Greene -- "Just because a person has never seen something doesn't mean that it does not exist. I once found a piece of 'lightning glass' and I never knew it existed"

I totally agree, but what the heck is "lightning glass"

I think I see something on ATP pretty much every day that I never knew existed!

Lightning glass is what is created when lightning strikes sand.

Yep, Horntoad knows his stuff. We were walking along a trail and I saw something sticking up out of the sand. Curious by nature, I picked it up and told my companions that I thought someone had melted a bottle in a campfire. They got all excited, telling me I just found lightning glass.
Okay, one more item on the memory lane bookshelf. I put it next to the petrified clam.

Let's get back to the beans now. I hate Lima beans (even if they are called 'Butter Beans') as much as I hate Brussels Sprouts, but I like a mystery.

I'm still wondering about this. In the meantime, the plant has grown and produced many pods which I have harvested and eaten!

If not P. lunatus, (Lima Bean) perhaps P. vulgaris (Kidney Bean)?

http://www.bing.com/images/sea...

http://garden.org/plants/searc...

I am quoting myself as I still think the beans are close to this one:

greene said:
Dinu, The beans look similar to ones sold as "Heirloom Christmas Beans"; the color pattern can vary.
http://www.americanseedco.com/...
This is the image of the Christmas Lima Beans on the American Seed Co website:

Ooh, those are so pretty! Here are more photos for comparison:

Lima Bean (Phaseolus lunatus 'Christmas Lima')
http://www.rareseeds.com/chris...
http://www.victoryseeds.com/be...
http://loghouseplants.com/plan...

The vine has grown and grown, produced plenty of pods. We are storing the beans after drying them to cook a few at a time once in a while. Can't eat much regularly too, because they have the tendency to produce gas in the stomach after eating.

Nice to see a good harvest.
If you boil the beans, discard water, add new water to boil again, then add carminative herbs will the intestinal gas problem be solved?

greene said:Nice to see a good harvest.
If you boil the beans, discard water, add new water to boil again, then add carminative herbs will the intestinal gas problem be solved?

You can also add baking soda to the water you cook them in.

Kind of looks like fava beans to me.

https://www.northbaytrading.co...

This bean is grown in India and resembles a soybean plant. It's used as forage primarily in India, Australia and Texas. In central Africa it's eaten. The seed's description doesn't look like Dinu's but one of it's common names is 'Butter Bean'.
Poor Man's Beans (Lablab purpureus 'Rongai')

The Hyacinth beans look different than those being harvested by Dinu.

http://www.lablablab.org/html/...