Applachigan Greasy beans looking good!!

If they grow much more im going to have a hard time picking.

That is a lot of beans.  

How do you eat them?

Are they cooked in the pod?

Anne Miller wrote:That is a lot of beans.  

How do you eat them?

Are they cooked in the pod?

Yes, you can eat them fresh-picked, which is my favorite as there isn't any other bean that can come close to the taste, or you can dry them for shelled beans.
Many older people from around here dry them into what we Appalachians call shuckie beans. Anyway, they're delicious and a very expensive bean selling anywhere between 6 and $10 a pound.

I’m totally sold on greasy beans, even though I’m on the Illinois-Wisconsin line, they grow great here. I do not intend to ever go back to growing common snap beans.
My freezer is loaded, and I’ve canned a bunch as well.

Up here, people would freak out over the fact that most of them have strings that need pulling, and that you need to steam them fifteen or twenty minutes.

I was not prepared for their height and weight. They pulled down my wire supports and the huge sunflowers I planted at the ends of the rows. Next year, I’ll cut saplings and make tall tripods again.
What varieties do you grow?