I Planted Supermarket Beans (AND THIS HAPPENED)

[@bigrich6750]

Every kid in elementary school in the ‘60s, brought beans to school out of their mom’s pantry to grow in lunchroom milk cartons on the window seal of the classroom. Every single one of them sprouted and the kids got to argue over which one was the best.

[@Kim-ek7xy]

Yup, I remember that.

[@scinerd11]

I hope they still do this. It's so educational! We did it in the 90s too

[@gardeningwithcaitlin]

We did that with Lima beans in the 90s

[@bigrich6750]

@@scinerd11 it was very educational. I couldn’t have germinated Acapulco Gold seeds in my utility room in the ‘70s if I hadn’t gotten educated about germination in the ‘60s. 😀

[@mattpeacock5208]

I did that in the 80's and my 6 year old daughter did the same thing in 2021.

[@normalisgone]

When I was a kid, my dad used dried beans from the grocery store. My uncle laughed at him, and said everybody knows, you can't grow beans from grocery store dried beans. My dad felt kind of silly, but planted them anyway. A few months later we were picking beans out of the garden! There's nothing like the taste of fresh pinto beans! I miss those days...and my dad.

[@ellenorbjornsdottir1166]

I suppose your uncle shut up about beans?

[@normalisgone]

He did! lol@@ellenorbjornsdottir1166

[@dominicjeanb2063]

I’m Christ can see him again one day

[@normalisgone]

@@dominicjeanb2063 absolutely!! =)

[@grannysweet]

I use grocery store in beans and peas. For sprouts, mung sprouts and pea shoots for stir fry million uses. Check different brands, some don't sprout.

[@christines2787]

My kid did this the first summer of the pandemic. She got nervous when she saw that I had added additional garden beds since I wanted the food security and had lots of time. My daughter broke ground on 3 10x10 beds and created a salvaged seed garden. She regrew carrot tops (and learned a great lesson on tap roots) peppers, squash and potatoes all from the grocery store. She also sprouted beans from my pantry. The kidney and pinto beans were very robust. Chickpeas have a totaly different plant type than other beans. She worked so hard. We harvested enough shell beans to make a big pot of mixed bean chili. It was awesome. We made sure she's had quality seeds the past two years so she could continue to grow her skills

[@apsutton336]

Good job to share skills with young ones. Watch Tekos Russian school where kids 7-17 built own school and grow own food cook clean their own school as well. Garlic is good to grow and easy. Have U seen micro greens they are grown on kitchen sink. Just make sure the seeds are non GMO as U will only get one crop out of them. Good microgreens are sunflower peas brocolli. Harvested in 7-10 days And these can be sprouted as well Stay safe

[@christines2787]

@@apsutton336 - will do, and thank you. I do some with micrograms, but I can't help but feel they are a waste of seed. Obviously they are nutritionally dense, and fast growing. But in a months time, I could turn 100 seeds into 100 radish vs a handful of greens. I live in zone 8a now and am able to grow year round wirh the help of a greenhouse and 2 large hydroponics gardens. Our goal is to become self sufficient in vegtables, fruit and eggs. We are working on at least a little grain. Our sweet potatoes and peanuts look promising but obviously we won't know for a few more weeks how we did

[@apsutton336]

@@christines2787 with microgreens plants people suggest to grow some till they are seed. Then U don't need to buy more. Sunflower and pea are good plant protein that is clean of any virus. Did U know sweet potatoes leaves make great salad greens. Carob pods make great eating which is a substitute for chocolate. Can eat whole pods not seeds and is good to reverse hypoglycaemia (sugar cravings). Microgreens have made few people rich selling them to restaurants. Blessings to your family from Australia

[@apsutton336]

@@christines2787 oh and have U seen the new Flow Hives where bee honey is just collected by a tap which means more production coz bees are not disturbed by. Flow hives are on utube. Recommended to keep bees with flower gardens or crops as they pollinate for better crops. If living on a farm or bush walking I use a hand fish spear for protection. If things break down dogs could be a problem in packs. Stay safe

[@christines2787]

@@apsutton336 - I have 6 collies, who will sound the alert when coyotes or dogs come into the yard. They dislike anything bigger than them. Unfortunately woodchuck are small. We are working on it. I'm going to check out that bee hive. What a great idea! We have been putting everything in place for our orchard of dwarf fruit and nut trees. We have several large flower beds throughout our property. They attract bees to our crops. We only have 2 acers, but with vertical gardening we have grown a years worth of several vegetables we eat a lot of. I'm set till next summer on ground cherries, tomatoes, peppers, rhubarb and herbs. I have enough melon, potatoes and squash to last past Christmas. Tomatillo had healthy plants wirh no fruit. Sunflowers and amaranth failed. We will try again. I grow greens year round in my hydroponics garden. I'll be trying to grow small squash over the winter

[@Blaculo]

I grew 150 square feet of black eyed peas off a $1 bag from the grocery store this summer. It was unreal.

[@SENILE_TYRANT]

How many pounds did you harvest?

[@melissan.2201]

And...?

[@sr2291]

Ok. I once planted beans and got a serious attack of bean beetles. They were flying all over the place.

[@donnaf2666]

Yuch! Now you feel obligated to eat them?

[@momma3327]

Mmm 😋 black eyed peas are the best beans lol

[@yx6889]

I threw a bell pepper core into my worm pot and a bunch of them sprouted. I couldn't let them die, so I planted them and they have the cutest little bell peppers growing right now!

[@Radi0ActivSquid]

I did a similar thing with cayenne pepper. I had a jar of dried peppers that I'd been using as decor in my kitchen for years. Well, this year I took em outside and crushed em up into one of my larger pots. A few weeks later I had about a hundred sprouts in my pot.

[@cheerubebayonettaholopaine2638]

i did it with tomatoes. i had a balcony full of little and bigger tomatoe plants this summer. lots of small tomatoes on them 🤣

[@goranmiljus2664]

Same , but with tomato.

