Posted by Grub on July 16, 2011, 5:48 pm
How do tell when they are ready? Three times now I've picked some and
one had nothing in it at all and the others had very tiny beans that had
obviously only started to grow
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Grub
Posted by David Hare-Scott on July 17, 2011, 1:01 am
Grub wrote:
> How do tell when they are ready? Three times now I've picked some and
> one had nothing in it at all and the others had very tiny beans that
> had obviously only started to grow
The pods have to be big and fat, you should be able to feel the beans
inside.
D
Posted by songbird on July 17, 2011, 11:35 am
David Hare-Scott wrote:
> Grub wrote:
>> How do tell when they are ready? Three times now I've picked some and
>> one had nothing in it at all and the others had very tiny beans that
>> had obviously only started to grow
> The pods have to be big and fat, you should be able to feel the beans
> inside.
can you see them through the pod
if the sun is behind the pod?
songbird
Posted by FarmI on July 17, 2011, 11:49 pm
> How do tell when they are ready? Three times now I've picked some and
> one had nothing in it at all and the others had very tiny beans that had
> obviously only started to grow
You can see bumps in the pod and you can feel them. Pick when the beans are
still small in the pod as big broadbeans are only good if you skin them
after they are cooked and who can be bothered doing that.
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> one had nothing in it at all and the others had very tiny beans that
> had obviously only started to grow