As we begin our thirteenth year. I think of all the wonderful bean varieties and varieties of everything humans usually grow for themselves. All that we are blessed with today. How marvelous it is that we can experience them. I think if most of what we have today was if not saved in the past...
Hello everyone and hello 2024 ! We are now into our 12th season of this thread with great growers and contributors. Thank you all who have become part of our history and those who grace our pages with their current contributions. I think we all have so much enjoyment and pleasure in what we all...
Here we are a brand new year. This is the beginning of our 11th year and the start of our second decade. I hope I will still be here at the end of this decade. Yours truely (me) just turned 77 years on December 22nd. Who would like to take over if I am not able. Well hopefully there is plenty of...
Yes how nice it is that we are entering our 10th year. I think this is a well read bean thread. We are a number of things. A gardening group, seed savers, bean growers keeping all types of traditional beans viable, and hopefully safe from extinction. We also keep and grow outcrossed beans and...
Wow season number 9 here we go again. A new year for us to make more new bean history. I think this has been a great meeting place for those who grow and love beans. Some of us are itching to get the new gardening season going. However we will have to slog through this winter first and wait for...
We are now into our 8th season. There are many here just itching to get the new gardening season going. We hope if you are just finding this thread for the first time. You will find a great family of bean growers here and interesting conversation about beans. Some people have told me they have...
Wow ! Can you believe we are beginning our seventh (7th) season on our bean group here on theeasygarden.com. For those who haven't gotten into the bean world yet. There truely is a thrill of discovery waiting for the uninitiated. Beans seem to have endless variations of color, shape, and seed...
Hi Everyone! Here we are into our 6th year. Incredible, and our numbers of grower helpers grows each year. Hope last years growers will all be back and hope a bunch of new growers will join us.
For those who join us for the very first time. You can go to my website...
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Our bean network begins again today. We are into our 5th year.
For those who want to join us for the very first time. You can go to my website http://www.abeancollectorswindow.com and click on the yellow link near the top of the page marked "Network". The text there will...
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A warm welcome back to our previous seasons growers! Here we are 2016. Our 4th season of the Little Easy Bean Network. It's very simple how this bean network works. I'll post photos below of beans that need to be grown out to create some renewed seed as bean...
Hello everyone on the Little Easy Bean Network. The new 2016 thread will be up probably Monday or Tuesday. Tomorrow Friday April 1st I'll be going to Knoxville, Tennessee for a seed swap and doing a half hour talk on probably my bean collecting over the years at a Baptist Church in Oakridge, Tn...
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The time has come already for season three of the Little Easy Bean Network. Last year we were growing out a colletion of beans I had obtained unsolicited from a South African Grower. The work of renewing this collection is still unfinished so we...
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Welcome to season two of the Little Easy Bean Network. My large bean collection served last year in 2013 as the focal point of a little network of gardeners who love beans. Beaniac as I have been called. Back in the 1970’s there had been another bean...
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I have a large bean collection and have talked to some of the active members of this forum about the bean network formed by a fellow named John Withee back in the 1970's called Wanigan Associates. He had a network of gardeners ( about 400 ) that would...
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Someone had told me about a black and white seeded Logan Giant bean. Can't find the post again, but I would like to trade a bean for that one, or purchase it from the grower who has it. Hope whoever has the bean will see this post