[@brrjohnson8131]

The best bell peppers, tomatoes & jalapeños I've tasted or grown sprouted in my compost pile, in the 90's.

[@johnliberty3647]

when a pepper rots before i pick it I just let it drop, its a great reseeding plant, Cayennes seem to be the most likely to come back in spring

[@kevinbane3588]

This actually goes even deeper than this. If you had selected beans from the most productive plants and then you allow them to adapt to your area they would grow a lot more beans than what you just harvested.

[@brunopadovani7347]

Exactly right. And within 2 or 3 years you'd be getting a 6/1 ratio instead of a 3/1 ratio.

[@carltaylor4942]

Kevin Bane - Absolutely. Plants adapt quickly to their environment and become more productive with time.

[@quantux]

Thank you for this knowledge. It seems obvious after the fact but I wouldn’t have thought of it.

[@BaybAzzon]

Thank you for the wisdom! Thank you so much It was obvious and I did not think of it!

[@jimg5669]

Oh joy so I'd only need 200 producing plants to get a $1 pound of dried beans. And if I use a mere one pound a month through the year, that's 2400 plants for the harvest. How much will that water cost? 😮 I'm sensing a problem here. 🤔 (Yes, I'm all for hobby gardening for fun and variety in ones diet, but I'm sad to see the return with these beans.)

[@hughezzell10000]

I lived by a large vacant field once. A sharecropper leased the field. His name was George. George was going to plant that field in pinto beans one year. I watched him do it. I watched the field grow and mature and I watched George harvest the beans into a semi truck trailer and haul them off. They were bush type and grew very robust and quickly (well, it took most of the summer). George's greatest challenge were ground squirrels that liked beans. He was a man of very few words, but he had plenty to say about ground squirrels. That summer was a lesson for me about growing beans. I'd venture to say all dry beans you find in the grocery store are going to be heirloom varieties - not hybrids. This is because, first, hybrids are single generation seeds - the subsequent generations of seeds will not be the hybrid but a variety of one of the two parent plants. Commercial growers cannot afford seeds manufactured for just one generation as their seed stock usually comes from their past years stock (the exception to this is corn). As far as bush vs pole beans, the pole bean is pretty much a back yard gardner's crop. How could a commercial farmer grow supported beans on their scale? That's why the commercial beans you find in the store are most likely the bush type (self supporting) plants. The harvester moves along and cuts the plants off at the base, take them up into the machine, removes the beans/pods and spits the plant out the back to be disced back into the ground. Beans grown in other countries (not mexico) may be irradiated when coming into our country to sanitize them. This process also renders the seed infertile/incapable of germinating. So, I would suggest looking for beans domestically grown to do this with, which will be most of what you find anyway.

[@rosemarythomas963]

I've tried growing mayacoba beans from the grocery store (presumably grown in my own state) and they didn't germinate and immediately grew black mold.

[@grantflippin7808]

I've also found that grocery store beans are way more productive than seed packet beans, which makes some sense because store beans are sold by the pound, while packets beans sell by the dozen.

[@Kyle-sr6jm]

Beans feed you twice. Once with the beans Once with the critters the beans bring to your rifle.

[@nadalhector2148]

GMOS SEEDS WONT GERMINATE.

[@katherinenightingale2205]

Great info, thanks!

[@grassfeeding6073]

Threshing advice from someone who grows edible beans commercially: buy a pair of good work gloves, put your pods in a 5 gallon bucket. Grab a handful of pods and roll them between your hands back and forth with pressure applied. This will thresh the pods. Once threshed, take the bucket outside. I use a low power leaf blower and carefully angle it into the bucket, this blows the pods out. Shake around to reposition and continue until clean. This is the fastest method I've found when I need to test a sample for moisture prior to harvest.

[@LaraeO]

When my grandpa was a little boy (1920s Appalachian mountains in Kentucky) he said that him and his siblings would put them in pillowcases and would sling/beat them on the ground to get the beans out of the pods. He said they always looked forward to it.😂

[@suzyq6767]

I did the same with pinto beans this summer. Because I was going to be gone all summer, I just planted beans around the landscaping where they would get water. When I returned, I had dozens of plants with dried beans. They were the tastiest pintos I've ever eaten. I'll do this stealth edible landscaping again.

[@darrellcook8253]

Artichokes make great edible landscaping plants but you better give them plenty of room. And if you let them flower you get buku amounts of seed. I planted mine 6 or more feet apart. They grew together anyways. Easy to divide too.

[@nates2526]

I really like videos like this that show a whole growing season with descriptions rather than a snapshot in time. Thanks for all the work you put into it!

[@Dave-ty2qp]

You should check out Hollis and Nancy's Homestead. Their videos are from start to finish step by step.

[@CyberSERT]

Costco usually sells organic mung beans for cooking, but I plant them for sprouting. So much cheaper than buying beans marketed for sprouting.

[@nvw2978]

I do too. Mung beans are easy to sprout and so delicious. Try green/brown lentils.

[@jt4369]

I’ve observed that the folk in the comments section of gardening videos definitely do not write the usual incendiary trash one often encounters on KZbin these days. Nice to see this is where the nice people hang out. I did something similar. A friend of mine (who at the time was going through hard times) was given a bag of black beans at the food bank. She used half a bag to make beans that she had one particular evening with tacos. I remember her crying about the past and worries about the future. I suggested that we take the other half of the beans and plant them in her garden patch which needed much TLC. I tilled the dirt and amended it with very basic nutrients and planted a handful of the black beans. For good measure I stuck in some thin bamboo sticks and daisy chained something akin to a trellis. The beans exploded in growth. Moreover, as they grew, I could see my friend’s disposition improve. She certainly seemed happier whenever she saw the verdant leaves. After the odd loss and the non sprouters were taken into account I’d say that our “return” was about 400 percent, I.e., for the quarter pound of seeds we planted we easily for 2.0 pounds. Frankly, I think we got even more. She still grows them and she has other plants growing too, including squash and peppers. Frankly, that patch of ugly dirt in the back is now just a memory. Oh, and she got another job. It was a voyage but she eventually got back on her feet.

