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["Lynda" <lurine AT com-pair.net>]

Sweet peas are flowers here, also.  Then we do sugar snaps,  snow peas and 
shell peas.

Green beans are either green beans or string beans (usually Kentucky Wonder 
here also).  Most folks when just saying beans mean chili and that is 
usually pinto beans.  All other beans are generally referred to by name 
(lima beans, navy beans, cici beans, black beans).

Youngest grows wax beans, and I used to grow Italian beans for the ex.

Lynda
"Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored."  Aldous Huxley
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Lynn Wigglesworth" <lynnw1366 AT hotmail.com>

> Sweet peas here usually means the pea plants grown only for the flower
> (although I've heard fresh green peas called sweet peas, too). "Shell pea"
> here refers to fresh English peas that you remove from the shell to eat
> (i.e. not snap peas or snow peas). Your pretty little red field pea would 
> be
> considered a bean here...there are hundreds of types of beans. "Bean" in
> this part of the country applies to both the green bean and the dried 
> bean;
> all are Phaseolus, but 'green bean' is usually applied the the type eaten
> green (Kentucky Wonder, etc), although, of course, you can dry them,
> too...then they'd be dried or shell beans (because you remove them from 
> the
> shell, I guess). Then there's wax beans, which people around here call
> "yellow green beans". Go figure. Who would have thought beans could get so
> complicated?
>
> Lynn Wigglesworth
> Tioga Co. PA
>
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