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Beans are another wonderful crop that you can save very easily. A great crop for beginners
to get started with. You can see these scarlet runner beans are fully mature, fully formed
and swollen. Perhaps, not to the point of fully dry. But, ready and viable to be collected
and shelled and saved when they are fully dry. Here you can see three more varieties
of heirloom beans that have been saved. This is a King of the North, an American heirloom.
Which, we saved here at Laughing Dog Farm. And, this is a pole bean from the Kingdom
of Bhutan. Which, was brought back by a friend of ours. And, yet another pole bean. The Bhutanese
word is hsinchu. And, we're extremely excited to plant these heirloom bean seeds. Now, the
way to save bean seeds the way to collect them is to allow the seed to grow and become
fully mature. Often times, at the top of a pole or a trellis. The ones that you can't
reach, the ones that you can't harvest during the season, they're the perfect ones to save
for seed. Because, they're extremely well developed and robust and completely, well
they're probably the most viable. Because, they're right up at the top of the plant.
So, when we're done growing pole beans and we pull down the vines there's a beautiful
seed crop just waiting for us right at the top of the trellis.