2019 Little Easy Bean Network - Come And Reawaken The Thrill Of Discovery

[flowerbug]

@Bluejay77 Thank you! it will help for sure.

 

[Blue-Jay]

@Lady0bug,

I'm not going to grow Eden Prairie this year, but if you could send some new seed in the autumn then I could use that for growing perhaps next year.

 

[Lady0bug]

@Lady0bug,

I'm not going to grow Eden Prairie this year, but if you could send some new seed in the autumn then I could use that for growing perhaps next year.

Will do!

 

[Blue-Jay]

Well the list I was going to put up later in the day wound up being a few days later. Any how I got this of Bush beans and semi runners and few more pole beans. No photos but some are on the website from A-Z pages. I never took photos on a lot of these as I stuck them right into the freezer when they came. Most of but not all of these seeds appearance could be improved by a grow out. When the new seed comes back I'll photo them and include them on the Network page. There will a Network Page 6 added.

Bush Beans

Black Cattle
Black Valentine
Bomba
Buckskin Girl
Maggies Cresent
Rose D' Eyragues - Small Cranberry type
Larson Family Swedish - Cranberry type
Peau de Wache Noir - Only about 4 seeds in the sample looks like a Chocolate pattern in Black
Peau de Wache Normande - Same pattern as the above but brown and white
Davis - Wax snap bean
Prince - Red Cranberry type. Snap bean that needs to be picked early to avoid strings.
Lila Stuart - Dry bean
Best Of All Wax - snap bean
China Yellow - Round light yellow dry bean
Improved Golden Wax
Fisher - Pennsylvania Amish bean
Schoko Flecken - Pretty round seed sort of almost looks like a small Maria Zeller from Germany.

Semi Runners

Hidatsa Shield
Brazil Little Black - Robert Lobitz named bean that was lifted from a mixed packet of beans he got from a ........................source in Brazil then named by him. Looks like a black turtle type bean.
Ojibwe Black - Another black turtle type bean said to have been grown by the Ojibwe nation in .......................Minnestota.

Pole Beans

1,500 Year Old Cave - Looks like Anasazi bean.
Ottis Stuart - Pole Snap bean - Journey11
Blaugraue - Dry bean with bluish looking round seeds.
Blaue Wolf Egg - Runner bean I got from a German guy. Shouldn't be grown in a hot climate Pheaseolus............................Coccineus.
Munachedda Pale - Rounded Italian bean white with light pink area about the shade of Cottontail.
Splash Trout - Doesn't have trout pattern at all but looks like Lynnfield.
Schiefergold - probably a wax bean I got from Germany.
Adams Family Six Weeks - Snap bean
Frost - Looks like Bobolink
Frijol Rojo De Seda (Red Silk Bean) - Produces solid bright pinkish red pods as the seed begins to .............................become mature.

 

[saritabee]

Thanks for posting the bush beans! I think I'm finally decided...

Network Beans:
Galloway; Frost; Schoko Flecken; Lila Stuart; Ojibwe Black; and Night Star if you have it (it looked like it was on the website as 2013 seed, but let me know if I should pick something else).

Extras: Buxton Buckshot, Bird Egg Blue, and Berry's Best.

Thanks again, Russ -- I'm super excited for the next bean season!

I still need to post my bean photo show from last year... hopefully in the next week or two I'll be able to catch up with photos. Been renovating the living room all winter, but thankfully the end of that project is finally on the horizon!

 

[flowerbug]

@Bluejay77 here are my initial selections. please don't send them right away as if like last time there are any left that you'd like to send along we can do it as one box instead of multiple shipments.


Bush Beans

Bomba
Improved Golden Wax

Semi Runners

Hidatsa Shield

Pole Beans

Ottis Stuart - Pole Snap bean a lady in Australia sent to me.
Blaugraue - Dry bean with bluish looking round seeds.
Adams Family Six Weeks - Snap bean


do you have a description of?

Fisher - Pennsylvania Amish bean

i'll wait on putting down the bonus beans until the list is complete, but for sure if you can keep a few Frost seeds for me i'd like that to be one of them. thank you again! this is fun and i'm looking forwards to the 2nd year with the network.

 

[Blue-Jay]

@flowerbug,

Fisher

This versatile and productive bush bean with indigenous roots was first cultivated by Algonquian peoples before finding its way into European gardens and those of the Pennsylvania Dutch community. This variety that was stewarded by the Fisher family is the same bean described by von Martens in 1869 as Eierbohn (Einbohn), or All-in-One Bean. Used as a shelly when very young, Fisher is traditionally grown as a dry bean and served prepared in hearty winter dishes such as Mrs. Higgins' classic cassoulet whose recipe appeared in the 1887 The Home Cook Book:

The bean has rounded light buff colored seed with a prominent purplish eye ring.

 

[flowerbug]

@Bluejay77

ok, thank you, then it sounds perfect for me to add to the list.


Bush Beans

Bomba
Fisher
Improved Golden Wax


Semi Runners

Hidatsa Shield


Pole Beans

Ottis Stuart - Pole Snap bean a lady in Australia sent to me.
Blaugraue - Dry bean with bluish looking round seeds.
Adams Family Six Weeks - Snap bean

 

[baymule]

@flowerbug,

Fisher

This versatile and productive bush bean with indigenous roots was first cultivated by Algonquian peoples before finding its way into European gardens and those of the Pennsylvania Dutch community. This variety that was stewarded by the Fisher family is the same bean described by von Martens in 1869 as Eierbohn (Einbohn), or All-in-One Bean. Used as a shelly when very young, Fisher is traditionally grown as a dry bean and served prepared in hearty winter dishes such as Mrs. Higgins' classic cassoulet whose recipe appeared in the 1887 The Home Cook Book:

The bean has rounded light buff colored seed with a prominent purplish eye ring.

How did you find this cookbook? Is it possible to get reprints of it?

 

[flowerbug]

How did you find this cookbook? Is it possible to get reprints of it?

many of the quotes on his site seem to come from this article (or related ones):

https://www.motherearthnews.com/organic-gardening/vegetables/heirloom-bean-varieties-zewz1302zsch

this is also good reading:

https://www.motherearthnews.com/diy/history-of-beans-zb0z11zsch