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At the risk of looking like a cheap skate and an idiot I ask the following... There loads and loads of freshly harvested beans on the ground in a field which has recently been cut. I'm sure the farmer won't be happy given the ammount that have been left on the floor. I want to show the kids how to get food from the field to the table. I've had them doing this with meat ie pheasent pigeon etc but I have no idea how to prepare or even if I can use the beans.

 

Please can you advise with how to prepare them?

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The bean shells that have been harvested are brown (as is most likely) then the beans will be rock hard and almost inedible when cooked. If you had picked some when the shells were green and soft they would have been quite nice to eat just like a garden bean but now all they would be fit for is seed for next year I don't know if you could grind them up and make a sort of flower out of them but the husks would be absolutely like eating hard plastic. You could plant them in the garden or pots even now and they would grow for harvest next year and demonstrate the growing process. plants make seeds. the seeds then grow and you could harvested them next year as a demonstration to the kids of regeneration. But you will probably forget to do it. To show this process more clearly you could put a few on a plate or similar with some wet paper on it and keep it warm. this is Propagate by seed. Beans do not like to be transplanted but it could be done on this small scale so this is just to show the kids how it all works Germination temperature: 70 F to 80 F - Germination is slow and poor when soil temperatures are below 60 F. Days to emergence: 8 to 10 - Germination may take two weeks or more if soil temperatures are below 60 F.

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