Harvesting Our Heirloom Pinto Beans.
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- We are back in the garden and it's time to harvest our pinto beans.
This year we grew an heirloom variety from Baker Creek Seed Company called Bolita. We are very happy with the way they did even though early on we thought they were going to be a failure.
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Not sure if someone has already suggested this, but put your shelled beans in a pillow case and beat them on a hard surface. This will separate the beans from the shells. Pour the pillowcase contents into a shallow basket and give it a little shaky tap. You can pick the big leftover shells off the top (beans will settle to the bottom of the basket). Little pieces of shell will be left in with your beans. Take a blow dryer and blow them out, while shaking the basket. Beans will stay in the basket and shells will blow away. I think this is called winnowing or something of the sort. Takes minutes, not hours!
I know this comment is old, but I just ran across this video and I have a tip for you when harvesting beans and such. Tie rope to the handles of a bucket and wear it around your neck so it lays against our chest. then just drop the beans or whatever in the bucket and you don't have to stop and look to see where the bucket on the ground is or move the bucket with you. We do this with berries! It's so much easier to harvest and quicker, too!
Growing your own food is like printing your own money. I will be growing these next year, thanks for the info.
You can grow pinto beans from those that you buy in the store. You probably get a pound of beans for $1.95 vs a seed packet.
All done for the day, looks like we have about 2000lbs of beans in this 5 gallon bucket... Fun video thanks 👍
You can put the dried pods in a pillow case and hit them against the ground (cement) and they will crack open and separate and all the beans fall to the bottom because they're heavy. Grab off the broken pods, blow off the chaff with a hairdryer and you're done! (Put the jars in the deep freeze overnight in case of tiny critters)
Nice Harvest beans. You got 750 lb and another 250 lb in the garden, at $500 a pound you killed it brother..!!
I planted pinto beans this year. Seed from a 2 lb bag from wally world
After we ate half of them i broadcasted some in a portion of my garden i wasn't using
Never weeded or watered and got a suprising harvest of about 8times what i planted. Then later i put out another half pound or so and harvested them as well. Next year i think i will try to get 2 plantings and try for double season .i too am in MO about 40 miles from you. Lebanon
I bet it would be fun to just sit around your picnic table with the family shucking the beans and and catching up on good old times. Great harvest.
It sure would be! 😉
2-3k lbs expected, 7.5 lbs actual. pull those reigns in brother.
Yeah yeah nevermind
Haha funny
Try the black beans again. We grew them up here in Nebraska on our Farmstead for the past 8 yrs and have done really well. Also, Mother Stalwardt(sp?) A red & white speckled bean does really well too and makes a great soup or baking bean. Both from Bakers Creek! They are deceptive in quantities.
Nice! And fall is the perfect time for chili!!!
Mmm....chili! Good thing we also had a great tomato harvest!
You know watching Kevin when he's 'calculating or estimating' the quantity of a harvest or the expected yield from a row of plants. It's really not hard to 'get' that he spent the majority of his 9 - 5 Career as a Salesman.😂😂
I was tricked with that 200 pg 😂😂
I love how quickly pinto beans grow and they're so high in protein. About 9 grams per half cup. Cooked yields one cup.
Hi Kevin, my grandmother used to grow great northern white beans for bean soup. My grandfather would lay all of them on a screen and dry them in the sun. So much work in a garden but so satisfying. Love your videos that you and Sarah make and I don't even homestead or garden. The high desert in Nevada isn't such a good place to raise much. Some do and do quite well with certain foods but I'm getting up there in years and it's too hot for me.
If you have barn space or a garage...pull them up and hang them in there and mid winter you can spend you less busy time shuck them. Even easier is to ie the pods up in a pillowcase and run it in the dryer on air only, it goes a long way to get hulls off.
I always thought Bolitas were a different variety than Pintos. To me Bolitas have better flavor, and they usually sell for a higher price - when you can find them! You've got some great beans there!!!
Pintos are one of my favorites since I grew up on them, along with snap beans. I'm hoping no pests to worry about. Great harvest! Blessings.
