Darren James Cooper I have found that with broad beans you can eat the pod and the beans, I’m not sure if you would be able to dry the pod and eat it though
Nice to know that you have been growing beans for such a long time. I just planted beans in recycled icecream containers in UAE. Am just wondering is this the right time to grow that. It is 38-42 Celsius degrees here.
Also, after you harvest the beans of the plants, let the plants compost back in the soil. Beans rejuvenate the soil and return lots of nitrogen back in the area they are planted. So not only is growing beans smart for a food source, but the soil is then enriched again, so it can be planted with something else. This is a great crop to grow, just to get a planting spot ready for a different more feeder hungry vegetable.
Beans are so resilient! I soaked a big bowl of garbanzo beans to sprout and grow in my garden. I sprouted way too many so I tossed the leftover beans in my flower bed thinking they would eventually break down. Boy was I WRONG lol I now have hundreds of garbanzo bean plants and green pea plants growing in my beds!
I have been growing beans for as long as I can remember and leave half my crop on the vines. Come late September and October I start collecting of all varieties of colourful dried beans from Bartolli , Lab Lab to Runner beans which are an awesome purple! Leave them for a few weeks in trays to dry and then store them. Absolutely delicious in any dish from stews to fried rice. Nutrition dense food. You are so correct in saying they are neglected! In fact you are the first person to ever talk about dried beans on You tube as far as I know! Excellent work! I tell my fellow growers, not to panic if going on a vacation. Just leave the beans on the vines and forget about them. Harvest them late. Such a great tip! Thanks for your brilliant videos as I love watching them.
Also the dried plant can be fed to your animals as legume hay. Sheep, goats, horses, cattle will all eat it and so will your chickens. Not much hay but if you grow a large quantity as we do we make many bales of hay from the 5 acres of beans that we grow. God Bless Joe
I've been growing and drying beans for over 50years. Some I leave dry, and some I can. They are a staple in my pantry. There's nothing like a pot of ham and bean soup on a cold winter's day.
@@frankstockton4480 Eight pounds per person yields about 6 pounds per 10 foot row. I space them about 6 inches apart, in rows about 2 feet apart. If you are just beginning, your local cooperative extension service has a wealth of growing knowledge that is specific to your area.
I love beans, but I'm Mexican lol. When I moved out of my mom's house I got excited to start buying canned" beans. I thought 'it's easy and quick'. My mother always thought canned beans were a waste of money. Then after months, I realized on how much we do consume beans, she was right lol. Now I buy the 25-pound bags of pinto beans from Costco. I personally love making black bean soup. But, I will eat them with just about everything or alone topped with fresh tomatoes, onions, and a dollop of sour cream. Now, I'll learn how to grow them myself, thank you.
oh my gosh, thank you so much! I had no idea I could turn beans into flour! I have Celiac and cannot eat gluten flour and gluten free flour (the yummy kind) is quite expensive, so I will have to try turning beans into flour!
We have been growing pinto beans, it just makes 1-2 big pots (we have a big family) but they taste so different from the store versions! They grow so easily, 3 months or so and they are ready. Slowly learning about more bean varieties.
I have two favorite beans that I don't think I could ever choose from. Anasazi beans: These beans are gorgeous, their skin is white with dark and vivid red splotching. I adore them mostly for color, as I only have a few seeds and haven't gotten a harvest yet. They are quite interesting with their growth as well, as they climb and wind up other things. I would call them runner beans, but I do not know if that's accurate as I am not as familiar with beans. Lima beans: I love Lima beans. There are many colors to them, I love the shape and I especially love their flavors and how well they do in soups. Even if they're just boiled and then coated with a bit of butter, they're amazing.
I use beans in my garden as a survival staple. I grow for seasonal consumption as well as winter consumption. Nothing better than enjoying your own food you produced.
When I plant my beans, I put 2 or 3 in each hole. I do not thin them, amd have never been held back in production. Black beans dehydrated well and lasted through the winter. Green beans blanched and frozen lasted a long time as well. You said growing in bundles, right? What do you mean? How many plants are all together in your bundle?
Beans really are versatile. They absorb a ton of flavor and provide so many nutrients + fiber. Interesting analysis of having Americans incorporate them more into our food. In Latin American culture they really are huge and act as small purveyors of protein + other minerals. Good stuff to think about. Thanks for sharing so much of your knowledge!!
I buy dry beans all the time and literally never had the thought that I could grow them instead! Seriously thank you for flipping that light on in my head haha! 🙏🏼
Favorite beans for me - probably a tossup between pinkeye purple hulls, and Crowder peas. My fella’s favorite for sure is Crowder peas, and we have had one kind of a time finding any of them in the store at all. I keep a little garden, so I found some place that could sell me some mail order Crowder peas for seed and planted some just in time to get a small crop before the freeze. I don’t know if we’ll get enough this year to make him one good bowl of them, but I grew them, and have more to plant come spring. If I do things correctly we won’t ever have to worry about where we’re going to find Crowder peas again. My fella has said to me more than once, “Why in the world would anyone work that hard at keeping a garden when it’s so easy and inexpensive to just run down to the store?” What I usually tell him is that I enjoy it, like a hobby. But the larger truth is the idea lurking in the back of my mind, that we never know what can happen, to shut things down so that even if you could get to the store, they might not have what you’re looking for. Big storms, flooding, winter storms. Seems like winter storms have been the worst for that. I’ve had a few disappointing garden years, and when I do have a disappointing garden year, I’ll bring that slender produce in and say, “if we were depending on this poor harvest to get us through the winter we would be in trouble.” I feel like I’m really learning a lot from you, Luke, someone young enough to be my grandson. I appreciate your videos. Thank you. Yes, dried beans are an excellent idea.
I've been a vegetarian for the past 17 years, so beans are a staple in my diet! The important thing is to soak beans or any type of legume before eating them, even going so far as to sprout or ferment them and other grains. This reduces the amount of phytic acid in them and makes them more digestible! I couldn't pick a favorite type of bean, but for people who live in the desert I'd recommend they try growing tepary beans. Tepary beans are extremely heat and drought tolerant, as well as being extremely healthy and easy to grow. They're such an underrated crop it's ridiculous.
