Heavy bean bloom

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  1. Jimmy

    Jimmy New Seed

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    In all the years I've grown these old-time Appalachian greasy beans, I've never seen so many blooms as this year.
    If only half of the blooms make beans, I'll have more than I know what to do with. I've got 6 100 feet rows!!
     

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  3. Daniel W

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    Wow, that's a lot of beans!

    Can you eat the dry beans too, or just green?

    P.s. Welcome to Garden Stew!
     
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    Jimmy New Seed

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    A lot of people around here shell them for dry beans and also dry them for what we call shukie beans. I like to eat them fresh-picked. Either which way, they're the best-eating beans one can grow.
     
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    Looks like you'll have a massive crop either way.

    This week, deer ate my fenced-in bush bean plants. I'm planting more now, in a more protected spot. Just regular green beans but we like them.
     



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    Holy Beans Batman!! You'll need a picking party. That's fabulous Jimmy.
     
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    Jimmy New Seed

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    All those blooms have made tons of beans!!
    We've picked so many beans these past few weeks that I'm starting to see beans in my sleep
     

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    That's a lot of beans!
     
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    Wow! That's a lot of beans! I got 5 today. 1692401672120748950648580545660.jpg
     
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    So Jimmy, is shukie a recipe or is it what you call Appalachian greasy beans when they're dry? I looked it up and got a Minecraft thing and a bunch of people.
     

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