We didn't have any big problems with pests. The Japanese beetles did munch on them a bit while they were invading our property here. We attempted to keep them at bay with traps and Neem oil, but we're not sure how much that all helped. We had other plants that the Japanese beetles preferred, sadly. With as well as the pintos did, it doesn't seem like they were very affected by the beetles.
Those are nice! What’s nice is if you planted double or triple the amount next year you could have a really good amount for winter!
Very nice harvest!!
I love dry beans cooked. BETTER YET!!! picke and cook them before they dry. FRESH pinto beans are even better. I know. is sounds impossible but yes they are better when cooked fresh. Just ad some pork (bacon or ham hocks).
I wondered about that . Good to know
We had to pick our haricot beans green because frost arrived here in Manitoba,Canada. They are now drying in the greenhouse. We got one five gallon pail of beans with pods on.
Well, good thing you saved them all from the frost! Congrats on your bucket of beans!
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Wow! That is so awesome! I might be behind the times, but I think Walker Texas Ranger is the best show ever. Kevin
$35 worth of beans, but the best part is you know how they have been grown, priceless
Beautiful batch of beans! Awesome job! Bolita means "little ball" in Spanish.
I grow pintos and kidney beans. Both do really well and very low maintenance.
Kevin This is a late post , if you see this I hope it helps but I saw a lady use an old washer hand ringer too shell her peas in no time. bet it would work on bean and bet you would still have time for Walker Texas Ranger, well, there's always time for that !
love that...had wondered about growing beans for dried beans...so pintos are on our list!
This is an awesome growth! Thanx for the growth.
I'm growing pinto beans this year!!! I hope I get a good harvest like you did! Woohoo!
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We've done pinto beans for several yrs now and all we do is plant 'em and leave them alone like you did and they do really well. I also experimented with some dry beans from the store ( kidney, great northern and navy) and they actually sprouted and grew really well. So theres a thought if you ever want to try it.
Great to know! Thanks!
Just put the dried beans in a sack.
Beat on ground and the beans and shell separate.
Much easier and quicker than shelling.
You always make me smile
Lots of seeds saved for next year. Great info! Thanks for sharing with us.
We need to resist eating them all. Lol!
I love how you tell it like it is! Now i want to try this next year.
Ah, that's 3000 lbs of back breakin' work! Never hurts to make yourself believe in more!
Lol!
I've never grown beans. That looks awesome.
We hadn't either. We were so surprised at how easy they were, and productive!
Hay Kevin, When I was growing, I used to look at the back of the packs and they would tell what regions that they grew best in. I don't know if they still do that but I always found that helpful in determining which ones to get. Sometimes, however, I would get ones that it suggested not to because I loved them and felt that extra time was worth it. I managed to grow some delicious strawberries that year but I worked hard for every delicious one. My biggest problem with veggies and fruits were always keeping those rascally rabbits and moles away. ARRGGGG! Glad to see those Pinto Beans were a low maintenance success. That makes them a winner for next year also. Cheers!
Thanks, Casey1pj! A lot of planning goes into our garden, which includes determining the varieties of seeds to buy. The planning is almost as fun as the growing! We mostly grow "tried and true" varieties that will have good chances for success but like you we occasionally try something that we know might not work (like globe artichokes which failed).~Sarah
Hehe. Sarah might just have a chance to break all the rules when you guys get the greenhouse finished. Can't wait to see it in action. I know you guys will be rocking that thing with some awesome ingenuity. Best wishes.
I "encase " [below, above and all sides ] my garden in 1/2 inch hard wire or chicken / poultry netting.
It's still a good result for your bean harvest. I'll bet Sarah has a lot of good recipes for the beans.
awesome
We are growing Quincy Pinto Beans this year and are so excited to try them.
I just found tour channel and subscribed. I have just forayed into dried bean growing with yinyang or pea beans and gigantees. And am planning on expanding next year. Great video.
First off, I love the video. Most of my gardening is “experimental”. It’s just a process of learning. Therefore, I have a question. How many pinto beans did you plant and what was your final total yield? Thanks again for the info.
hows that sound?
I had a few lima beans this year and the yield was equal to the seeds planted LOL. Was going to try black beans next year because I am always getting them from the store.
We did not have good luck with lima beans this year either.
