :)

i think you mean lectins?...

does it wash off?

sometimes she doesn't feel that way but we get through it... heeheehee...

yes, @Blue-Jay i have seen some of those variations. :) i'm not growing out VBE that often any more though now but if i see that color/pattern come up i'll save them for you.

yes, i see they've posted that for us now - hard freeze for tonight, and chance of frost for tomorrow night too. we just skirted frost here last night.

once in a while when i get up and if Mom is awake but laying in bed i'll go and jump on her bed and bounce up and down. and then give her a kiss and tell her i love her. she'll fake scream. it's funny. :)

no frost last night but close 34F this morning and sunny. the ufo has returned! forecast for tonight is 26F. frost warning posted...