2022 Little Easy Bean Network - We Are Beans Without Borders

[Greasy]

Sorry Living Room anyone need any Greasy bean seed

 

[BeanieQueen]

You are not the only one that devotes alot of living room and bedroom space to seeds. I was able to leave enough walking space to navigate from place to place in the house. Below is how my living room looked about two weeks ago.
My house is built with a living, dining, kitchen room design. The living and dinning room just sort of merge. You have to imagine where one ends and the other begins. I sleep in the master bedroom and I have sheets of cardboard under my bed with bean pods drying. The space at the foot of the bed has a large sheet of cardboard drying Andromeda lima pods that I picked absolutely green. Only a few were beginning to dry. The wall space is devoted to red styro picnic plates with beans drying.

This is how things looked about October 5.

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This is the dinning room south wall before you get to the entertainment center in the living room.

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Pods drying in front of the TV entertainment center.

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The living room. I have left enough space to get out to the backyard through the slider.

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A little space in front of the my green desk.

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More space to use at the end of the couch near the west wall of the living room.

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The beans are the only guests that will occupy the couch for a while.

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Next to my recliner and more usable space on the side of the dinning room table. The dinning table is shelling central for now.

View attachment 52661Behind my shelling chair. A more recent photo. Those cardboard sheets have been picked over lately for dry pods. They were chocked full a week ago.

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The master bedroom with Andromeda pods drying. I have more sheets of Andromeda pods drying elsewhere.

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Bedroom near the front door. The last place I had pods drying on cardboard. Those limas are more Andromeda. After I shell them I will find out if there were any segregations this year. Andromeda grew in isolation this summer. There is another bedroom the same size as this one with a single bed in it filled with drying plates and the wall space is also covered with drying plates.

I am absolutely overwhelmed by your photos! So many cardboards and plates and bags and plates and cardboards! Bean heaven is very close there.

And I am really surprised how green many of those harvested hulls still are! I wonder: do the seeds come out of them nice and smooth in the end or are they shriveled?

 

[jbosmith]

I'm wondering about row orientation.

If bush beans are in rows running North to South, would you put the taller runner beans on the West side of the garden, or the East?

Or maybe I've got it all wrong and the rows should be running East to West?

Most of my beds run north to south, but it has more to do with locations, water flow, and access than anything else. I'm not sure it makes a difference otherwise. If you plant the tall stuff at the northern edge it won't shade anything but itself. Unless your beds are super crowded or you're growing incredibly tall things, it'll be fine regardless.

 

[heirloomgal]

You are an inspiration to us all. Good work.

Aw thanks Jack, what a kind thing to say. I'm happy to have the bean network here to share in the bean growing journey!

 

[heirloomgal]

You are not the only one that devotes alot of living room and bedroom space to seeds. I was able to leave enough walking space to navigate from place to place in the house. Below is how my living room looked about two weeks ago.
My house is built with a living, dining, kitchen room design. The living and dinning room just sort of merge. You have to imagine where one ends and the other begins. I sleep in the master bedroom and I have sheets of cardboard under my bed with bean pods drying. The space at the foot of the bed has a large sheet of cardboard drying Andromeda lima pods that I picked absolutely green. Only a few were beginning to dry. The wall space is devoted to red styro picnic plates with beans drying.

This is how things looked about October 5.

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This is the dinning room south wall before you get to the entertainment center in the living room.

View attachment 52655
Pods drying in front of the TV entertainment center.

View attachment 52656
The living room. I have left enough space to get out to the backyard through the slider.

View attachment 52660
A little space in front of the my green desk.

View attachment 52657
More space to use at the end of the couch near the west wall of the living room.

View attachment 52658
The beans are the only guests that will occupy the couch for a while.

View attachment 52659
Next to my recliner and more usable space on the side of the dinning room table. The dinning table is shelling central for now.

View attachment 52661Behind my shelling chair. A more recent photo. Those cardboard sheets have been picked over lately for dry pods. They were chocked full a week ago.

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The master bedroom with Andromeda pods drying. I have more sheets of Andromeda pods drying elsewhere.

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Bedroom near the front door. The last place I had pods drying on cardboard. Those limas are more Andromeda. After I shell them I will find out if there were any segregations this year. Andromeda grew in isolation this summer. There is another bedroom the same size as this one with a single bed in it filled with drying plates and the wall space is also covered with drying plates.

Wow, incredible @Bluejay77 ! Now this is a picture of dedication!

 

[heirloomgal]

@Greasy I love it! We're a bean drying club at this point, woven together across the distances with our cardboard flats!

 

[heirloomgal]

Welcome @mahon67 to the LEBN!

We'd love to hear about the kinds of heirloom beans you grow in your gardens in Turkey! We love pix too! This is a great forum for learning about bean varieties & bean growing techniques!

 

[Blue-Jay]

Yes Welcome @mahon67, So glad you are here. You will enjoy this thread and you might have things to teach us too. I have one grower already in Isparata.

 

[flowerbug]

Sorry Living Room anyone need any Greasy bean seed

you can delete that mistaken/empty post. i reported it because it was an obvious mistake but was told that you should remove it yourself.

 

[Blue-Jay]

And I am really surprised how green many of those harvested hulls still are! I wonder: do the seeds come out of them nice and smooth in the end or are they shriveled?

If your pods are very swollen with seed and you might be within two weeks of a hard freeze. You can cut the vines at the soil line and let them dry for a while. Then harvest them before a freeze even if the pods are still green. If you have judged that you need to allow your green pods to continue to develop all the way up to just before a frost and your pods are swollen with seed go ahead and harvest them and dry them indoors. Most pods give me smooth well filled out seed with good color. Your seed will color up during the drying process in the pod. Sometimes I get a few shriveled seed but that can't be helped. I am drying my entire Andromeda pod harvest from 99.99% green pods. I'm drying my Forelle Fleiderfarben pods from green pods. I cracked a couple open yesterday and they look fabulous. This year will be one of the best Forelle Fleiderfarben harvests I have had in 8 years. My Rio Zape that I have been growing from time to time since 2012. I have never harvested Rio Zape from a dry pod off my plants. The variety is so late here I'm always harvesting the pods green. You will see all the seed of every variety that I have grown this year. Good or bad or in between. After I get all the shelling done. I'll be doing photos of every single kind I grew.