As of mid-October, the dry bean harvest is complete except for cycling a few jars through the freezer in the hopes of killing off any jarred vermin. This years yield - influenced by plenty of water, but lacking a little on warmth, and then having way too much wet and humidity near drying time - gave us an adequate amount of beans (since I planted so d-- many), but could have been a vastly superior yield if not for the conditions mentioned above. Bottom line, we have enough beans...
The Yield
- Kidney 13 pounds
- Brown 12 pounds
- Black 8 pounds (they suffered the most from the wet conditions
- Pinto 4 pounds(not as many planted and the deer ate them)
- Spotted 1 pound + (our seed that crossed)
Of course I did not write down (anywhere that I can locate) the total amount from last year. But looking at the Harvest photos from last year I can see that we had 8 more pounds red beans, 4 pounds more brown, 8 pounds more black, 4 pounds more pinto and four pounds more white. There seems to have been a 76 pound bean harvest in 2008. We seem to have used about 28 pounds of beans last year. This is what is left from last years bean crop:
- Kidney 4 pounds
- Brown 12 pounds
- Black 8 pounds
- Pinto 12 pounds
- Great Northern 8 pounds
- Soldier 6 pounds
We now have somewhere between 80 and 90 pounds of dry beans. Guess we need to eat more beans - less meat. Helps the planet, you know....
