The University of Illinois Extension service says you should harvest beans when the pods are firm and have reached their full length.

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We have string beans.

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Perhaps, alternatively, Alamoudi might have spilled the beans about his friends in the Brotherhood's vast North American infrastructure.

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Simmered all day in a cast-iron pot with a big slug of fatback, brown beans have warmed the bodies and souls of many hardworking men and women of the Appalachian coalfields.

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