I live in Florida and the ONLY time I buy canned beans is for hurricane preparedness due to a possible electrical outage. I am actually even looking into saving up to get a pressure canner so that I can preserve my own beans because a bag of dry beans from the dollar store (if you don't much care about organic) can give you several pints of cooked beans. Ounce per ounce the home canned beans are a fraction of the price of store canned beans. For $1 you can have 6 or more home canned pints vs 1 can of store bought.
We find that shelling beans in the evening while we watch tv is relaxing and satisfying. We grow Cherokee Trail of Tears beans because they make the best green beans we've ever eaten. We were happy to find that they dry nicely and taste great in recipes calling for black beans.
I triesd growing those for the first time this year and couldn't agree with you more. They were deliicious right off the vine. I haven't cooked the ones tha I dried yet, but am glad to hear that they are great for that, too.
I practically live on dried beans as a main staple of my plant based diet. I grew a 100 ft row of Roman beans., harvested as green beans then let the rest dry. It was incredibly labor intensive to pick and especially to shuck 15 lbs of them. There are plans out there to convert a wood chipper into a mini combine to dehusk the beans. I have found the number one crop for food security is winter squash like butternut. Easy to grow, pull them out of the garden, rinse, dry and store in a dark dry place that doesn't freeze. They will last about a year and they have all of the nutrients. Very little work.
I always grow Navy, Great Northern, Light and Dark Kidney beans for dried beans. This year I added in a few more varieties. Love the great mix you can grow and dry for soups,
This year while I was canning pinto beans from the store I got a silly hair and decided to plant one bean for fun. it was super satisfying to get that harvest! One bean 100 percent germination on that guy. and that one bean turned into about 50. I should have counted or weighed them. Next time. The plant took up about as much space as a bush bean. the one thing I did not hear you mention is that with dried or soup beans it is a MUST to let then dry on the plant! Great video Thank you for your time Good Gardening
Such an important video! The amount of shelf space dedicated to dry beans in the supermarket is pretty minimal!! They taste so much better than canned too! Thanks Luke.
Kari Loughrey the south has never stopped appreciating beans. Especially being southern and growing up poor, red beans and rice with cornbread were eaten at least once a week.
When I lived in southern California, my Kentucky wonder beans did great. I picked fresh green beans off them for a while, and since I’m a bad gardener I forgot about them then came back to harvest some dry beans. A really multi purpose plant.
My grandmother who was from New Mexico said they would put the dried pods and bean plants in a big paper bag or gunnie sack and step on it to separate the beans from the plant material. She grew up on pinto beans so they grew a lot of them and saved time by doing this. The beans actually would be at the bottom due to their weight. Hope this might help a few who are looking to harvest a lot of dried beans.
My favorite green beans are White Half Runners. My favorite dry beans are probably Kidney Beans. A close second would be Great White Northern Beans. We eat loads of beans in our diet. I live in far western NC. Beans are a very common staple in most pantries and in almost every garden here.
I didn't read the description and was prepared for the "superfood" of the moment to be recommended. But you clearly have thought this out because beans are exactly what you say they are!
beans are so versatile also-- bean burgers- soups --pastes--refried beans-- dips- and most people dont realize you can make Hummus out of any kind of beans and herbs and spices you like-- my daughter makes an awesome buffalo dip using white navy beans instead of chicken and it is amazing- thanks for the bean share-- blessings....
I'm 68 and have never planted or considered planting anything until this year. I want to be prepared for if/when SHTF and have been researching container gardening tubers. Light bulb moment with this piece of info. Brilliant idea I had not considered. Thank you so much for sharing!!! ❤❤❤
I have several different type of beans and because I was raised old school I keep a variety of beans in my house...those are the beans I started seeding and they have taken off
Food security...something we all need to keep in mind these coming days. Love all types of dried beans. They can be prepared and eaten in so many different ways. Dry canning beans is nice for long storage.
I love growing dried beans for exactly the reason you listed- something to remind you of your garden in the deepest of Winter. Never enough Cattle Panels to grow the amount and varieties of beans I would like to however. The 87-bean soup will have to wait.
Awesome. Will definitely be growing beans. I remember my grandmother harvesting her beans by pulling the entire plant, then running her hands down to pull all the pods, then sifting the beans. Can’t wait to harvest mine.
I love beans, I grew them for the first time last year and I think it will be a staple in my garden from now on, I grow kidney beans, black turtle, and Jacobs Cattle bean. I have pressure canned them too, so i have fast beans on the ready and I did dry some out too.
Don’t cut your hair! It looks great. I am shelling Kentucky Wonder beans and Scarlet Emperor beans. My grandfather used to grow these as part of his winter bean mixture. I wish I knew all the other varieties he grew, but I’m making my own mixture. I grew 1500 year old cave beans this year and they did great. Also purple pole and yellow wax pole. Can’t wait for next year to use what I learned this season. A lot of what I learned came from you. Thank you!
Thank you for all the information you provide. Two points of interest I didn’t hear you mention that you might want to share with your viewers if you do another video about dried beans ... 1. legumes are very heart healthy and 2. if beans give you gas, try eating small portions every day for a couple of weeks until your body adjusts to them or add ginger when cooking.
Canadian here, love your channel! You've helped me to have the confidence to grow my own food and the knowledge to actually keep it alive. As for beans, oh man.. beans are the best during the long cold winters, just fills you right up. I normally use red kidney beans (but i am open to all beans) in soups, stews, or veggie burritos!
@@pebblepod30 Go to Refika's Kitchen on TH-cam, see if she has one, she has awesome Turkish and some "fusion-style," and USA "dupe" Fast Food Recipes. Plus, she's comical and fun!
