This summer, in a fit of excitement for summer veggies, I sowed roughly 45 climbing beans in the varieties Epicure and Blue Lake. Each and every one of the seedlings were transplanted along our back fence and began to curl their way up the support in a matter of days, it was something akin to 'Jack and the Beanstalk' (but alas, with no giants or golden goose eggs). Before we knew it, we were inundated with a bounty of green beans that we couldn't alone consume. We gave them away, we pickled them, we ate bean stir-fry several lunches in a row. So after a few harvests, enough was enough, we left the beans there to dry until the end of the season.
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