[@bettyyoung1976]

Kind people are everywhere… I’m glad you diverted your friend’s attention away from her woes and started a new healthy hobby! We all need to rest our minds away from the problems of the day. Thank you for being a great friend.

[@emtpwanabe]

I did this experiment too! Black beans, small red, and kidney. Small plots of about 10’x2’ and got almost 1/2 gallon of dried beans at harvest. Next year I will grow many more!

[@ciaragarrity6425]

You should look for the bags of 20 different beans, I think the company was Ham’s.

[@emtpwanabe]

@@ciaragarrity6425 yes!!! That would be fun to do!

[@lorilaughlin6177]

I was wondering about red beans. Thank you.

[@downtime86stars17]

Plus your soil has a nice dose of nitrogen added to it for next year.

[@DaGahbageMan]

@@ciaragarrity6425 Hurst Hambeens?

[@mrdovie47]

I once planted Red Kidney Beans from the store and ate them as green beans until they developed too much fuzz and I let them mature. They were some of the best green beans I've ever eaten. It was like eating steak, so flavorful and satisfying. I was in Michigan at the time.

[@heidimisfeldt5685]

🏡🏠🌳 Your home garden likely has much better soil, and greater mineral and trace mineral content in existence, which the plants will have too, compare to the depleted soils of mass producing farms, which definitely are very depleted and use all kinds of chemicals. That explains the difference in flavor. Said minerals add flavors. Artificial fertilizers only contain 3 minerals, in varying proportions. Always. Small family farms, or small scale gardeners likely use home produced compost, manure, rockdust, finely brocken up eggshells, tree leaves and grass clippings in their gardens. Woodchips and sawdust from untreated woods are also very beneficial, and enrich the garden soil as they slowly decompose, and hold some moisture in place. Even small amounts of plain white sugar benefit the microryzome underneath the topsoil and inside it, which in turn benefits the root system of whatever grows in such small scale gardens.

[@mrdovie47]

@@heidimisfeldt5685 I had just bought the land and had a house built & put in a small garden, it was all weeds before.

[@ToastieBoo]

How does a red kidney bean turn into a green bean?

[@mrdovie47]

@@ToastieBoo It grows in a pod of several beans after flowering. It gets bigger every day, but if you wait too long, the pods will become very hairy and you might as well wait for them to dry out. While they are young you can eat pod and all & they are great.

[@ecouturehandmades5166]

I had a small garden in Fargo that I 'rescued' from the lawn and trash pile (as it turned out, lol! lots of rocks and tin cans), digging as deep as I could. Because it was "fresh dirt" Anything I planted in it grew. And Grew. AND GREW! Best argument for getting rid of green grass lawns and reusing what was likely the best farmland in the area, especially if you live in a suburb. 100 years ago, your property was likely a farm, orchard or woodlands that created the food that the city needed to be there.

[@debtipka]

You can also eat them green before the bean develops. I throw them in a bag in the freezer until I have enough for a meal. A pot of green beans, new potatoes & sausage is what's for dinner!

[@dr.froghopper6711]

Remember, every viable bean that you harvested is a 100% return on the single seed that produced the plant. 100 beans from a single plant is a 10,000% return. A well tended bean plant will produce more than 100 beans.

[@karenbuckner1959]

Great investment advice.

[@auger8451]

This is true. You also have to account for loss, seeds planted tgat don’t produce a plant. Tho it is a return on that 1 plant. Even a well tended plant can be eaten in an instant by 1 hungry animal

[@dr.froghopper6711]

@@karenbuckner1959 a garden is a bank of sorts. “There is much food in the tillage of the poor”-Proverbs 13:23a I once thought about how I planted one seed and got one plant and I wondered where the increase was. Then it dawned on me. One seed was one plant but the plant fruited and the fruit produced uncountable seeds, just like the one I had planted.

[@karenbuckner1959]

@@dr.froghopper6711 God is amazing, isn't He?

[@dr.froghopper6711]

@@karenbuckner1959 absolutely! He created a system that regularly blows me away. God is GREAT and greatly to be praised!

[@claudineriley6953]

I took a carrot from the store that had a lot of roots coming out of it. Put it in the dirt, it grew, flowered,seeded and now i have a lot of free carrot seeds.

[@OhPervyOne]

THIS is the real secret behind those regrowing "hacks" you hear about. I don't expect more food. But I do expect to get a bunch of seeds to plant... and THAT's what gets me more food. I just wish more people would see that instead of dismissing the "hacks" as worthless. Enjoy your next season crop of carrots!

[@rickpitts2277]

Grandma always let the last of the speckled butter beans, purple hull peas and cream peas dry on the plant for next years seeds, Okra as well was allowed to fully mature and dry the last few pods for seed. She hadn't bought new seed in 30/40 years while she still gardened.

[@paularobinson2352]

I grew those beans this year for the first time. I didn't make enough dry beans for a meal but now I have enough to make a real planting of them for next spring. Beautiful Calico beans.

[@mochakiss8250]

Smart lady!

[@susanstarks109]

Pinto beans from the supermarket will definitely grow. Many times when washing the beans for soaking, one will slip out and go down the drain before I can catch it. Sure enough, give it 10 days and there will be a little bean plant peeking out of the drain. I generally pull it out gently and plant it. Outdoors if it’s growing season, indoors if not.

[@kenbellchambers4577]

I trained two bean plants a few years ago just as an experiment. The two seeds were one of the green bean family of beans and they were the climbing variety. I started with four tomato stakes, and I simply guided the two young vines by hand every day. They could grow around the stakes, or across the stakes from corner to corner, and this happened over and over as the beans grew up the stakes. After a few weeks, the entire frame was covered with vine which divided into many more vines, and they produced a large crop of beans. With more stakes, I could have doubled the crop easily. The only thing the beans got was a thick layer of compost, a little river sand and a thick mulch on top of that. Only two beans were used to grow a pound of seed.

