We're growing these for the first time this year, and we've got lots of
striking red-streaked pods, and we want to harvest the beans for use later
in the year, as opposed to using the complete pods at an earlier stage. At
what point do we pick them?

TIA

Steve

Steve wrote
We're growing these for the first time this year, and we've got lots of
striking red-streaked pods, and we want to harvest the beans for use
later in the year, as opposed to using the complete pods at an earlier
stage. At what point do we pick them?

When we have grown beans for their seeds we have simply left them all until
the end of the season and collected them then.

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Regards
Bob H

On Tue, 15 Aug 2006 21:37:36 +0100, "shazzbat"
wrote:

We're growing these for the first time this year, and we've got lots of
striking red-streaked pods, and we want to harvest the beans for use later
in the year, as opposed to using the complete pods at an earlier stage. At
what point do we pick them?

Once the pods begin to turn brown, but before they split open! If you
pick them too soon the beans themselves will not have dried off and
will not keep so well. Of course you can cook and eat the loose beans
fresh, when they will take less cooking time.

Pam in Bristol