I wished I’d payed more attention to my dads dry bean gardening. He would plant them in every nook and cranny, any spare space in his flower gardens. 🦋💜
How long does it take to dry from seed to drying? How would you prepare it to save for winter? Would you seal it in Mylar bags? What’s the best way to save these? Do they need any sterilization after?
I just put some cooked red kidney beans in my dehydrator as an experiment to see what would happen. I coated them in Sriracha sauce, smoked paprika, and a drop of liquid smoke. They turned out so good! Crunchy barbecue flavored beans. I forget what it's called, but they sell some kind of barbecue flavored bean snacks in the health food section at the store and they're ridiculously expensive. My recipe turned out just as good and it's way cheaper to make. If you don't have a dehydrator, I'm sure you could do it in the oven as well.
Here in SA beans are one of th most high priced foods compared to other food and not lots of people can afford,so if people start growing beans in their homes it will help as you saying food security.
Never throught of beans this way before! Tho I do know they last very very long, my parents have bought more dried beans than canned since I was young! But now I see them in a slightly more informed light I thinking my fave beans are lyma beans! :)
This is something we got into this season for the first time! We trialed 2 kinds of beans for Baker Creek this year and loved both. Good Mother Stallard is a beautiful one we trialed - I got over 6lbs of dried beans from 13 plants! Looking forward to making baked beans, white bean chili and soups with them this winter. We also grew Fort Portal Jade, also lovely but not as happy with the high humidity we have in GA. Rabbits thought they were the tastiest plants too :) lovely green. jade-like beans once dried. Seeing these along with the purple hull cow peas in the pantry makes me smile every time I go in!
Just got my homestead bean packs from y’all two days ago. I am surprised how much I’m enjoying growing beans but they are a quick and easy to grow. I’m trying to grow 80% of our food.
Hi, Luke. Yes, I grow dry beans... My two favorites are Haudenosaunee Skunk Bean (aka Iroquois Skunk Bean) and Orca Bean (aka Yin-Yang bean). Best wishes from Kate in Olympia, WA - 9/20/2019.
I buy dry beans fairly regularly. I 1 pound packages of several different beans or legumes in my cart. When I get home, I open the packages up and dump them in a large bowl. Using my hands, I mix the beans up as well as they can mix. Then I put about 2 cups of dry beans into a zippered bag. I keep filling bags until I have emptied the bowl. Dry beans are very versatile. For the cold weather, I like to make mixed bean chili using one of these packages and add an onion that is chopped up. When the beans are tender, I add in my herbs and spices. My slow cooker is a big help. By dinner time, my chili is ready to eat with homemade cornbread.
Try anasazi beans. Beside being very tasty bean similar to pinto beans. It's a very pretty bean. And has a interesting past story. Believed to have gone extinct centuries if not a millennia ago. Found in a cave and brought back
One of the first things that I grew in my new raised beds was pinto beans. They were very easy to grow and I was able to store them for the next season. I am working on trying to grow lentils and chickpeas as well. Not much success so far but I am working on it.
Luke thank you, never really thought about dried beans from a garden. I'm have gained a lot of information from your channel. We do a 7 bean soup and white beans and ham. Again thank you, take care and best wishes
Pinto beans are very nice. I have a variety of red and brown beans that have cross bred. They grow so fast you can almost see them do it. They produce great crops, and they grow in the winter right up to the frosty times. Thanks for this video, you are so right. Beans are a great and easy crop which could save your life.
Last year I grew pinto beans. This year I grew Lima beans. ♥️ growing beans and letting them naturally dry. Also have seeds for next year. 👍🏾🙂 Fav beans to grow: Scarlet Runners. The beans are like beautiful jewels.
I planted beans for the first time this year because I came across some unique pink beans called "Princess Rose" from a local seed company. Every single one germinated in-ground, and with some mulch, they all powered through a drought (with water restrictions, no less). I now have fresh beans every few days, and hopefully some dry beans at the end of the season. For anyone not excited about beans I highly suggest trying a rare or interesting variety to get yourself looking forward to the harvest.
My favorite bean is Fort Portal Jade, a small round bean that dries a pretty blue-green. I grow a ton of cow peas each year. I'm looking at growing succotash beans, yardlong beans, and Cherokee Trail of Tears next year.
@@dianapiccoli4103 Baker Creek a few years ago, but it looks like they're not in stock now. I've noticed that the Fort Portal Jade tends to come and go. You could try Etsy and Ebay for seeds. My own supply is short currently, otherwise I'd send you some.
I like to eat peas and beans raw, and ate the first few lima beans raw. Then I read somewhere uncooked they have the most cyanide of all beans. Then I realized that yes, I was having stomach issues after eating them.
@@minihaha3940 you have to soak them to remove the tanin. Then you can eat them a variety of ways. Also easy to preserve. The natives on the east coast used them as a food source.
Angelo Barker thank you so much. I use to collect buckets of them and feed to the critters in the winter. I never knew l could eat them also. Thanks l will try them. Thanks for your reply
It's the first thing I plant in Spring & I plant a variety: a few bushes of bush beans for green beans and at least two kinds of pole beans for dry beans. I love preparing them in this way: Soak them overnight, rinse & cover with water boiling them until tender then drain, add olive oil, garlic, salt & coarsely ground black pepper, fresh or dried thyme & a good squeeze of lemon juice. Fry them until fragrant & serve hot with fresh bread & a salad. Simple but utterly delicious!
Yes!!! Legumes are the bomb!!! My favourites are black beans and chickpeas. Nothing beats a spicy black bean burger topped with hummus, lettuce, tomato and red onion. Thanks for spreading the awareness!
>.> you have never been to a korean household. My rice! My family puts every kind of bean in there cause its "healthy and i need it". Lima beans are the worst. They disintegrate into the rice. Then my family eats bean encrusted rice cakes. I do like red bean paste tho. I eat every form of soybean. Natto. Tofu. Fermented soybean paste. except fried tofu skins. Its too sweet for me.