[@jeffmeyers3837]

@Ken Bellchambers Are you saying you trained the bean vines to climb up and around the first stake to the top, then across to the second stack, and then what, down the second stake? Or did you train them to go back and forth between 2 stackes, gradually up both stakes until they reached the top? I am fascinated by your commend and would like to try it, so any details you provide would be very useful.

[@kenbellchambers4577]

@@jeffmeyers3837 Hi Jeff. I guided the young bean shoot from one stake to another starting low down on the stakes. The two shoots went around the four stakes or across the stakes diagonally depending on the spaces I was trying to fill. I just kept training them from the bottom to the top, around and around until every possible spot had vines. There must have been scores of feet of vine by the time I stopped. I could have added more stakes and let the vine grow long enough to reach the bottom of another set of stakes just done the same thing again, but I had so many vines that I just stopped the experiment. It was great fun, and I will be trying this again for sure.

[@theurzamachine]

My first season of growing grocery store beans was 50% germination in my heavier clay soil. Next season was 95%. It's amazing how quickly you can weed out the beans without the strong genes.

[@vansgardens2304]

They make a cheap cover crop also. I plant them about 6-8 weeks before frost. Then when the frost kills them, I cover the bed with chopped leaves.

[@mylaughinghog]

I've long thought it would be fun to do this with a 15 bean soup package, minus the split seeds.

[@lpmoron6258]

Love 15 bean soup! I will do this.

[@yeevita]

I have a canister of mixed beans that I have grown in the garden. As far as I can tell, they just give me more beans. I ate them as green beans. Considering this jar is like 10 years old (came from my previous house over 10 years ago), I am always impressed when I can grow them. I still sprout a handful each year. I actually have tried seeds from the pantry and from various supermarkets foods over the years and they are always great. I also have plants that came from supermarket cuttings and I still have them, or their progeny. The supermarket is a fantastic place to get seeds and plants.

[@covahsmusicvault8953]

I have news for you....even the yellow split peas will grow.

[@paulie6446]

Split seeds grow too!✌️

[@covahsmusicvault8953]

@@paulie6446 So have you grown splits too because I already said mine grow. If you've grown them yourself then that's more proof when folks don't believe me. I actually grew 1 separate to show people in my family circle.

[@michelepaccione8806]

I’ve grown lots of supermarket beans. But once I started growing runner beans the smaller beans just seemed too fiddly to grow. I’m not sure why runners aren’t more popular in the USA, since they’re so popular in England. There they eat them young as green beans, but I prefer to grow them for dry beans. They’re big and meaty and very prolific. And the vines are pretty, the flowers are beautiful…the hummingbirds, bees, butterflies love them. Of course, you can’t get them in the supermarket. But you only have to buy the seeds once, then just save some to plant each year. You can grow them up a trellis, on a fence, I even planted some to grow over a shrub and up a tree.

[@giuseppelogiurato5718]

We do have runner-beans in USA... Not at the super market, but we do grow them in our gardens and one can find them at "farmer's markets" sometimes. I agree, they are delicious and easy to grow.

[@michelepaccione8806]

@@giuseppelogiurato5718 I live in NJ. ;) I've never seen them at farmer's markets...surprised they sell them!

[@dogmosatchmo]

Most seed packs you buy for gardening in the states, are runner beans and pole beans. Bush varieties are available as well, but nowhere near as prevalent comparatively speaking.

[@jacobshort6528]

I bought runner seed beans at Walmart and Meijer's, and I trained them up some tomato cages, then tied baling twine between the cages. I've been picking pods for weeks.

[@megkag1977]

My father-in law planted store bought beans all the time, planted them right out the bag, and he always had success with them.

[@elaineboone8567]

My grandparents homesteads a pinto bean farm in New Mexico from 1916 to 1919. One year they harvested 20,000 pounds of beans. I can't even imagine how they did it. I was raised on pint of and eat them all the time.

[@sielorstout1213]

Pinto beans are my favorite food!🎉

[@dr.froghopper6711]

Soul food baby! Soy Nuevo Mexicano! A bowl of pintos, cornbread, onions, red Chile, menudo mix herbs-heaven in a bowl!

[@MR..181]

Thanks for the reminder

[@karmelicanke]

@@dr.froghopper6711 I'm reading this at bedtime and it's too late to whip up a batch beans and cornbread now! There's always tomorrow.

[@lindamoses3697]

Wow! Pretty cool!

[@terrynelson2899]

I did this years ago with Orville Redinbacher popcorn. It made a great crop of popcorn. I probably did not spell Redenbacher correctly. Lol

[@angelatoplovich8998]

Thank you! I have NEVER considered growing popcorn! But u can bet I certainly will NOW! It's a shame I have to wait til spring I'm in zone 8a

[@paularobinson2352]

I grew strawberry popcorn too feed my chickens. It is small enough you don't have to grind it. Now I have a grinder so I tired actually popping it & it was too small to bother with. It grew very well, though.

[@ellenorbjornsdottir1166]

absolute madness. i must try it

[@Enjoymentboy]

About 20 years ago i discovered completely by accident that yes, you can grow beans from these. My wife dropped a bag of groceries when unloading the car and the bag of kidney beans split open and skilled over the lawn. Within days we had dozens of bean plants popping up in the grass.

[@ruthsmith9179]

I planted the seeds from green peppers and they are producing as I am writing this. Gardening is fun!

[@JDKent-tz5of]

I had an older friend always planted dry pinto Beans. He ALWAYS had beautiful flat snap beans that when canned, were the best I ever had! Pick before beans get too full, and you will have a much longer harvest and have the best green beans!! Try them if you like green beans.

[@pricklypear7516]

Conversely, when you miss a few green beans when picking and they get big and leathery, set the pods aside to dry. By the end of the season, you have a big batch of dried green beans that taste a great deal like pinto beans when cooked.

[@robertfischer380]

Yes! Pintos are the best green beans..

[@jonniricard5383]

I planted pinto beans and I also planted seeds from an Organic red bell pepper. I grew tons of beans and pepper plants this way. The bel.pepper plants produced about 2-4 peppers each.

