Office Work, Part Deux: Professional Mayhen

[Orchid]

Where is saddina?

 

[ChickenAlgebra]

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Got me, test it on your DH first.

Fine, I practiced my google-fu.

Harvesting:
Dry beans are harvested when they rattle in the pod. Pull up the plant by hand and hang from the roots. Traditionally, bean plants are lashed to a 5- to 7-foot high pole. You can harvest up to 5 acres of beans by hand but more than that will need specialized harvesting equipment for your tractor.

Dry beans require threshing – getting the beans out of the pods. For small amounts, you can do this by hand by squeezing the pods open. A traditional method is to hold the plant by the roots and bang it against the inside of a barrel. For more than about a half-acre of beans, you might want to invest in threshing equipment.

After threshing, beans must be cleaned and sorted. For small amounts, do this by hand, using a screen and a hair dryer to blow off debris (or an air compressor if you have it). Split beans can be fed to farm animals. For large bean harvests, you can buy a seed cleaner.

If beans are soft (bite one and see), continue drying them until they feel firm to the bite before moving them to storage.

Freezing beans before storage kills any potential insects such as the pesky bean weevil.

Storage and Preservation:
Store dry beans in a dry, cool, airtight container away from sunlight. Beans are best used in the season after they have been harvested, but they will last for several seasons if needed.

There ya go. Should be fine if none of the beans were soft.

 

[sparkles2307]

Quote:
Got me, test it on your DH first.

Fine, I practiced my google-fu.

Harvesting:
Dry beans are harvested when they rattle in the pod. Pull up the plant by hand and hang from the roots. Traditionally, bean plants are lashed to a 5- to 7-foot high pole. You can harvest up to 5 acres of beans by hand but more than that will need specialized harvesting equipment for your tractor.

Dry beans require threshing – getting the beans out of the pods. For small amounts, you can do this by hand by squeezing the pods open. A traditional method is to hold the plant by the roots and bang it against the inside of a barrel. For more than about a half-acre of beans, you might want to invest in threshing equipment.

After threshing, beans must be cleaned and sorted. For small amounts, do this by hand, using a screen and a hair dryer to blow off debris (or an air compressor if you have it). Split beans can be fed to farm animals. For large bean harvests, you can buy a seed cleaner.

If beans are soft (bite one and see), continue drying them until they feel firm to the bite before moving them to storage.

Freezing beans before storage kills any potential insects such as the pesky bean weevil.

Storage and Preservation:
Store dry beans in a dry, cool, airtight container away from sunlight. Beans are best used in the season after they have been harvested, but they will last for several seasons if needed.

There ya go. Should be fine if none of the beans were soft.

Thanks lol. So basically all the common sense I was using was accurate

 

[sparkles2307]

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I've been wondering that myself.....

Her last post was on 9-6.....

 

[ChickenAlgebra]

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I've been wondering that myself.....

Her last post was on 9-6.....

Me three. Is she moving about now to MI?

 

[Orchid]

I wrote on her FB wall to see if she's just been busy. I know homeschooling started up again full swing for them.

 

[Orchid]

sparkles, our gardens are going to die this week....and not in a fire either.

 

[ChickenAlgebra]

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Death by the opposite of fire?

 

[Orchid]

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Death by the opposite of fire?

Yes. You can still use the same acronym. DIAFrost.

 

[sparkles2307]

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DUDE, Mick said that if I cover my tomatoes they will be OK. I am pulling the old sheets out of the cupboard in the camper tonight! I don't care if I ever see a cucumber again, and I'm anxious for the squash to die down so I can pick them. But the tomatoes I will protect till the end. I planted them close enough together that 2 queens should cover them perfectly.


If Mick was wrong, KVLY will be hearing from me.