@@BatmanPwnage Yeah right, I was talking about the western diet (west europe (germany in my case) / USA). In Asia & South America it's different (propably one of the reasons, why you have lower heart attack & cancer rates^^). I plan to make some korean oder japanese candy with red bean paste, I love the idea!
My family ate dried beans during the recession a lot, my father (our only source of income at the time) worked at one of the banks that didn't survive the recession, so although we weren't at risk of starving there definitely was some financial difficulties.
Started my garden a year ago in the winter. I grew tons of squash, watermelon, tomatoes, cucumbers but not beans, peas and potatoes. I will this year. I’m honored to grow radish, lettuce broccoli in the winter time
That's a popular misconception. Most of the people don't toot at all when eating beans, and almost all of them won't have flatulances at all after some days/weeks of eating beans regularly.
@@magischepflanzen758 I dare you to have a large bowl of borlotti or salugio beans. If you don't blow your blankets off the first night, I'll send you a whoopee cushion. I consider these beans to be dangerous weapons.
Haha - I'm just hulling today's harvest of borlotti beans, cranberry beans and fava beans as I'm watching this! I completely agree with you. I don't let them dry though; I let them grow until they're full-size but the pods are still fresh. Then I hull and freeze them in bags. It's great to have beans I can spontaneously use without having to plan ahead and remember to soak them overnight. The ones I'm hulling right now are for a soup for dinner, with carrots, celery, potatoes, leek, parsley root and lovage, all from the garden. :)
@@jelatinosa We had a power outage last year during a very violent storm, but it only lasted about 15 minutes or so. We're lucky that outages are a very rare (and normally very short) occurrence here in Germany.
@@beautyforashes2230 where I live, Puerto Rico, we can have outages that last days, and these have no real cause. After hurricane Maria hit us, we didn't have power for months because our electric grid is so old and crummy throughout the island. We get short power outages often that can last from a a few minutes or hours, up to a couple days.
@@jelatinosa Oh wow, that's so awful! I'm sorry to hear that. Do places like hospitals, where power is a question of life or death, at least have an emergency generator?
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I've been growing beans for over 35 years and they are always the crop I can count on succeeding.
Yeah I grow and eat the whole pod early as I simply have not got time to shell or peel them takes too long unless u have other suggestions.
Darren James Cooper I have found that with broad beans you can eat the pod and the beans, I’m not sure if you would be able to dry the pod and eat it though
@Saltyyy Kush420 you could cull some of them or use extra fertilizers to help with that situation some.
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Nice to know that you have been growing beans for such a long time. I just planted beans in recycled icecream containers in UAE. Am just wondering is this the right time to grow that. It is 38-42 Celsius degrees here.
Also, after you harvest the beans of the plants, let the plants compost back in the soil. Beans rejuvenate the soil and return lots of nitrogen back in the area they are planted. So not only is growing beans smart for a food source, but the soil is then enriched again, so it can be planted with something else. This is a great crop to grow, just to get a planting spot ready for a different more feeder hungry vegetable.
Beans are so resilient! I soaked a big bowl of garbanzo beans to sprout and grow in my garden. I sprouted way too many so I tossed the leftover beans in my flower bed thinking they would eventually break down. Boy was I WRONG lol I now have hundreds of garbanzo bean plants and green pea plants growing in my beds!
Wow! I hope you put all those extra beans to good use! 😅🤭
I have been growing beans for as long as I can remember and leave half my crop on the vines. Come late September and October I start collecting of all varieties of colourful dried beans from Bartolli , Lab Lab to Runner beans which are an awesome purple! Leave them for a few weeks in trays to dry and then store them. Absolutely delicious in any dish from stews to fried rice. Nutrition dense food. You are so correct in saying they are neglected! In fact you are the first person to ever talk about dried beans on You tube as far as I know! Excellent work!
I tell my fellow growers, not to panic if going on a vacation. Just leave the beans on the vines and forget about them. Harvest them late.
Such a great tip! Thanks for your brilliant videos as I love watching them.
Are Lab Lab beans/hyacinth beans edible? Are their fresh pods edible raw like snap peas and green beans?
Also the dried plant can be fed to your animals as legume hay. Sheep, goats, horses, cattle will all eat it and so will your chickens. Not much hay but if you grow a large quantity as we do we make many bales of hay from the 5 acres of beans that we grow.
God Bless Joe
I've been growing and drying beans for over 50years. Some I leave dry, and some I can. They are a staple in my pantry. There's nothing like a pot of ham and bean soup on a cold winter's day.
rachel ball what is your bean to harvest ratio? I have a family of three and want make sure I plant enough.
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@@frankstockton4480 Eight pounds per person yields about 6 pounds per 10 foot row. I space them about 6 inches apart, in rows about 2 feet apart. If you are just beginning, your local cooperative extension service has a wealth of growing knowledge that is specific to your area.
@@frankstockton4480 sorry Frank, I meant to say 8 plants per person. It was a rough night lol.
rachel ball Thank You for the information and the speedy reply.
How do you store them Rachel ball? (the dried ones)
Hi, I just planted like a lb of Skittles, hoping for a good harvest.
Borslaw Lol 😂😂😂😂
taste the rainbow 😆🌈
Ha!
Try planting M & Ms. The blue ones are hardest to grow though. Must have perfect soil.
@@donberry6079 you need a neutral soil with exactly 6.8 hours of sun everyday. Oh and make sure to play some slim shady to them before the sun sets
I love beans, but I'm Mexican lol. When I moved out of my mom's house I got excited to start buying canned" beans. I thought 'it's easy and quick'. My mother always thought canned beans were a waste of money. Then after months, I realized on how much we do consume beans, she was right lol. Now I buy the 25-pound bags of pinto beans from Costco. I personally love making black bean soup. But, I will eat them with just about everything or alone topped with fresh tomatoes, onions, and a dollop of sour cream. Now, I'll learn how to grow them myself, thank you.
I wish beans were readily available in bulk here, but I've never seen that in stores either in Germany where I grew up or in Austria where I live now.