[@margaretwest8557]

While cleaning out my chest freezer this past Spring I found a bag of dried beans in the bottom that had a best by date of 2012. I put some in dirt just to see if they would sprout. They all sprouted. I was pleasantly surprised.

[@cygna1237]

You can keep dried beans in mason jars for 25 years with a couple of bayleafs or oxygen absorber. Just sort them pull bad ones and rocks out.

[@MotosAllotmentGarden]

i do this with chickpeas (garbanzo bean), Works most of the time 😁

[@glassontherocks]

My grandmother used to grow what she called "Store bought beans" every year back on the early 60's. She had huge crops every year. I remember snapping beans with her for hours.

[@gardenerkatinnorcal9a]

You know why I love this video? Because it reminds all the experienced/veteran gardeners out there to always be curious and well…. HAVE FUN when we garden. I love it. It might seem silly to those watching who…. to summarize what you said in your seed saving live chat, can’t see past its face value. But to those of us with curiosity in our hearts it makes me feel like a kid again. Your notes are impeccable, which I appreciate. But the enthusiasm and curiosity are like a source of energy for all of us. Marveling at your full grown bean plants from such a humble start. I dig it a thousand percent, and I hope you do more experiments like this one in the future! Thank you Gardener Scott. 👏 🫘 🌱 🍽

[@PeterSedesse]

i did this a few years. once you are on the second generation you can get 10 to 1 pretty easily. you can also shorten the time to harvest by keeping the beans from the first to brown plants as your seed beans. i was in central america and was able to grow them year round. was very easy to improve the genetics

[@LifeForceGenerator]

I love these experimental type videos!! This was very educational and entertaining. Thanks for posting.

[@d.k.barker9465]

In Texas I was raised on these in the 1950s. Hints: I much prefer the taste of green pintos (snaps, immature pintos) to the stores "Green Beans". The flavor is much more robust. And you can start to eat them much earlier. Common cooking technique was to add cooked crisp bacon, cubed ham or ham hock and black pepper, and of course Tabasco at the table to taste. My mother, an avid gardener, used to bury heat tapes, (that were used to prevent pipes freezing), about six inches below the surface and we would plant potatoes, pintoes, turnips, and mustard greens in late January. She would also put rows of bricks on each side of the plant rows then cover all rows with a product I haven't seen in years. It was like hail screen wire covered with some translucent plasticity, paper type material that let sunlight through. Occasionally some of the tops would freeze, but that didn't seem to bother anything but the pintos. Everything else would just start to grow again from the roots. The pintos, of course didn’t. These "Row Covers" were made into individual arched sections about 1 1/2 feet wide and 6 feet long. The North side corners were staked into the ground, but the South side not staked. Later in March or so on hot days we would tip the row covers back so on hot days the plants didn't get too hot. Good Luck. Man I'm hungry.

[@michaelwatson7298]

I have planted China doll Black eyed peas from the grocery store and they grew and produced just fine.

[@debbiepaquin8842]

I planted yellow wax 1 year and we had drought and I didn't water. 5 plants lived and made pods, i saved them for seeds. The next year I planted those seeds and they out produced all the other kinds of greenbeans. As far as a bag of grocery store beans, I planted that in my first garden because I had no other seeds. We picked 5 Gallon buckets full as greenbeans that year. They were either navy beans or great northern beans.

[@kjrchannel1480]

This is something that most people don't think about for sure. I don't think I will wait 3 or more seasons to make a pot of chili though, if I could only use what I grew. It makes a person appreciate what farmers do even more. No different than if you had to grow all the grain for a single loaf of bread.

[@TheClari25]

I imagine that if you stagger out your planting and keep it up, you can make sure you always have pinto beans ready to harvest

[@paularobinson2352]

We grew wheat one year & our sons punishment was he has to pick it, thresh it & grind it. We had enough for pancakes the next mornings breakfast. I forget what he was in trouble for but neither of us had forgotten the fun we had. Instead of it really being a punishment it ended up being family fun. We cheered him on! Now he works in a restaurant.

[@donna7338]

At the price of groceries and the unknown and unsettling situation about worldwide famine, this is something we all should consider. Beans are cheap so why not set aside all types of dried beans to plant, keeping some set aside for the next planting season. Your channel is full of great ideas. Please keep up the good works. Thank you for sharing.

[@GraeMatterz]

[Scott throws broken beans into compost pile] Me: Nooooo! Soak a bunch more and throw them in the crock pot!

[@amymorales4622]

Compost pile = more future beans. It’s all good.

[@alfonsomunoz4424]

I thought the same thing. Eat them!

[@Kyle-sr6jm]

He isn hungry.

[@libertygiveme1987]

That's WONDERFUL to get 3 Pounds of Beans out of a 1 Pound Bag!!!! VERY GOOD!!!!

[@Frank-fs5nv]

I planted some store bought lentils and they grew just fine.

[@northrockboy]

Basically all legumes are non gmo and non hybrid. My dad used to grow yellow field peas and keep some for following years seed. Same with lentils.

[@paularobinson2352]

What was the rate of return on your lentils? We just discovered them this year & love them.

[@jeanniemainzer8551]

It’s nice to see that Jeff Bridges has a fun hobby.

[@rosemarystanley1363]

I use whole dried peas from the store to grow pea shoots over the winter. They’re so cheap, and I get high germination rates.

[@jenjoy4353]

What sort of grow light system do you use. I’m thinking of doing this.

[@francesbatycki404]

Under a grow light?

[@lpmoron6258]

What pea do I look for and what zone are you in please?

[@laceandbits]

This is a much better return on effort. Firstly the growing period is much shorter, secondly, if you cut carefully you can get at least three crops from the same plants and thirdly (possibly most importantly) pea shoots (in the UK at least) are harder to find in supermarkets and expensive. It always makes sense to me, when possible, to grow crops which are inexpensive to grow but a luxury to buy rather than tying up a big chunk of garden for a whole season for inexpensive basics.

