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Old 17-07-2011, 04:35 PM posted to rec.gardens.edible
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David Hare-Scott wrote:
Grub wrote:
How do tell when they are ready? Three times now I've picked some and
one had nothing in it at all and the others had very tiny beans that
had obviously only started to grow


The pods have to be big and fat, you should be able to feel the beans
inside.


can you see them through the pod
if the sun is behind the pod?


songbird