GA: Bush bean harvest in full swing!

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GA: FOY bush beans!

 That's about 65 days counting back to the first ones started May 24th, though there have been a few rounds since then, so who knows which these are from.

Bush beans sowed July 23rd/30th now starting to have harvestable beans (fresh not dried)

That's 8.5-9 weeks to harvest.

Allotment: Bush bean's second harvest (from first set of plants) happening now

Very cool!  I had read that bush beans will often produce a second, smaller flowering/harvest after the first, so it's good to leave the plants in place.  Indeed, the second flowering happening a while ago, and the harvest from that is now underway!

Starting to harvest Scarlet Runner beans (dried)

Two pods look maybe-ready, so I harvested one today.  It was brown, felt like paper and was harder to open than KWW, definitely a different feel overall.  But the beans inside seemed pretty dry.  And pretty, ooooh!  I'll leave the other for a while to see if it gets cracky like the KWWs.

No other Scarlets look ready yet -- all are green.

Starting to harvest dried Kentucky Wonder Wax pole beans

And hmmm, after shelling them, it's not looking like a lot of beans!  Will wait to weigh them until all have been harvested.

Setting these out on a kitchen towel to fully dry off.

The scarlet runner beans don't seem anywhere near dried yet.

Bush beans sowed June 8th are coming ready for harvest

The bush beans planted in the northwest corner of the central bed (where the barese was), sowed June 8th, now have some harvestable beans.  (I haven't harvested any of them yet though.)

So, that's about 60 days.

Beans: First harvest! -- Kentucky Wonder Wax (pole) and one or two of the bush types

Includes first bean harvest from the allotment (bush).

All were tasty steamed with margarine and salt, though not as delicious as I remember from last year.  Still very enjoyable though.

Green bean harvest and meal -- OMG delicious!! [but big ones have strings]

Harvested most of the rest of the green beans I planted for a fall crop.  They were quite small, but, weather isn't great and needed enough to add to the harvest a few days ago to make it worth steaming up.

So -- steamed them up for a few minutes, and had them with margarine and salt -- and WOW it was actually delicious!!  For being so unappealing raw -- what a transformation.  Makes me totally want to grow them again next year!

[Edited on 31 Oct 2022, after eating the final mini-harvest from a few days ago, to say that the full-sized bean pods have two strings each which are inedible -- so I just stripped them off while eating.  Might be worth looking for stringless type?? (if that exists) Or consider harvesting before full-size.]

First fall beans harvested! Skinny but I'll take them -- 65 days to harvest

The beans sowed on August 4th (or rather, the few that sprouted/grew) have been struggling with these cold nights as have the cucumbers, but today I noticed there were actually some harvestable-sized ones!  And with tonight's forecast of -1, figured I'd harvest those.  Still some really small ones on the plant, will leave those in case the frost holds off...