Your 2024 Garden

[NanaK]

Butter beans are that green gold for us. We have tons of bloom but no beans. They are growing right beside the peas that have done so well so I know it is not the soil or pollinators. I have some pole butter beans (King of the Garden) I'm going to plant now and hope as a fall crop they produce.

We love butterbeans fresh or dry.

I have no experience with King of the Garden. I don't know why they are not forming pods for you.

Have you ever tried Carolina Sieva Pole butterbeans?
I started growing it years ago and always save seed for the next year's planting. They have become difficult seeds to find for sale. Very old heirloom.
They usually do well even in the heat and humidity.

I should have enough seed this fall to share. Won't do much good for now but you would have them for spring.
Would you like me to save you some?

 

[Nomadicus]

We love butterbeans fresh or dry.

I have no experience with King of the Garden. I don't know why they are not forming pods for you.

Have you ever tried Carolina Sieva Pole butterbeans?
I started growing it years ago and always save seed for the next year's planting. They have become difficult seeds to find for sale. Very old heirloom.
They usually do well even in the heat and humidity.

I should have enough seed this fall to share. Won't do much good for now but you would have them for spring.
Would you like me to save you some?
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When shelled as green are the beans white or green? I know of them and know where to get seed.

 

[NanaK]

When shelled as green are the beans white or green? I know of them and know where to get seed.

When young green pods are shelled beans will be green.

Fat mature mostly green pods have beans that are
white.

Yellow pods will have white beans.

Dry brown pods are always white.

They seem to produce quickly for a pole bean. I try to plant in April and they produce all the way to frost.

Butterbeans should germinate quickly this time of year.

Approximately when do you get a first frost?

 

[Nomadicus]

When young green pods are shelled beans will be green.

Fat mature mostly green pods have beans that are
white.

Yellow pods will have white beans.

Dry brown pods are always white.

They seem to produce quickly for a pole bean. I try to plant in April and they produce all the way to frost.

Butterbeans should germinate quickly this time of year.

Approximately when do you get a first frost?

Average first frost is Nov 5th.

 

[Nomadicus]

When young green pods are shelled beans will be green.

Fat mature mostly green pods have beans that are
white.

Yellow pods will have white beans.

Dry brown pods are always white.

They seem to produce quickly for a pole bean. I try to plant in April and they produce all the way to frost.

Butterbeans should germinate quickly this time of year.

Approximately when do you get a first frost?

As the beans that come out of green pods that are getting fatter and turn white is there a big change in flavor of the immature beans from the early green ones?

 

[Nomadicus]

I bought a bag of giant sized Lima beans a few years back at a grocery store down in south FL and planted them. They turned out to be a pole bean and I never got to get them off of the ground. Paying job before retirement got in the way.

 

[NanaK]

As the beans that come out of green pods that are getting fatter and turn white is there a big change in flavor of the immature beans from the early green ones?

I don't notice a big change in flavor as the fresh beans mature to white.

There is a change in flavor of the ones I completely dry to store as dry beans.

We like them both ways.

 

[NanaK]

I bought a bag of giant sized Lima beans a few years back at a grocery store down in south FL and planted them. They turned out to be a pole bean and I never got to get them off of the ground. Paying job before retirement got in the way.

I have always wonder if the dry beans at the store were pole or bush.

 

[Nomadicus]

I have always wonder if the dry beans at the store were pole or bush.

I think the most are bush so they can be harvested just like soybeans. Eastern CO has beautiful flat land bean farms where beans are harvested like wheat is in Kansas. I was amazed as we passed through the farms along I-70 on our way to Colorado Springs.

 

[Nomadicus]

We picked another weeks supply of Zipper Cream peas today and should be picking another 3 week supply either Wednesday or Thursday from what we planted where some of them got flooded out. I did mow down and prepare for tilling a place to plant some black eyed peas and the purple hulls today. The rain missed up today and if it does again tomorrow I can plant them tomorrow PM along with a couple more rows of okra.