Remembering a dear friend with beans

Buster Evans
by Buster Evans
(I tried to do this in a regular "POST" but for some reason it wouldn't go through).
Remembering a Dear friend... with Beans
Many Many years ago when I had just begun to try my luck at vegetable gardening, I went to Church with a dear little old lady, who was in her 90's at the time... She was feeble and difficult to hear, always had candy in her purse for the kids in the church (if they would be good).. But she asked me to try growing a specific type of beans... She called em "coffee beans" or "peanut Beans" (she said the man at the feed store would know EXACTLY what I was asking for (and he did).
She said the beans are really tasty, and the produce and mature fast enough that you can get two crops in a season.... I planted 2 rows of them that year and sure enough the did exactly as she had said... The beauty of these beans was that (as she said) when they "START" to turn pink you pull up all the plants and just sit down under a shade tree and pick the beans off of em and throw the plants away! Then plant your second crop right back where those were and before fall you'll have another crop to harvest...
After I harvested the first crop that year I took some to her, the following Sunday she invited us (My wife 2 kids and myself) to dinner... It was a wonderful meal, and she had cooked some of the beans from MY garden.... The way she cooked them was in an iron skillet with water and meat (fatback I think or else bacon) ... and the flavor was OUT OF THIS WORLD...

Well ... She has been gone now for many many years... but EVERY year, when I plant my garden, I STILL plant those beans and think of that Dear old Saint of God and how sweet she was, and its such a blessing to my heart when I sit down under the shade tree and pick off the beans and prepare for another planting for fall...
The actual proper name of the beans are " pink half runners" or nickname "peanut bush beans" If there is anything close by they WILL climb it if but planted alone with nothing taller around they will stay bushy....
I just wanted to share with my fellow hometalkers this precious continuing memory of my dear friend from those many years ago, as well as a wonderful type of beans that ANYONE can grow!
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