HARVESTING DRY BEANS
Michigan State University Extension 
Preserving Food Safely - 01600678 
08/03/99 

Dry beans, such as kidney beans, navy pea beans, 
garbanzo beans (chickpeas), black-eye peas etc., should be 
harvested when pods are dry, brittle and brown and the 
beans are hard and have their characteristic coloration. 
An easy way to tell when beans are mature enough to be 
picked is to wait until the pods start to shatter or split 
open. If pods are leathery, the beans are not ready to 
harvest. 


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