Nice video. Consider doing a video on actual planting of all the veg for this spring. Thanks.
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I have no clue what mine are but i recently planted a few squares (small ones) of pinto beans the spotted ones and they are growing!And i planted more to fill in some void spots today..i hope they dotn go to crazy lol
Well, unemployed, so I had to count how many pinto beans are in a cup of beans. I am proud to announce that there are approximately 660 pinto beans in a cup of them. 2 cups equals a pound of beans, making a pound = 1320 beans. And, 7.5 pounds of beans would equal approximately 9,900 beans. So actually his subconscious mind may have detected the number of beans, around 10,000 when he blurted out the number. There you go! Thank you for making this video, Thank you for sharing. Today is July 6th, 2023. Springfield, Ohio.
Try lots of different beans! So nourishing and easy to can for instant meals!
Great video. I do dry beans, but have trouble getting harvest rate up.
Hopefully our success wasn't a fluke. Lol!
I've always wanted to try growing pintos. But never had the opportunity to.
Awesome video like always great information👍 I'm looking forward to next season myself I'm going to do a Lenape Style Garden, on a small scale, beans will be one of the crops. Keep up the good work bro I gave it a like and a share👍3 dollar investment + a little time = $35..... that's good math in my book👍
Nice! We hope you do some videos on it. We don't know much about it but did some quick searching on the internet. We'd love to learn from you!
Would that be the three sisters method? Corn,beans and squash?
awesome Harvest of your Heirloom Pinto Beans !! considering you said you've not done much to them !!
Couldn't have been easier!
I love menards
Hi, thanks for the video! Just wondering if you remember about how many plants you grew? I'm looking to try to gauge about how much I should think about planting.
I don't remember how many plants exactly but it was a 20 feet row. I THINK they were every 6 inches so 40 plants? Hope this helps! -- Kevin
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Hmmm I’ve never planted pinto beans. Thinking it’s going on my ‘to plant list’ 👍🏻
We were pleasantly surprised how well they did. The variety we planted was the Bolita Bean. Here is a link from Baker Creek. www.rareseeds.com/bolita-bean/
I was so surprised to see him holding a bucket of beans and exclaiming that there was 2-3,000 pounds of beans in the bucket! Really? He looks like he would be happy pressing about 350 pounds, bench weight, but 2000 pounds with one hand??? I highly recommend those of you who grow beans to freeze them for a few days before putting them into jars to prevent maturation of insect eggs that might be on the beans.
Im a kid and im trying to grow a bean plant
....gotta trade the cow .... lol
I've been growing dry beans for five years. I am no expert but i do harvest a good amount. This year I grew.. bird egg blue which is a bush variety and makes blue seeds with white speckles....purple florelle which is a pole variety and is a round beautiful lilac colored bean with dark purple swirls it is a heavy yielder...pink tip cornfield which is also a pole variety and bears pinkish brownish beans which are big and fat and also an Italian borlotto bean called.. flambo which is a bush variety and is maroon and white swirled. I use old boxsprings in the garden for the pole varieties to grow on and also a huge old parrot cage I got off of Craigslist for free!! I painted it a bright blue and is perfect for pole beans lol. If you want to find yourself some really cool beans check out this website...abeancollectorswindow.com.. the owner..Russ Crow breeds and raises dozens and dozens of beautiful beans. That is where i found the blue and purple ones I've been growing. He is a super cool guy and is very knowledgeable in the world of dry beans. You got a great harvest and I wish you luck for a bigger one next year! Nothing like crunching dry bean pods when the snowflakes are flying. I love it! Oh and I've discovered if you save seeds from your biggest pods to plant next year, your plants will make bigger and bigger pods. This year I only kept seeds from pods that had 7 of more inside them. I had some that had 10!! Cannot wait to see what those suckers do next year!
Try getting an old portable garage frame and growing your pole beans on the poles of the portable garage frame, the plants grow very well and the bean pods all hang down inside so you can easily pick the beans when ready.
Out of curiosity, what was the name of the black bean that didn't do well? I tried trail of tears as a late summer/ autumn crop, and it didn't do very well here in NY zone 6a. I'm sure it will do well as a spring/summer crop, but I'm curious which ones people have success with.
