journey11
Garden Master
I'm waiting on the last of Crystal Wax to dry down but other than that my network beans are about done. I prefer to save seed from nice clean pods which wasn't a problem for the rest but Crystal Wax did not do especially good in my garden. I do have some later pods that look nicer so I'll wait till they dry down to pack up my seeds. Here is what they looked like last night.
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Burgundy Bolitas and Refugee are pretty much finished except for an off-type in Refugee. It is later, has a larger vine and larger straighter pods.
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Here is what they looked like as I worked on them last night. They Crystal Wax off-type did much much better in my garden with a single vine out producing all the rest. You can't tell in the photo but the Refugee off-type has grey mottling while the CW is jet black. I'm calling them Escapee and Crystal Black.
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I was watching Antiques Road Show last night (wile shelling out seed) where people bring in stuff to get it appraised. A fellow came had a collection of cans found under an old house in Arizona. He said they were dated 1876, the appraiser said that was also the year when colorful paper labels were first used on cans. I paused the TV and took this picture.
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Last is a shot of my Little Brown Greasy beans, a favorite of ours. Always reliable and productive as well as tasty both as snaps and dry. You can see there on the bottom ones the hot dry weather is affecting the younger pods. Hate to see that but there are plenty anyway.
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Your Little Brown Greasy beans make such handsome pods. I've got several Appalachian heirlooms, some are greasy, some cut-short, etc. Would you be interested in trading me later in the fall? This year I'm growing out Alice Whitis, Nickell, Sammy Bean, White Creaseback and White Wax Pink Tip. They're blooming now, but I'll post pics when they make pods.
How neat is that antique can of Refugee beans! A little piece of history you caught there.