Topped with tomatoes, onions and sour cream sounds so good!
Best book ever on cooking beans, even using it as flour for baked goods!
Country Beans by Rita Bingham
oh my gosh, thank you so much! I had no idea I could turn beans into flour! I have Celiac and cannot eat gluten flour and gluten free flour (the yummy kind) is quite expensive, so I will have to try turning beans into flour!
That's a great tip. Thanks so much, now I will hunt this book down for purchase.
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Thank you, just ordered this from my library.😊
@@levintry8812 Black bean brownies! Yum.
Levintry you can make flour out of dehydrated squash too.
We have been growing pinto beans, it just makes 1-2 big pots (we have a big family) but they taste so different from the store versions! They grow so easily, 3 months or so and they are ready. Slowly learning about more bean varieties.
I have two favorite beans that I don't think I could ever choose from.
Anasazi beans: These beans are gorgeous, their skin is white with dark and vivid red splotching. I adore them mostly for color, as I only have a few seeds and haven't gotten a harvest yet. They are quite interesting with their growth as well, as they climb and wind up other things. I would call them runner beans, but I do not know if that's accurate as I am not as familiar with beans.
Lima beans: I love Lima beans. There are many colors to them, I love the shape and I especially love their flavors and how well they do in soups. Even if they're just boiled and then coated with a bit of butter, they're amazing.
Adina Potato'Warrior Love butter beans!
I use beans in my garden as a survival staple. I grow for seasonal consumption as well as winter consumption. Nothing better than enjoying your own food you produced.
When I plant my beans, I put 2 or 3 in each hole. I do not thin them, amd have never been held back in production. Black beans dehydrated well and lasted through the winter. Green beans blanched and frozen lasted a long time as well. You said growing in bundles, right? What do you mean? How many plants are all together in your bundle?
Beans really are versatile. They absorb a ton of flavor and provide so many nutrients + fiber. Interesting analysis of having Americans incorporate them more into our food. In Latin American culture they really are huge and act as small purveyors of protein + other minerals. Good stuff to think about. Thanks for sharing so much of your knowledge!!
Nutrients? Do a Google on that.
I buy dry beans all the time and literally never had the thought that I could grow them instead! Seriously thank you for flipping that light on in my head haha! 🙏🏼
Favorite beans for me - probably a tossup between pinkeye purple hulls, and Crowder peas. My fella’s favorite for sure is Crowder peas, and we have had one kind of a time finding any of them in the store at all. I keep a little garden, so I found some place that could sell me some mail order Crowder peas for seed and planted some just in time to get a small crop before the freeze. I don’t know if we’ll get enough this year to make him one good bowl of them, but I grew them, and have more to plant come spring. If I do things correctly we won’t ever have to worry about where we’re going to find Crowder peas again.
My fella has said to me more than once, “Why in the world would anyone work that hard at keeping a garden when it’s so easy and inexpensive to just run down to the store?” What I usually tell him is that I enjoy it, like a hobby. But the larger truth is the idea lurking in the back of my mind, that we never know what can happen, to shut things down so that even if you could get to the store, they might not have what you’re looking for. Big storms, flooding, winter storms. Seems like winter storms have been the worst for that.
I’ve had a few disappointing garden years, and when I do have a disappointing garden year, I’ll bring that slender produce in and say, “if we were depending on this poor harvest to get us through the winter we would be in trouble.” I feel like I’m really learning a lot from you, Luke, someone young enough to be my grandson. I appreciate your videos. Thank you.
Yes, dried beans are an excellent idea.
Crowder peas sure are nice, I haven’t been able to find any at local stores recently so I might try to grow my own
I've been a vegetarian for the past 17 years, so beans are a staple in my diet! The important thing is to soak beans or any type of legume before eating them, even going so far as to sprout or ferment them and other grains. This reduces the amount of phytic acid in them and makes them more digestible!
I couldn't pick a favorite type of bean, but for people who live in the desert I'd recommend they try growing tepary beans. Tepary beans are extremely heat and drought tolerant, as well as being extremely healthy and easy to grow. They're such an underrated crop it's ridiculous.
I live in Florida and the ONLY time I buy canned beans is for hurricane preparedness due to a possible electrical outage. I am actually even looking into saving up to get a pressure canner so that I can preserve my own beans because a bag of dry beans from the dollar store (if you don't much care about organic) can give you several pints of cooked beans. Ounce per ounce the home canned beans are a fraction of the price of store canned beans. For $1 you can have 6 or more home canned pints vs 1 can of store bought.
We find that shelling beans in the evening while we watch tv is relaxing and satisfying. We grow Cherokee Trail of Tears beans because they make the best green beans we've ever eaten. We were happy to find that they dry nicely and taste great in recipes calling for black beans.
I triesd growing those for the first time this year and couldn't agree with you more. They were deliicious right off the vine. I haven't cooked the ones tha I dried yet, but am glad to hear that they are great for that, too.
Pinto beans with rice and tortillas. The greatest meal in the world!! I grew up on the stuff!
I practically live on dried beans as a main staple of my plant based diet. I grew a 100 ft row of Roman beans., harvested as green beans then let the rest dry. It was incredibly labor intensive to pick and especially to shuck 15 lbs of them. There are plans out there to convert a wood chipper into a mini combine to dehusk the beans.
I have found the number one crop for food security is winter squash like butternut. Easy to grow, pull them out of the garden, rinse, dry and store in a dark dry place that doesn't freeze. They will last about a year and they have all of the nutrients. Very little work.
they also put nitrogen into the soil!!!
The leaves take nitrogen out of the air and leave it in the soil.
Patrick Kirwan also the rizobium bacteria in the roots helps out
This is interesting to know :0
Being from the south dried pinto beans and blackened Peas have always been a staple. A meal can be peas, salad and cornbread
I always grow Navy, Great Northern, Light and Dark Kidney beans for dried beans. This year I added in a few more varieties. Love the great mix you can grow and dry for soups,
Thanks for the effort you put forth to help others! Keep it rocking!