[@francesbatycki404]

Rosemary, do you grow the peas under a grow light or just with natural light?

[@MarciesWhimsySoaps]

I grew supermarket kidney beans and they did great! The internet said that most commercial beans are bush style, and they were!😁

[@laurabehenna7950]

I've noticed in the garden seed catalogs that beans are one of the few vegetables that I've never seen marked as hybrids. They all seem to be open pollinated. Same for lettuce.

[@FloridaGirl-]

Great vid! I love the whole break down. Such a good teacher! 👍 This summer I took my raised beds down here as I was ammending them for fall and winter. I planted a cover crop of black eyed peas. Bag from the grocery store. They germinated without soaking in 2 days. And thrived in this scortching heat. I cut them off at the soil line. And didn’t pull the roots. Left them in for decomposition and the nitrogen value. And took the tops, cut them back 2x and didnt let them produce fruit. And chopped them into a 5 gal bucket, added water. Covered it. Let it decompose. (Which only took a week). And used that as a compost tea for my newly planted fruit trees and. Things. They loved it. Thanks again for another great vid! 👍

[@OhPervyOne]

'Things' you say? Potted plants, perhaps?

[@sonnyamoran7383]

I think mine did great considering I knew nothing about growing them. I'll always use the store bought one. I'm growing food for a couple families. It's easy and cheap. Plus it will fill a hungry belly if need be. I just wanted to grow something and money was very tight so bags of beans it is.Thanks for your time again.

[@violetmarcum5309]

My grandma always used store bought beans when she planted her garden .Now I do the same. Planted great northern this past season.

[@wildchook745]

Clever. Yes, I did something similar with the mustard seeds from the herbs section at the supermarket. I didn't eat them because I'd never eaten them (I do now) before. The pollinators loved the flowers. Those beans are a cheaper way of using it as a cover crop too, eh :)

[@ciaragarrity6425]

That’s interesting. I tried growing roasted flax seeds, that were not genetically modified, and even if they were roasted they still grew! Chia seeds work too!

[@darrellcook8253]

Try planting the cilantro in the Mexican food department. There's an amazing germination rate and the same thing with the whole marjoram, a few seed make their way into some unique marjoram plants. I had one turn into a three foot tall two foot wide bush. Awesome flavor.

[@sjfuqua]

@@darrellcook8253 would the dried cilantro seed be coriander seed?

[@nimblenemo]

This has to be the most useful video on the internet. It’s so well thought through to show the effort and the outcome in terms of actual weight! Great job!

[@mudpiemudpie785]

One of the most interesting and practical gardening videos I've watched lately. I'm going to try it with red kidney beans. Thanks.

[@katyquintus]

Me to! I love red kidney beans and am very hopeful I have similar results.

[@dr.froghopper6711]

I’ve done it with the red kidney beans with very good results. I was expecting a runner pole bean but got bush beans instead. Pinto beans grow exceptionally well here in New Mexico! I grow them on trellises and plant them every 4”.

[@annethomson4920]

@@dr.froghopper6711 so it has to be very hot?

[@C-Here]

Shhhhhh- the big companies will start to only sell "dead" seeds... (non sprouting) ones soon... Years ago a neighbour/friend planted out the Sunflower seeds she'd purchased... all sprouted as they should- but when the beautiful big flowers formed their seeds- ALL the seeds were hollow! She taught Permaculture classes- and used those empty seeds as a valuable lesson in purchasing "Old World" (viable) seeds only... Great vid btw 👌

[@SgtSnausages]

We harvest about 80 pounds of dried beans a year. Pinto. Black Bean. Great Northern. Dark Red Kidney. Black-Eyed Pea. All were started 2+ decades ago from grocery store bags and we've saved our own from those since.

[@Katgirl2024]

Whoah really? Fascinating! I love it.

[@kjrchannel1480]

how big of an area do you devote for beans?

[@thebirdartistscottage]

@@kjrchannel1480 I was wondering the same thing!

[@Run4Ever77]

Awesome!!

[@RachaelBally]

Also commenting in hopes that I'd get the area planted as well

[@lizworkman9967]

That was great to know! I planted regular grocery store potatoes in two flower planters and got a great harvest. I didn't need seed potatoes!

[@Coolcupcake013]

My 4 year old nephew and I planted some pinto beans that had been in a sensory bin for about a year. He was playing one day and asked if he could plant these beans. I said sure and we went right out and put them in the garden. We planted 4. Three came up and produced beans. We didn’t soak them, just put them in dry.

[@kb3svj]

the sound of the seeds plunking into the bowl is pleasing to the ear.

[@jeaniemalone5304]

You are so smart, so resourceful, and so helpful to the rest of us. Thank you!!!🌱

[@krisyallowega5487]

Good to see you again sir! I have had better success with allowing the seeds to sprout first on a paper towel. I got into the habit of sprouting beans for the sprouts. The Mung Bean Sprouts for Asian Cuisine are hard to come by these days but the beans are available in the dry goods section. So I grow my own Mung Beans now.

[@nancyweber5451]

I did the same experiment this year using Navy beans. It was a bush plant. I’m still shelling them, but I’m calling it a success. Two years ago I tried Garbanzo. Beautiful plant with lacy white flowers.

[@jerrygray5510]

This is exactly how my mom would grow her beans in our garden every year. She would harvest some beans early and can them as green beans, and she would let some grow to seed to cook. She never saved the seeds because a bag of beans was dirt cheap and she had 7 hungry mouths to feed. We ate lots of beans.

