[Homestead] Waxing on about beans

EarthNSky erthnsky at bellsouth.net
Mon Apr 20 17:05:30 EDT 2009


Gotcha.  Are they any more prolific than green or purple types?
I'm thinking chickens...

Clansgian at wmconnect.com wrote:
> In a message dated 4/20/2009 4:11:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
> erthnsky at bellsouth.net writes:
> 
> 
>>> ...how different do
>> they taste-you'd think they could come up with a more appetizing name
>> than wax bean, wouldn't ya?  So they are snapped and cooked like green
>> beans, too?  Not just for salads?  Tell me why I should plant and like
>> wax beans.
>>
> 
> As far as cultivation, cooking,  etc. they are identical in all ways to 
> green green beans.  They do lack a "green" taste.  It's hard to describe unless 
> you just cook them like regular green beans and taste them.  Have you ever 
> eaten the purple green beans (Purple Royalty for example)??  They taste MORE 
> green than the green beans.  Well, the wax beans just taste LESS green.
> 
> They are just a little different, that's all.  Pleasantly so.  When supper 
> ends up being borccoli, spinach, slaw, with a garnish of parsley .... 
> sometimes it's nice to have something NOT green on the plate.
> 
> 
> James
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