This year while I was canning pinto beans from the store I got a silly hair and decided to plant one bean for fun. it was super satisfying to get that harvest! One bean 100 percent germination on that guy. and that one bean turned into about 50. I should have counted or weighed them. Next time.
The plant took up about as much space as a bush bean. the one thing I did not hear you mention is that with dried or soup beans
it is a MUST to let then dry on the plant!
Great video Thank you for your time
Good Gardening
@@howtomoo Thank you I did not know that.
I love the soft jazz! Can you please talk more about different types of dry beans to grow??
AKLADY87 grow purple hull in the south
Such an important video! The amount of shelf space dedicated to dry beans in the supermarket is pretty minimal!!
They taste so much better than canned too! Thanks Luke.
Dragon Tongue beans are my fav. Gorgeous white and purple beans and buttery flavor. I think peas belong on the underrated list too!
Red beans and rice with sausage is a fav. My favorite bean is black beans😊.
Kari Loughrey the south has never stopped appreciating beans. Especially being southern and growing up poor, red beans and rice with cornbread were eaten at least once a week.
Yes yes yes yes yes
When I lived in southern California, my Kentucky wonder beans did great. I picked fresh green beans off them for a while, and since I’m a bad gardener I forgot about them then came back to harvest some dry beans. A really multi purpose plant.
Runner beans are nice. They have beautiful flowers bees love and they grow in vines so you can save space in small gardens by growing up.
I'm with you! Not to mention the various amino acids we get in beans that we rarely get in other garden items.
My grandmother who was from New Mexico said they would put the dried pods and bean plants in a big paper bag or gunnie sack and step on it to separate the beans from the plant material.
She grew up on pinto beans so they grew a lot of them and saved time by doing this. The beans actually would be at the bottom due to their weight.
Hope this might help a few who are looking to harvest a lot of dried beans.
My favorite green beans are White Half Runners. My favorite dry beans are probably Kidney Beans. A close second would be Great White Northern Beans. We eat loads of beans in our diet. I live in far western NC. Beans are a very common staple in most pantries and in almost every garden here.
I didn't read the description and was prepared for the "superfood" of the moment to be recommended. But you clearly have thought this out because beans are exactly what you say they are!
beans are so versatile also-- bean burgers- soups --pastes--refried beans-- dips- and most people dont realize you can make Hummus out of any kind of beans and herbs and spices you like-- my daughter makes an awesome buffalo dip using white navy beans instead of chicken and it is amazing- thanks for the bean share-- blessings....
That sounds great!
What’s Buffalo dip?
Split pea soup is my favorite meal! Growing beans in my garden next year for sure!
How do you dry the peas? Is it the same way as beans? Good idea.
I love those too and wanted to know if any peas can be used as split peas if dried.
I'm 68 and have never planted or considered planting anything until this year. I want to be prepared for if/when SHTF and have been researching container gardening tubers. Light bulb moment with this piece of info. Brilliant idea I had not considered. Thank you so much for sharing!!! ❤❤❤
great music choice towards the end. I'm definitely adding pinto beans to my growing list this spring. thanks
I have several different type of beans and because I was raised old school I keep a variety of beans in my house...those are the beans I started seeding and they have taken off
Food security...something we all need to keep in mind these coming days. Love all types of dried beans. They can be prepared and eaten in so many different ways. Dry canning beans is nice for long storage.
I love growing dried beans for exactly the reason you listed- something to remind you of your garden in the deepest of Winter.
Never enough Cattle Panels to grow the amount and varieties of beans I would like to however. The 87-bean soup will have to wait.
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Reminds Me of shelling beans at my Grandparent's picnic table.
Awesome. Will definitely be growing beans. I remember my grandmother harvesting her beans by pulling the entire plant, then running her hands down to pull all the pods, then sifting the beans. Can’t wait to harvest mine.
I planted your red beans and they did really well. Thank you. I will definitely be ordering and planting lots more next year.
I love beans, I grew them for the first time last year and I think it will be a staple in my garden from now on, I grow kidney beans, black turtle, and Jacobs Cattle bean. I have pressure canned them too, so i have fast beans on the ready and I did dry some out too.
Don’t cut your hair! It looks great. I am shelling Kentucky Wonder beans and Scarlet Emperor beans. My grandfather used to grow these as part of his winter bean mixture. I wish I knew all the other varieties he grew, but I’m making my own mixture. I grew 1500 year old cave beans this year and they did great. Also purple pole and yellow wax pole. Can’t wait for next year to use what I learned this season. A lot of what I learned came from you. Thank you!
Thank you for all the information you provide. Two points of interest I didn’t hear you mention that you might want to share with your viewers if you do another video about dried beans ... 1. legumes are very heart healthy and 2. if beans give you gas, try eating small portions every day for a couple of weeks until your body adjusts to them or add ginger when cooking.
Canadian here, love your channel! You've helped me to have the confidence to grow my own food and the knowledge to actually keep it alive. As for beans, oh man.. beans are the best during the long cold winters, just fills you right up. I normally use red kidney beans (but i am open to all beans) in soups, stews, or veggie burritos!
My favorite beans are chickpeas, just because my son makes AMAZING hummus with them.
Awesome......would he/ you want to share the recipe?
@@pebblepod30 I wish. It's a secret recipe. I don't even know it and I'm his mom! LOL!!!
@@pebblepod30 Go to Refika's Kitchen on TH-cam, see if she has one, she has awesome Turkish and some "fusion-style," and USA "dupe" Fast Food Recipes. Plus, she's comical and fun!
@@lisasmith516 ok thx
@@Crazycatlady-g8m ok
Food prep is very smart, as it doesn’t take much to upset the apple cart.
This video should be more relevant today than everrrr, thank you for this message I enjoyed it!
I wished I’d payed more attention to my dads dry bean gardening. He would plant them in every nook and cranny, any spare space in his flower gardens. 🦋💜
We're they Bush or pole beans?
