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Default Storing Fresh Green Beans

On 11/18/2003 2:57 PM, in article
, "PENMART01"
> opined:

> In article >,

> (j.j.) writes:
>
>> (PENMART01) say:
>>> levelwave writes:

>>
>>>> I just placed them in the fridge still in the produce bag from the
>>>> supermarket... not exactly air tight... Fresh Green Beans is something
>>>> fairly new to my diet...

>>
>>> You still haven't had a fresh green bean... if you bought em at a

>> stupidmarket
>>> they ain't fresh.

>>
>> That could explain the rapid decay -- I got some green beans from my
>> sister's garden over the summer, and they after three days, they were
>> still green and perky. I didn't store them in any special manner either;
>> IIRC, they were in a paper bag...

>
> Green beans are one of the easiest of crops to grow; a 20 foot row will supply
> more than enough to supply a family of four every day from late spring til
> late
> summer.
>


It is a royal pain in the butt to trim the stems though, any tricks oh wise
one?