If you grow beans for drying in the garden, harvest time is here. Dried beans are ready for harvest as soon as the pods turn completely dry and begin to crack open. After the dried pods are harvested, ...

Question: In our family garden we have grown many types of beans. For the first time this year we’re growing beans that can be dried for long-term storage. We would appreciate any information you can ...

Oh beans! Dry beans, that is. What's a dry bean? It's any bean that is allowed to develop to full maturity. It could be the same beans initially planted for harvest as tender green beans; however, for ...

Green beans are also known as snap beans because of the sound they make when a fresh pod is broken in half. Shelling beans are snap beans that are grown past the fresh pod stage until a large seed or ...

Jennifer K. of Windsor asks: I am growing a few varieties of shelling beans but I’m not sure how to dry them. Can you help me out? Here’s a couple of ways to dry beans for storage. First, and most ...

Readers of this column could argue that the writer is full of beans. Well, it is true. I am not only full of beans but so is our pantry. These are dried shell beans which I’ve been harvesting over the ...

With most of the small grains harvested in the greater Red River Valley, farmers are turning their attention to row crops, as potatoes and sugar beets begin to be dug and lifted. Bud Vance, agronomist ...