I have my first food garden this year, and I planted a few different variaties of beans - cowpeas, limas, maybe black beans, and regular green beans - *I think*, lol.

See, I labelled them, but the sharpie I used seems to have etched off of the plastic knives I used. Lesson Learned.

I also threw away the seed packets. 'Nother lesson learned.

My question - My kids love boiled green beans, and just came in and presented me with handfuls of the things, and I can't for the life of me tell which is which.

I seem to remember reading that all beans will be edible in the "snap bean" stage - is this true? Like I said - I *think* I have the varieties right, and I would love to use them.

Also - operating under the assumption that I may have forgotten something that I planted - is there any bean that would *hurt* us in the snap bean stage?

Yep - you can laugh at me, it's funny. I just hate to waste food if I can aviod it.