[@johntheherbalistg8756]

In my experience (which is a lot, since I plant them every year, sometimes twice), grocery store pintos are absolute troopers in the garden. They sprout very well, and always produce, besides that they're better when they aren't stale. My only issue is that anything that eats plants will eat them. I've had every kind of bug, chickens, deer and even dogs eat my pintos, so guard them well if you plant them. Since they grow so quickly, I usually plant about a handful in my bedroom to freshen the old, uncirculated winter air. Those don't produce much, but that's not what I planted them for, and I usually plant what they produce anyway. Overall, they're great, if you can keep the entire animal kingdom away from them while they grow

[@saywhat8966]

Almost thought that was a word processor typo until you said the plant makes a nice air freshener. LOL

[@raydel5732]

Thanks Scott, Considering the way commercial harvesters work I would have been very surprised if the beans turned out to be vine (pole) beans. I planted Goya peas this year and they were also bush. Another thing to think of when using store products. The verity in the bag can vary as all the farmers beans are put into one vat then bagged. While they all will be (pinto) the surprise is when you see different verities growing in your garden. Ray Delbury Sussex County NJ USA

[@pintsizestories196]

What a fun project. Very economical way to grow dried beans.

[@yeevita]

I have been growing the same bag of organic mung beans for bean sprouts for the last 5 years or so. I only need a tablespoon or so to fill up a jar, so I am still using the same bag. The last time I sprouted, about a month ago, it still germinated at what looked like 100%. Unfortunately I bought 2 bags, so I have an unopened bag still. I even cooked some but I really like bean sprouts better. The sprouts came up very fast and strong. I have also grown from a jar of old beans I have. The germination on those is not as good but still I always get a few bean plants from those. I basically use those just for curiosity. I forgot to mention that the supermarket is also a good source for plants and cuttings. I currently have a bunch of yellow sweet potato plants from the supermarket. I had some thai basil earlier. I have various things like water spinach, etc that came as cuttings from the market. My garlic always comes from the supermarket. Some is in the multi-generations, since I always grow the biggest cloves from both homegrown and purchased. My market peppers have not been as successful, but my saved seeds have done very well. I think however one gets plants is always good. I always collect seeds when I travel, and when gardeners let me, I collect cuttings as well.

[@reneejmj]

I did this experiment last year with both pinto and black beans (same brand as you) and got similar results

[@seanmacdonald5255]

I live on a small farm. Back in the 1990s I planted a number of types of those supermarket beans plus some vegetable seed company beans that I knew were pole beans. Using a tractor and a 4 row planter, I planted an acre of open pollinated seed corn. Then I changed planter plates to be able to plant beans. Each of the seed hoppers had a different kind of bean. Kidney beans, pinto beans, navy beans, and more. The generic supermarket beans had ok germination about like you described. The 2 kinds of pole beans, both from seed companies, did well.

[@seanmacdonald5255]

Posting that was unintended since I wasn't done. Once the planter boxes were ready, I drove in my same planter tracks and planted the beans in the same rows as the corn. Then I hand planted field pumpkins in the same rows but well paced out. Yields were not spectacular but we harvested several years worth of dried beans and corn for flour. The rest of the corn and beans, including the remaining stalks, were cut for livestock feed. The pumpkins were harvested separately to get them out of the way. Cattle, sheep, goats, chickens, ducks, and geese happily ate everything we designated as feed.

[@BettyBoopBarnes]

One of my favourite beans to eat as a green bean! Roma beans you'd pay $3 for a handful at a seed seller. To me they have a richer taste, and more firm, substantial bite than a typical round bean

[@kimberlypatton205]

50 years ago I started my love for plants and planted some dried pantry Lima Beans outside next to our screened patio in S. Florida. Before I knew it they were climbing up a bamboo pole about 8 ft up and started over the top! I did get a few pods from it! But it was fun… and started me on my career later as a now retired horticulturist/ landscaper!

[@davidbrooks7385]

Thanks for the video. Don't know why I was expecting something about a " giant stalk".

[@aprillynn9279]

That yellow Tupperware strainer you had the beans in suddenly brought back memories..my mom had one♥️

[@michelledenise5096]

I have grocery store dried field peas and dried black beans growing right now. PLUS, I planted FRESH butter beans and they also sprouted and are doing well…I wasn’t sure if fresh beans were too immature but they are doing well so far.

[@jessicapearson9479]

It is funny that so many people are unaware that the beans (any supermarket seeds) are non GMO or that the beans are heirloom!! They grow true to type every year. I grow my beans like this for our garden. Best price on bean seeds. That I have found. By the way you can also grow food grade poppy seeds too. Along with corn (for popping and eating). As well as rice as long as it is organic and unbleached. You can do this with soooooo many things you buy for your dry goods for the pantry!!!

[@lizhyrkas3989]

My old coworker grew his own quinoa too (from regular bags from grocery store).

[@jessicapearson9479]

I do that myself!! It really is amazing at where you can find good seeds if you do not get stuck up on the name brand companies or the who GMO(no seed you buy for growing or eating will have gmo in it as it is illegal for common consumers to have), hybrid or heirloom. Organic or not organic. I find that most seeds you get like from beans, arrowsmith, poppyseed (food grade) and more are usually true to type.

[@bobfanning6816]

Those "grocery store" pinto seeds are pretty good if you eat them green just like snap beans.

[@suemee1328]

I recently sprouted whole yellow peas that had been in my pantry several years. They germinated surprisingly well for their age, and & chickens loved the sprouts. I know have enough held back to plant out in the garden next spring to restore my bag of whole yellow peas.

[@GardeningWithJohn]

That's impressive from shop bought beans not produced for selling as seeds. Now you've got fresh seeds to sow and you now know its growing habbit. It's great growing things like French beans and just off of one or two plants saving seeds for next year on and on great fun. All the best, John, Hampshire, UK

[@h.s.thompsonduke8105]

It the early 90's we homeschooled our girls. We planted a grocery store bag of black beans. They grew like Kudzu bushes! We had about a 50 pound harvest. You have to let them really dry down on the dead plants in the dry sun or they can mold.

[@lindarussell6311]

My parents used generic pinto and black-eyed peas in the garden. We harvest green beans and peas a couple times, then let them dry. You can harvest once the pods turn yellow and let them dry off the plant, in the pod. They are usually still viable and and are edible. You can also use store bought potatoes and plant your onion roots. It may take awhile for the potatoes to sprout so buy early and put them in a cardboard box or paper bag to sprout. You can give them a light rinse, don't scrub and pat dry but you don't have to.