Did he trellis them?
How long does it take to dry from seed to drying? How would you prepare it to save for winter? Would you seal it in Mylar bags? What’s the best way to save these? Do they need any sterilization after?
I just put some cooked red kidney beans in my dehydrator as an experiment to see what would happen. I coated them in Sriracha sauce, smoked paprika, and a drop of liquid smoke. They turned out so good! Crunchy barbecue flavored beans. I forget what it's called, but they sell some kind of barbecue flavored bean snacks in the health food section at the store and they're ridiculously expensive. My recipe turned out just as good and it's way cheaper to make. If you don't have a dehydrator, I'm sure you could do it in the oven as well.
My very fav is Scarlet Runner beans. It's a bean i love for the flower to bring in Hummingbirds!! To eat and dry, and use to replant each spring.
In Brazil, beans and rice are the basis of our nutrition.
Helio Cezar de Oliveira Mayer isn't that nuts? 😏
And that's true for Central and South America as well.
Does that cause obesity?
Beans and rice, rice and beans... yum!
I love me some beans and rice and I'm Italian but grew up around mixed cultures in my hood, it was a good hood.
Here in SA beans are one of th most high priced foods compared to other food and not lots of people can afford,so if people start growing beans in their homes it will help as you saying food security.
They are a staple here in the south . cornbread beans taters onion don't get much better. You're Loved more than you know.
Hair does not matter as much as food. Coming from a hairstylist. Truly you have helped with my garden in Socal. Cyndi
What kind of varieties would you recommend?
Never throught of beans this way before!
Tho I do know they last very very long, my parents have bought more dried beans than canned since I was young! But now I see them in a slightly more informed light
I thinking my fave beans are lyma beans! :)
This is something we got into this season for the first time! We trialed 2 kinds of beans for Baker Creek this year and loved both. Good Mother Stallard is a beautiful one we trialed - I got over 6lbs of dried beans from 13 plants! Looking forward to making baked beans, white bean chili and soups with them this winter.
We also grew Fort Portal Jade, also lovely but not as happy with the high humidity we have in GA. Rabbits thought they were the tastiest plants too :) lovely green. jade-like beans once dried. Seeing these along with the purple hull cow peas in the pantry makes me smile every time I go in!
Just got my homestead bean packs from y’all two days ago. I am surprised how much I’m enjoying growing beans but they are a quick and easy to grow. I’m trying to grow 80% of our food.
Hi, Luke. Yes, I grow dry beans... My two favorites are Haudenosaunee Skunk Bean (aka Iroquois Skunk Bean) and Orca Bean (aka Yin-Yang bean). Best wishes from Kate in Olympia, WA - 9/20/2019.
I buy dry beans fairly regularly. I 1 pound packages of several different beans or legumes in my cart. When I get home, I open the packages up and dump them in a large bowl. Using my hands, I mix the beans up as well as they can mix. Then I put about 2 cups of dry beans into a zippered bag. I keep filling bags until I have emptied the bowl. Dry beans are very versatile. For the cold weather, I like to make mixed bean chili using one of these packages and add an onion that is chopped up. When the beans are tender, I add in my herbs and spices. My slow cooker is a big help. By dinner time, my chili is ready to eat with homemade cornbread.
Donna G did someone say cornbread? 😲😁
@@conradhomestead4518 I did say cornbread; but, what I didn't say is it has a secret ingredient.
Try anasazi beans. Beside being very tasty bean similar to pinto beans. It's a very pretty bean. And has a interesting past story. Believed to have gone extinct centuries if not a millennia ago. Found in a cave and brought back
Shane, I too love those beans...any tips on where I can find seed for next year? Organic of course.
@@blookieblay I know a friend of mine googled anasazi bean seeds and had great luck. I planted the beans from the store and grew them that way.
One of the first things that I grew in my new raised beds was pinto beans. They were very easy to grow and I was able to store them for the next season. I am working on trying to grow lentils and chickpeas as well. Not much success so far but I am working on it.
I love dry beans. They are so easy to keep and prepare. Im actually cooking son chickpeas for the week rn.
A lot less sodium to use dry vs canned. It’s the primary use for my instant pot.
Yes, I love how much quicker it is with an instant pot. Though a slow cooker also does well.
Luke thank you, never really thought about dried beans from a garden. I'm have gained a lot of information from your channel. We do a 7 bean soup and white beans and ham. Again thank you, take care and best wishes
Pinto beans are very nice. I have a variety of red and brown beans that have cross bred. They grow so fast you can almost see them do it. They produce great crops, and they grow in the winter right up to the frosty times. Thanks for this video, you are so right. Beans are a great and easy crop which could save your life.
Sakes, grow your hair. You look great! Thanks for the info. I've never grown beans for drying and it looks so easy!
I have eaten dried beans all my life. Love them all!
Great advice! Thanks for all you do.
My husband loves white/navy/great northern beans. I have been canning all sorts of beans. The canning makes them creamy and delicious.
I love hummus but it can be so expensive. I'm going to try growing my own chick peas. Thanks for the awesome advice.
Last year I grew pinto beans. This year I grew Lima beans. ♥️ growing beans and letting them naturally dry. Also have seeds for next year. 👍🏾🙂 Fav beans to grow: Scarlet Runners. The beans are like beautiful jewels.
I love making 18 beans and peas soup. I use smoked Turkey meat instead of the ham. Thank you for the info.
Lora Robinson yummy , my favorite
I planted beans for the first time this year because I came across some unique pink beans called "Princess Rose" from a local seed company. Every single one germinated in-ground, and with some mulch, they all powered through a drought (with water restrictions, no less). I now have fresh beans every few days, and hopefully some dry beans at the end of the season. For anyone not excited about beans I highly suggest trying a rare or interesting variety to get yourself looking forward to the harvest.
My favorite bean is Fort Portal Jade, a small round bean that dries a pretty blue-green. I grow a ton of cow peas each year. I'm looking at growing succotash beans, yardlong beans, and Cherokee Trail of Tears next year.
