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Plans for a Homemade Butter Bean Sheller
DavesGarden.com ^
| July 24, 2010
| Terry Lea of Dave's Garden
Posted on 08/31/2011 9:14:40 PM PDT by Yosemitest
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This is a useful tool, but it requires a skilled builder.
To: Yosemitest
How many butter beans do you plan to eat?!
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posted on
08/31/2011 9:17:11 PM PDT
by
mylife
(OPINIONS ~ $ 1.00 HALFBAKED ~ 50c)
To: mylife
I seen one of them, thar contraptions down at the farmers market. You could use it for free when you bought yer fresh butter beans.
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posted on
08/31/2011 9:19:51 PM PDT
by
smokingfrog
( sleep with one eye open ( <o> ---)
To: smokingfrog
They gots a bean shucker down there?
And I cant find a decent tomato.
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posted on
08/31/2011 9:22:38 PM PDT
by
mylife
(OPINIONS ~ $ 1.00 HALFBAKED ~ 50c)
To: mylife
With aging parents and hard times coming, it's how many beans do you plan to put up.
150 quarts a year is about right.
Do you know how many hours of hand shelling that is?
TOO many.
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posted on
08/31/2011 9:25:13 PM PDT
by
Yosemitest
(It's simple, fight or die.)
To: Yosemitest
Ive never done butter beans.
I have snapped hundreds of bushels of green beans and shucked hundreds of bushels of corn.
That’s a lot of snapping and shuckin!
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posted on
08/31/2011 9:37:32 PM PDT
by
mylife
(OPINIONS ~ $ 1.00 HALFBAKED ~ 50c)
To: Yosemitest
Are butter beans what Americans call lima beans?
I luv lima beans. And they are very, very good for you.
I was wonderin why my blue lake pole beans weren’t doing so well this year.
Until the night I was sittin on my porch, heard a thrashin sound over there, and saw the two doe munching down on them like there was no tomorrow!
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posted on
08/31/2011 9:44:20 PM PDT
by
djf
(One of the few FReepers who NEVER clicked the "dead weasel" thread!! But may not last much longer...)
To: Yosemitest
Ferget it! I answered my own question!
Those don’t look like lima beans.
I was thinking about how the British call lima beans “broad beans”.
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posted on
08/31/2011 9:50:48 PM PDT
by
djf
(One of the few FReepers who NEVER clicked the "dead weasel" thread!! But may not last much longer...)
To: djf
The difference
in Butter Beans, Lima Beans & Madagascar Beans is of little importance, but there is a difference.
Most people in the south like
Fordhook lima beans that are commonly called butter beans, and I personally like the pole or vine bean, better than the bush.
My back isn't fond of any bush plant.
Look at
this link for Deer repellent spray.
It'll work until it rains, and usually after a couple of applications, the deer get the hint and won't come pack until next year.
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posted on
08/31/2011 10:05:12 PM PDT
by
Yosemitest
(It's simple, fight or die.)
To: djf
The photo at the top is of peas, probably big boy peas.
Try
this link for butter bean/ lima bean seed.
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posted on
08/31/2011 10:32:28 PM PDT
by
Yosemitest
(It's simple, fight or die.)
To: Yosemitest
Lol. I got this stuff early this year to keep the feral coons and cats away. Can’t remember the name exactly, it’s out in my shed.
Dried, dehydrated, crystallized coyote urine.
Tell ya what. You DO NOT want to be downwind of that can when you open it! NNNNNASSSTYYYYYYYYYY!
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posted on
08/31/2011 10:53:12 PM PDT
by
djf
(One of the few FReepers who NEVER clicked the "dead weasel" thread!! But may not last much longer...)
To: djf
This is what I sprayed on my plants and
it worked, and it didn't stink.
FROM: www.farminfo.org/pests
3 raw eggs
3 tbls. of red hot sauce
3 tbls. of garlic juice or minced
Add enough water to a blender to process and mix well.
Add this to a gallon of water and spray on plants.
You can make the spray last longer by adding Wilt Proof to it.
FROM: A Minnesota Master Gardener at www.extension.umn.edu/yardandgarden/AAMG/wildlife Blend 2 eggs and a cup or two or cold water at high speed.
Add this mixture to a gallon of water and let it stand for 24 hours.
After 24 hours, spray on foliage.
The egg mixture does not wash off easily, but re-application 2-3 times a season may be needed.
For a larger quantity, blend a dozen eggs into 5 gallons of water.
This mix is also said to repel rabbits.
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posted on
08/31/2011 11:52:25 PM PDT
by
Yosemitest
(It's simple, fight or die.)
To: Yosemitest; tubebender; Red_Devil 232
At 10 quarts shy of 5 bushels, why would you shell, instead of cutting & threshing?
I’m assuming you’re talking dry beans.
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posted on
09/01/2011 12:04:21 AM PDT
by
ApplegateRanch
("Public service" does NOT mean servicing the people, like a bull among heifers.)
To: Yosemitest
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posted on
09/01/2011 1:08:19 AM PDT
by
Yosemitest
(It's simple, fight or die.)
To: ApplegateRanch
No, I'm talking about lima beans/ butter beans.
We call them butter beans because we put a lot of butter on them when we eat them.
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posted on
09/01/2011 1:18:18 AM PDT
by
Yosemitest
(It's simple, fight or die.)
To: Yosemitest
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posted on
09/01/2011 1:32:28 AM PDT
by
Yosemitest
(It's simple, fight or die.)
To: IncPen
To: djf
Not this American! Way back when I was a kid, a Lima bean was a hard, nasty tasting green thing, and a butter bean was a softer, tender, slightly mealy, off-white to pale yellow bean 2-3 times larger than a Lima bean.
I would never grow either, so I have no need for a bean thresher, but I do grow green pole beans to eat fresh. I do not save any dry ones, except for seed.
I think I have eaten a few cans of butter beans over the last 30 years, just for bean variety.
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posted on
09/01/2011 1:49:52 AM PDT
by
tdscpa
To: tdscpa
It this what you're talking about?
In order to get these soft, you have to slow cook them for about 1 1/2 to 3 hours.
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posted on
09/01/2011 2:16:00 AM PDT
by
Yosemitest
(It's simple, fight or die.)
To: Yosemitest; Drumbo
Cool thread, especially with the deer repellant recipes & picture of the actual contraption featured further down in the comments!
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posted on
09/01/2011 2:39:16 AM PDT
by
Titan Magroyne
(What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving.)
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