Black Beans

Part seed saving, part eating!

I left my black beans on the vines until they got papery.  There is a distinctly different feel between a fully dry pod, and a not-yet-dry pod.  I like when things are simple enough for me to figure out.  I pulled off the dry pods, opened 'em up, and pulled out the black beans.  Any bean that didn't feel quite dry went in the dehydrator overnight.  Everything else went in a glass jar for the corn-and-black-bean quesadillas I plan on making next week....

For real, though.  I am pretty proud of these.  I grew my own black beans!  They look like real black beans!  Because they are real black beans!

+1 to gardening.