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Post by macmex on Aug 11, 2021 6:23:15 GMT -6
While I won't be picking a lot for snaps (want to save seed), I did pick a nice mess of these beans August 2. I took them home, snapped them and we had them with our supper. They were very good. In fact, a week later, my wife commented, again, how much she enjoyed those beans. So, I'm positive that this strain is a "good'un" for snaps. I'd rate it highly as an all purpose food producer on account of the plentiful and high quality dry beans it produces. One could grow a whole lot of these and use whatever they didn't use for snaps as dry beans.
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Post by macmex on Aug 16, 2021 9:52:13 GMT -6
At 73 days from planting this bean produced enough dry seed to replant, if I should have wanted. That's a pretty early pole bean. The pods are leathery, yet easy to shell, making Cherokee Trail of Tears a good one for dry bean production.
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Post by macmex on Sept 8, 2021 12:06:21 GMT -6
This bean seems more willing to dry down than was, say, Ruth Bible, which I grew in the same plot a couple of years ago. Perhaps it's because I went away for 9 days and things got crazy hot and dry at the time. The raised bed doesn't hold moisture as well as a plain flat garden. I have watered them well and we'll see if Cherokee Trail of Tears begins setting more pods soon.
You can see that the plants are looking kind of worn.
When the pods are in the process of drying, they turn purple.
Once fully dry, they are brown.
I see a few flowers, still. The vines set nothing while I was away. With some cooler temps and moisture they might yet produce.
My observation is that this bean would probably work very well on corn.
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