[@ruthspillman546]

I bought dried green peas at the curb market last year. Ivhad purchased 2 small packs of seeds also. I planted both. The packets of seeds produced small spinly plants with small pea pods. The dried peas produced large plants full of large green peas!!! I still have some of the dried peas and will plant them next year for a great harvest!!! Try buying ones from large tubs at your fresh markets or curb markets, they may produce a better plant and a larger harvest!!!

[@MN_Candy]

Since they need to be mass planted and mass harvested, there's no chance you'd get the pole bean pintos. I've been meaning to try planting some of my dry beans. This video was a good reminder!

[@KittyMama61]

I have some white beans in my cabinet that have been up there for over 10 years, in a 2-liter plastic bottle and sealed with oxygen absorbers. My husband wanted some, so I got them down, weighed out a pound of them, then soaked them overnight. To my surprise, every single bean sprouted! I could have planted them with no problem whatsoever.

[@billypabst3272]

We ate pintos green when I was A kid, we called them string beans because we had to pull strings as we snapped them. Tasted good from what I can remember.

[@dannytaylor6725]

I bought a few bags of black-eyed peas and pinto beans during the lock downs of the plague because it was all I could find to have for emergency but ended up not using them. So I planted without soaking them and they were both up and robust in a week. I was amazed how well they came up from the grocery store and also from being several years old.

[@terryhall2299]

This is awesome! A great way to extend your food storage.

[@wellnessoilsforlife5643]

We did this in the summer and planted more a few months ago. Had 2 harvests so far.

[@lillijunkert]

Thank you for showing from start to finish. So many gardening videos cut so much of the process out, it leaves me with too many questions and do not feel confident to attempt. Thank you for showing the mature plant, when to harvest, and the actual harvesting! You're an awesome teacher 👌

[@robertcotrell9810]

This past season was my first ever garden, and on a whim, I planted four pinto beans, and two sprouted and bore pods. Now I have the beginnings of my own seed stock! It was incredibly gratifying.

[@dwaynewladyka577]

Certain produce from the grocery store can have seeds, which be successfully planted. Others can't. It could be that they are modified so they can't be reproduced. I bought heirloom tomatoes from a Safeway grocery store once. I kept some of the seeds. When I planted them, they grew into very tall plants, which bore much tasty fruit. Cheers, Scott!

[@ciaragarrity6425]

I thought that certain gmo foods could be reproduced, like gmo corn. But it would not be good for genetic diversity of organic crops. And I suggest not growing corn you find at the supermarket. Always look for heirloom varieties like Indian Corn. Also look for the numbers on the produce stickers, if the code begins with an 8 it is gmo, if 9 then it’s organic, if 3 or 4 its non gmo, but not organic.

[@debrawhited3035]

Many heirloom tomatoes are "indeterminate" varieties - plants that just grow and grow (like a vine) forever, or as long as the the weather allows. That's why they were so tall. The other type of tomato variety/plant acts more like an annual - grow to a certain height, flower, set seed, then die.

[@dwaynewladyka577]

@@debrawhited3035 That's true.

[@yeevita]

It depends on the type of fruits and seeds. I have tried some seeds even from what would usually be considered immature fruit and sometimes and with some fruits, it works. So I always try. The worst that would happen is I get compost. I love trying supermarket stuff to grow.

[@happygardener28]

check the country of origin. fruit and vegetables that are imported are often treated (I'd heard with certain types of radiation) to slow spoiling and to prevent the seeds from sprouting. Also some fruits, and thus the seeds were not ripe when picked.

[@rebeccacory6569]

Yes. I've planted bagged dry beans. I've also planted seeds from a bag of discounted baby sweet peppers & they grew.

[@robertmccarthy1256]

I did this last spring and they did fantastic.

[@MQ-cw9qx]

Cook some of the different types of beans and then decide which ones you like the taste of. Helps the decision making.

[@jimintaos]

This was really interesting. A few years back I tried something similar. I bought a bag of pinto beans and found that less than a quarter of the beans germinated. Hmm. Then I went to a local organic foods store and bought about a pound of loose beans. I tried the same experiment and found that over 75 percent of the beans I selected sprouted. I then grew them side by side in pots and found that the packaged beans never really developed. Their color was bad, their leaves seemed stunted. The organic store beans went gangbusters. I am told that the commercial beans are sprayed with a herbicide to keep them from growing or getting moldy where as the organic store beans were not treated.

[@fredjudson524]

I ran a dry bean seed program for years. Age of beans will certainly affect germination. What you were told about herbicide spray on commercial beans is just a rumor.

[@paultemple5042]

My mother had a garden and grew Tomatoes, basil, beans, squash and some herbs . She always had plenty for the winter months.

[@bigoljoe1829]

It never occurred to me to try planting beans from the supermarket. We have a pile of red beans on our counter from a rogue child ripping open a bag I think I'm going to try to sprout some!

[@gayledaniel5901]

I always had a windowsill garden with my children in egg cartons when they were small. The pinto beans grew quickly and we then put them into bigger pots where they kept growing.

[@MelFirestone]

Thanks for sharing. We've grown store bought popcorn as well, great germination and harvest.

[@SandcastleDreams]

I bouhgt adzuki beans from an oriental grocery and planted a bunch of them. WOW! I'm still picking beans. You pick them as they turn brown about every 2 to 3 days. Depending on how much you planted, you can get about half a gallon of dried bean shells each time. And you really need a huge trellis for them because the vines just grow and grow. I did a cattle panel hoop trellis and that still didn't contain them. So, if you grow them give them plenty of room. They like the heat and they grow towards the afternoon sun. This is the first time I've grown any dry shell beans and I am totally amazed. I grew them to go in rice. I like beans and rice. So these little suckers are going to be a staple in my garden now.

[@heidimisfeldt5685]

🙂❤ Awesome. Green beans all summer long, and dry beans in the fall as plants die down. Homegrown has a much better flavor too.