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[EarthNSky <erthnsky AT bellsouth.net>]

Yesterday while I was in town, I went by the grocery store and I saw
cranberry/October beans.  I bought a couple of pounds of beans to try.
I took the opportunity to stock up on a few other beans and peas, like
black-eyed peas(on the stove cooking now) and split green peas.

The bag of beans I bought is labeled Cranberry or October beans, but
they are mottled and actually smaller than the pintos I have.  I
noticed, too, at the store, their brand of pintos was a mottled bean
like the cranberry, but the pintos I have here are solid colored.
Either way, the October beans are smaller or maybe the same size as
pintos.  Do you just grow large Octobers or small pintos or have I just
got small beans?


Clansgian AT wmconnect.com wrote:

> Dry shell beans are called "soup beans" and the most common type is
> what we call "October beans" but are called dove beans and cranberry
> beans elsewhere.  It's a very large bean that looks like a double
> sized pinto but it is a bush bean and very easy to grow.


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