"Robert" wrote in message
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"Gill Matthews" wrote in message
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: "shazzbat" wrote in message
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: We went to the allotment today and it's all lying on the ground,
canes,
: beans the lot. So we brought home the beans, shucked them, and now
we've
: got a washing up bowl full of beans. We haven't let them go long
enough
to
: use as beans rather than pods before, what now? I assume the purplish
: outer skin is to go, but that's going to be a huge fiddly operation,
how
: best to remove it? will it come away any easier when dried or frozen?
:
: TIA
:
: Steve
:
: The purplish outer skin can be left on for dishes of a chilli con carne,
5
: bean salad etc. type. I would also leave the skin on if you were
thinking
: of making bean curds and remove it only at a later filtering stage.
:
: Gill M

Use them as they are for next year's seeds

Depends what they were and what was being grown round about. If they were
F1 hybrids you would probably get more variability than may be desirable.

Gill M