Myxinaut IX , hi can you please tell me where you get your beans from?
@@dianapiccoli4103 Baker Creek a few years ago, but it looks like they're not in stock now. I've noticed that the Fort Portal Jade tends to come and go. You could try Etsy and Ebay for seeds. My own supply is short currently, otherwise I'd send you some.
Myxinaut IX , that is so kind of you even for the thought. Thanks for the reply!
Each appartment, house has to be mandated to grow food for sustainable development for communities and to evolve into the future.
Love Lima Beans! Especially with ham and ham bones, slow cooked 😉😁
I like to eat peas and beans raw, and ate the first few lima beans raw. Then I read somewhere uncooked they have the most cyanide of all beans. Then I realized that yes, I was having stomach issues after eating them.
Amen! 😋
Great Northern Bean is my favorite thus far
Boldly Grow Homestead ditto
Oak trees. The caloric content is the reeason the east coast used to be oak Savannas. Accorns only need to be soaked and then can be eaten.
Angelo Barker l did not know you can eat acorns, pleas tell me how from beginning to end
@@minihaha3940 you have to soak them to remove the tanin. Then you can eat them a variety of ways. Also easy to preserve. The natives on the east coast used them as a food source.
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Angelo Barker thank you so much. I use to collect buckets of them and feed to the critters in the winter. I never knew l could eat them also. Thanks l will try them. Thanks for your reply
We love beans in our house, but I never even thought to grow them. I do buy dried. Our favorite is black beans.
Awesome video my family grew up on beans I still love them !!! You should do a video on types of beans that are good for drying !!
It's the first thing I plant in Spring & I plant a variety: a few bushes of bush beans for green beans and at least two kinds of pole beans for dry beans. I love preparing them in this way: Soak them overnight, rinse & cover with water boiling them until tender then drain, add olive oil, garlic, salt & coarsely ground black pepper, fresh or dried thyme & a good squeeze of lemon juice. Fry them until fragrant & serve hot with fresh bread & a salad. Simple but utterly delicious!
I love making pinto bean soup topped with cheese onions cilantro and a dab of sour cream.
Yes!!! Legumes are the bomb!!! My favourites are black beans and chickpeas. Nothing beats a spicy black bean burger topped with hummus, lettuce, tomato and red onion. Thanks for spreading the awareness!
Ohh yes, that sounds delicious!
Under appreciated unless you are vegan. As a vegan I eat LOADS of them. They are my main source of protein.
And can taste very good.
True! I never knew how wonderful chickpeas & soy beans are, before I went vegan. Tofu, tempeh, soy milk, hummus, falafel etc. Great stuff!
>.> you have never been to a korean household. My rice! My family puts every kind of bean in there cause its "healthy and i need it". Lima beans are the worst. They disintegrate into the rice.
Then my family eats bean encrusted rice cakes. I do like red bean paste tho.
I eat every form of soybean. Natto. Tofu. Fermented soybean paste. except fried tofu skins. Its too sweet for me.
@@BatmanPwnage Yeah right, I was talking about the western diet (west europe (germany in my case) / USA). In Asia & South America it's different (propably one of the reasons, why you have lower heart attack & cancer rates^^).
I plan to make some korean oder japanese candy with red bean paste, I love the idea!
You said, hence my search to grow my own.
My family used dried beans during the depression to survive. Love them!
My family ate dried beans during the recession a lot, my father (our only source of income at the time) worked at one of the banks that didn't survive the recession, so although we weren't at risk of starving there definitely was some financial difficulties.
I love Pinto beans and blackeye peas myself. I keep loads of it stashed in my pantry.
I use dry beans all the time in my cooking but have never grown them. Next summer for sure. Thanks.
I grew red beans to make succotash. I just need a bacon plant to make my life complete.
My fave is Lima’s.
I loaded all the plants on my kitchen table and the kids loved helping me open the pods to save..super fun!
Love your videos! Thanks for all the information, wish there was someone closers here to help me like you do!
Started my garden a year ago in the winter. I grew tons of squash, watermelon, tomatoes, cucumbers but not beans, peas and potatoes. I will this year. I’m honored to grow radish, lettuce broccoli in the winter time
Beans, beans.
The magical fruit.
The more you eat, the more you toot.
The more you toot the better you feel, so eat some beans with every meal.
That's a popular misconception. Most of the people don't toot at all when eating beans, and almost all of them won't have flatulances at all after some days/weeks of eating beans regularly.
@@magischepflanzen758 I dare you to have a large bowl of borlotti or salugio beans. If you don't blow your blankets off the first night, I'll send you a whoopee cushion. I consider these beans to be dangerous weapons.
@@magischepflanzen758 this one-tin-a-day-for-25-years-chilli-bean-eater agrees!
More you toot, better you feel. Beans, beans, every meal
Haha - I'm just hulling today's harvest of borlotti beans, cranberry beans and fava beans as I'm watching this! I completely agree with you. I don't let them dry though; I let them grow until they're full-size but the pods are still fresh. Then I hull and freeze them in bags. It's great to have beans I can spontaneously use without having to plan ahead and remember to soak them overnight. The ones I'm hulling right now are for a soup for dinner, with carrots, celery, potatoes, leek, parsley root and lovage, all from the garden. :)
That's great if you have dependable electricity.
@@jelatinosa We had a power outage last year during a very violent storm, but it only lasted about 15 minutes or so. We're lucky that outages are a very rare (and normally very short) occurrence here in Germany.
@@beautyforashes2230 where I live, Puerto Rico, we can have outages that last days, and these have no real cause. After hurricane Maria hit us, we didn't have power for months because our electric grid is so old and crummy throughout the island. We get short power outages often that can last from a a few minutes or hours, up to a couple days.
@@jelatinosa Oh wow, that's so awful! I'm sorry to hear that. Do places like hospitals, where power is a question of life or death, at least have an emergency generator?