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I have a fellow in Iowa growing pole beans for me this year. I sent him about 35 varieties that I was running low on. I'm having him grow another snap bean that I got from him last year. Below is a photo of it's pods drying. He will be harvesting some of the dry pods this weekend. I will...

Planting your Louisiana and Rattlesnake is like planting two or three white seeded varieties right next to each other. Those two beans in pod and seed are I would say are nearly exactly the same. Anyway I couldn't tell them apart if the seed was mixed. Have you checked your Rattlesnake and...

Summer Bean Show 2024 Vol. #19 Bean #39 has a kind of neat seed coat. Not a lot of gray beans around. Lima #40 is a real stand out. Bean #42 reminds me of a Guy Dirix bean that I think I acquired earlier this year. Bean #39................................................................Bean...

I would say if you have any dry bean pods at the base of your bean plants when you want to water your herbal plants. The water will probably affect the dry pods the same as rain. They might absorb enough water to either germinate the seed inside the bean pods or make them look stained. I take it...

Wow ! That is incredible. It would be nice to find out more about that bean. I'll have to ask bean buyers if they have ever heard of this bean when I go to the seed swap in Berea, Kentuckky in November. Love all your photos of your gardens. Just a thrill to look at all your bean plants.

Summer Bean Show 2024 Vol. #19 I had a bean that looked exactly like Bean #36. Same color and pattern, but I never could get it to stablize. Just keep throwing of new seed coats. Bean #35 and #37 look like they could be related and have coming out of the same crossing. Just different colors...

@heirloomgal those are very nice looking beans. So light and bright and now we can really see what they look like when they are new. I will be using those for a new photo to replace the current photo. Oh and the Kruger's Speckled Caseknife are so beautiful looking too. Those will also be used...

Summer Bean Show 2024 Vol. #18 The pattern on bean 33 sort of reminds me of Rose Creek Beauty with a different color and seed shape. Bean #33..................................................................Bean #34

Hi @frijolymoly, A big bean welcome to the Little Easy Bean Network. So glad that you finally found your way here.

Also a word about the numbers on the packets in the freezer in those boxes. When finding a packet of seed that I want. I know from my computer list what box and what number in the box where that variety is located. It is easier and faster to follow numbers than it is to follow variety names in...

I'm harvesting small amounts of pods each time I pick dry pods. I place them on the styro plates which are all labeled with variety name, growth habit, position in the row and the plot they were grown. Often times those pods are ready to be shelled in a few more days. So I shell them out and...

Since some of our newer growers that come to this thread and wonder about organizing their collections and drying and storage. I'll show and tell how I organize mine. First I harvest dry pods or nearly dry pods about every single day since I have my small backyard plots but also two large...

Summer Bean Show 2024 Vol. #17 Bean #31 now here is a beautiful shade of purple. Bean #32 I thought had a pretty interesting and unique eye patch Bean #31................................................................Bean #32

Summer Bean Show 2024 Vol. #16 Someone sent me this bean #30 a number of years ago under the name "Temple Of Peace" My seed now is probably too old to grow. Bean #29...........................................................Bean #30

In the book Beans Of New York this bean is also known as Longfellow. The book states it is called Nain Gris Maraicher in France which interprets into English as "Dwarf Gray Market Garden" An old variety grown also in the U.S. Brought to the U.S. by the Henderson Company in 1895. The bean has...

I heard back by email today from the person I got Olga's Yugoslavian from and she says it's a bush bean. I will update the website to reflect that.

Summer Bean Show 2024 Vol. #15 Two more beautiful limas. A little more eye candy for you to enjoy. Bean #27...........................................................Bean #28

I had to look up on my records to see who grew this bean last. There were two growers in the same year of 2018. One grower in Maine never reported anything unusual about it's growth. I'm going to email this Maine grower to see if they are still maintaining Stayley's Star and ask how they have...

Summer Bean Show 2024 Vol. #14 Bean on the left looks like Bosnian that hasn't darkened much yet. The bean on the right sure has a unique seed coat with a single black stripe on the bottom of the seed opposite the eye. I would like to grow a bean that looks like that. Bean...

To me that plant that is wilting doesn't look mouldy. Do you have voles where you live. I had a vole attack about 5 or 6 years ago. They went up one single row of beans and ate the roots out and killed all the plants in the row. I haven't been bothered by them since.