Beans are so easy! (and much more fun than watching blight spread across my tomato plants)

[Curmudgeoness]

6. I am always amazed at mechanical harvesting.

I am at a loss to understand how a machine can do such a clean job of separating the bean (or corn or whatever) from the rest of the plant. That is pretty slick.

But when you talk about how much more beans you have after the first harvest, it seems such a shame to only have the one harvest. I just bought some beans at the Amish produce stand yesterday. I assume they were hand picked, but you never know.