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Beaning In the New Year

Posted on January 3, 2012 by Dirt to Dinner

It’s done! In honor of the New Year I have finally shelled, frozen, sorted and stored all the beans from the 2011 growing season. Well, all the ones we didn’t eat, that is. We’ve already made chili with 2 cups of the ‘Scarlet Emperor’ beans and had baked beans out of another cup of the ‘Jacob’s Cattle’ beans.

Filed under: Cooking, Harvesting | Tagged: Dirt to Dinner, dried beans, growing beans, growing food, growing vegetables, urban farming | 1 Comment »

Five New Beans

Posted on May 29, 2011 by Dirt to Dinner

The last beans to go in are the Limas. They like warm soil, which is in short supply again this year. It takes several days for them to emerge from the soil and spread their wing-like seed leaves. I’m nervous a bird or bug or varmint will devour them before photosynthesis even begins but keep your fingers crossed for me. If you’re experimenting with new bean varieties in your garden this year, let us know what’s working well for you and how you’re growing them.

Filed under: Growing, Learning, Planting | Tagged: Dirt to Dinner, drying beans, green beans, growing beans, growing food, growing lima beans, growing winged beans, urban gardening, yard-long beans | 3 Comments »

Up the Bean Pole

Posted on June 15, 2010 by Dirt to Dinner

Why didn’t I get more pole bean seeds? They are so much easier to find room for. Though I think the real question will be, how many beans of a given variety do I need to plant in order to save enough dry beans to cook something from them?

Filed under: Cooking, Growing, Planting | Tagged: Contender Beans, drying beans, growing beans, growing dry beans, growing food, growing vegetables, Hutterite Soup Beans, kitchen garden, locavore, raised bed gardening, seed-to-table, Tarahumara beans, where food comes from | 2 Comments »

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