My first year trying the Cherokee trail of tears. I’ve seen several comments that others were thinking of trying them so here is my evaluation for what it’s worth. Sorry about the video ratio. Recently the “beast” decided to override all of my settings and has upgraded and updated everything on my computer without consulting me causing me no end trouble. All these damn “smart” people need to quit deciding they know whats best for me before I hunt down as many as possible and repeatedly kick them in the Nads!
VIDEO: Evaluating the Cherokee Trail Of Tears Pole Bean
My first year trying the Cherokee trail of tears. I’ve seen several comments that others were thinking of trying them so here is my evaluation for what it’s worth. Sorry about the video ratio. Recently the “beast” decided to override all of my settings and has upgraded and updated everything on my computer without consulting me causing me no end trouble. All these damn “smart” people need to quit deciding they know whats best for me before I hunt down as many as possible and repeatedly kick them in the Nads!
Nice evaluation of this good tasting bean variety!
I`ve noticed my Cherokee trials also have some procentage beans that`s stringless. The bean plants are somehow suffering in the heat wave and drought here, but the trial beans seem to tolerate the heat slightly better than the others I grow this year. Already had a good harvest from them, however, they seem to have a bigger crop in more cooler summers than this one. Our hottest summer in 150 years. And with the sun baking on them for 18 hours a day, they take a lot of beating.
Hope my garden gets a bit cooler weather type the coming months. Runnerbeans are throwing many of their beans due to the hot temperature.
All the best.
Halvor.
Very nice beans! I like your approach to taking care of them too.
Interesting info' ya share with us Jay, i had no idea these wonderful green beans existed, i will be checkin' 'em out,…i notice you don't cut them with a knife, with your fingers, they must be really stringless cause the other varieties ya need a sharp paring knife to cut 'em and cook 'em,….ah,…nothin' like once cooked, cookin' 'em with scrambled egg and some 'recaudo'(chopped 'mater, onion and cilantro)and eatin' them like a sandwich with 'chapata'(me thinks its a corruption of the word ciabata)bread! Thumbs up and greetings from a sunny central plateau! 🙂
ten foot is a little high to pick your beans. I use a horizontal trellis at seven foot and they will grow that away.
Nice looking beans and it looks like you were not getting full length strings off of them. Our green beans have grown more than any other and are just setting flowers. It will be a bit harder to pick them because they are really thick. This time last year we were already picking them. Everything seems to be behind this year. Bernard
Thanks for that, Jay. A couple years ago I bought a packet of them but I ended up giving them to someone because I had a lot of other types of bean seeds at the time. I'm going to have to get some more.
Wow 10 feet high beans! Could you prune them if you wanted them shorter?
Thanks for sharing,
Scarlett
Nice looking bean Jay..
Have the blue lake climbing & Simba bush beans in at the moment..
Cheers mate
Thanks for sharing! I'm hoping to turn my backyard into a large garden and grow as many heirloom varieties as possible. How do you eat these (like regular green beans? or dried beans) and could you describe what they taste like? Thanks and you can check out the progress of my garden if you like. I just started a blog to document it. https://gatewaygarden.wordpress.com
Thanks for sharing .I,m growing these this year : )
This is my second year growing Trail of Tears beans. like you said… At least a ten-foot pole. I have 6 foot poles, some of them are close to a tree, they grew up the pole and now they're growing up the tree, they're at least twelve feet high.
Hey Brother, I was actually looking for info on planting the Trail Of Tears beans that you sent…and the first video I find is this one from yo!!
Thanks for the info on these. I am a bit late on planting them, I still need to build the trellis.
Are the seeds you sent from this bunch?
30 minutes cooking time seems a bit excessive. Do they actually need that long or do you prefer a soft cooked bean? I've never heard of adding apple cider vinegar to the cooking water before. Is it supposed to enhance the bean flavor or do something for the cooking process?
Years ago I got some Cherokee Trail of Tears from a seed exchange at a book fair. They were just a few beans that I planted for more beans. Well this spring, I planted some of these beans & was I surprised at how they took over the little plot where they were planted. The pods are beautiful, the beans are beautiful. I am going to try to grow some of them in a large container that has very heavy wrought iron fencing immediately adjacent.