How long was y’all’s Rows Of beans that you grew
Thanks for the video. How do you store long term after putting in freezer for 3 days. Thanks
I harvested my beans too early when they were green. If I store them or dry them will they mature into normal pinto beans? If not is there something I can do not to waste my harvest?
How many plants did you have ?
Are these Pole or Bush? They look somewhere in between....but wondered what the package said they were. I can't get down to harvest bush beans, but these look to be taller than that.
How long was the row of beans and how many rows did you plant?
How big of a row did you do to grow that much
How long were your rows? We're trying to calculate yield based on plants. Thank you.
How many plants was that from?
Only 2,993 pounds off from the estimation.
Do you know how many foot row you planted?
I'm interested in how many plants you harvested from...I wanted grow them this year and need a baseline?
I'm looking for the old southern, light colored, creamy pinto beans! Not the refried pinto bean! You can't find them! I'm not sure what they called them! Does anyone have any information??
Maybe Navy Beans
Diane , no but thats the kind i want too! my momma was born during the dust bowl era in oklahoma. and she said those beans saved a many a okie. God bless her (rip) and as i child we had pinto beans with supper EVERY night. and i still love em!!! and her :)
You mean the white lima "butter bean" kind?
Great video. Do you do other dried vegetables such as peas?
How many square feet of garden per pound?
This is my first year to grow pintos. I only planted 28 plants to see how it goes.
How was your crop.? How much did you get?
@@hopehope9301 not too bad, probably 5 lbs of dry beans.
@@tinkernaut8736 great. I thought that 3 lb would good even. You had better results. I plant to grow pinto beans next year.
Out of how many plants?
If farting REALLY is healthy, your family will live forever! I hope my pintos and red beans do as well!
I want to tell you all something if you pick those pinto beans when they're fresh fat and the vine is green and full and you take those beans out of there they make the most delicious refried beans really they do you have to cook them immediately because they will start Sprout even if you leave them just in the colander overnight so try that with a single batch I do that here and I buy a lot of them and then I cook them free some because I don't know that I could do it without if I just throws the bean I don't think that would work it is fresh and tender but not that tender
I've always had trouble with black beans.
Weird
A friend of mine just a couple of miles away grows great black beans. *Sigh* Maybe she and I can just trade! 😊
How many plants did you sow? Im interested!
Look if it was 3k beans you wouldnt have carried that bucket it would have been to heavy lol . Nice harvest though.
We better hope farmers keep growing pinto beans commercially or we are going to be hurting. In my house 7 pounds of pinto beans are not going to last long.
Do you use an inoculant on your beans and peas?
what was your method to dry the beans??
thanks
2-3k pounds = Kevin math!
A pint is a pound the world around. I think you have 8 1/2 to 9 lbs there already eheheheh.... How many rows of beans was that?
Did those set any nitrogen nodules
Do your girls like to garden. And take care of the animals with you?
They do to some degree. Both girls attend public school during the week, then we all sell at the farmers market on Saturday and spend most of Sunday at church having "family time." They have certain chores that they help with and when they have extra time I have them help in the garden and with canning, etc. They are both very good students and we expect them to take their education very seriously. Our oldest daughter Grace just started high school and is becoming more active there. We think they have a good balance of helping us and having the time they need for school and fun. 😊
Ok, so enough to feed you on emergency rations for a coupe weeks, not much of a yield. How do you justify that?
It was our first year growing pinto beans. Better some than none. Each year we learn more and more about how much to grow. How much do you grow?
2 or 3 lbs maaybe
2 to 3 thousand pounds
Nice video but why does that guy say 2000 and 3000 pounds? that's just weird, I don't think he knows his poundage and scales if that was two thousand pounds worth of beans he couldn't pick them up, 2000 lb of pretty heavy that's as much as a car weighs!!! LOL
I would can them. Pinto beans as they get older will get harder and harder and after about 10 months, no matter how long you boil them they will still be hard. Soak over night and can them and you are good for a couple of years and a quick meal.
Lost interest at 2-3 thousand pounds. Probably exaggerate or make up future info.
How many plants did you have?