wes..do you know

[Linda]

.. what a shell bean is yet???

[Guest Guest]

uh huh!

 

 

Shell-Shocked Over Shell Beans

 

Q. I recently ran across a recipe for a fall vegetable dish that included "shell beans." Could you please tell me what they are?

 

A. Shell beans, or "shellouts," are other names for cranberry beans. Cranberry beans, not the most common beans in the world, are cream colored with red streaks, kidney shaped, and are available fresh or dried.

 

 

Cranberry Beans

Medium ovals; creamy background with burungy highlights.

 

Uses: Most often used in Italian bean dishes and soups.

Photo: http://www.schweitzer.sk.ca/TypeSamples/cranberryT.htm

 

Nutritional information http://www.orientresources.biz/nutbean.htm

 

Of course California has their own version.. shrug http://www.beanbag.net/bc1.html

 

Cranberry beans (known also as Speckled Cranberry and Horticultural Pole)

US Bean Standards http://www.usda.gov/gipsa/reference-librar...dards/beans.htm

 

To purchase heirloom beans for planting http://www.foxhollowseed.com/Vegetables/BeanShell.htm

 

 

[Linda]

was just checking ... you will know for sure in a couple of days.

 

[Guest Guest]

Quote:

.. what a shell bean is yet???

"Shellies" as we call them are beans that you normally eat in the shell or pod but you pop the beans out and dry them before you cook them.

[Guest Guest]

like pea pods (oriental peas), string beans?

 

 

[Guest Guest]

I know what shell beans are now...even have some! Thank you Theyd!

 

They are very pretty! sort of too pretty to eat. I am going to attempt to grow them this spring. In the mean time I am going to do a bit more research on them and see if I can get them here. Perhaps the health food store might carry them. I can't wait to try them.

[Linda]

you are welcome Wes, they are really good, one of my favorite beans.

[Guest Guest]

So it was not a question.... like.... What are shell beans? oh I get it, you had the answer already. ok.

 

 

[Guest Guest]

Joan,

 

It was a question... I had never heard of shell beans.. I had to go look them up, and yesterday I got some in the mail... Theyd sent them to me. NOW I know what they look like. I am going on a hunt to find them, cook them and taste them. Then I can answer her original question in another thread.

 

I will take the ones she sent me and see if they will grow. I will have to do some research to see how to grow them though. If they are viney I have the perfect fence to grow them on! My two biggest problems is gophers and ground squirrls!

[Linda]

they grow just like a bush bean. put you don't pick them till the plant dies and the pods dry. sometimes the pod wil dry and the beans will pop out. It takes them a few days longer to ripen then green beans. you cook them just like you would pinto beans.

 

i didn't know you had to take the strings out of the string beans. i just ate it all.

[Guest Guest]

so where is the "Everything you ever needed to know about Beans" link?

[gardnmom]

Quote:

My two biggest problems is gophers and ground squirrls!

Have you noticed that most animals that will eat your vegetables don't like the peppers?
I use the crushed red peppers to make a tea, (pour boiling water over 2 tablespoons of the crushed red pepper and steep for 6 min) then strain it and put the strained liquid in a spray bottle fill it on up with water and spray the plants you don't want them to eat. works for me.

[JuliaunasNana]

Thank you, Lois. My darling chickens came up on my porch today while I was sleeping (shift work) and ate every cotton picking one of my seedlings from the herbs I'd planted in a pot by the door. I could just wring their adorable little necks! I'm going to spray the next batch of plants down with red pepper tea every day. Those chickens better start laying soon, cuz until they start earning their keep, they are getting mighty close to becoming Dutch Oven supper...

( roar ) -chx