"Kathy McIntosh" wrote in
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What's the best way to dry these for use over winter? On the plant or
take off, shell and lay out?
TIA

Answer is to leave them on pod until the pod goes leathery then harvest
them and put them to dry in ONE layer on a tray to dry for a few days, then
harvest some more, and moving the first batch to another more layered tray,
and so on, until they are all dry(maybe Nov. until you have them all)
The beans now should all look shiny, like pottery.
Take out any that are "wrinkled" because they contain some mould/yeast.(and
you dont want it)

Finaly you store the resulted beans, if they have been dried properly they
will last you till your next harvest, or you can use as seed.

How much wind can we take?

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