2021 Little Easy Bean Network - Bean Lovers Come Discover Something New !

[flowerbug]

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Last year in 2020 I had posted a list of Robert Lobitz beans I was still missing from my collection on the Seed Savers Exchange Facebook page. Well the director of preservation told me he had most of those beans and graciously sent them to me. This bean is one of about 23 he sent me. I grew 20 of them this summer.

Yay! i'm so glad that has worked out. More Robert Lobitz Beans!!!!! and more Russ Crow beans! hahahahaha! we're crazy... in a good way. i think... hahahaha...

 

[Blue-Jay]

@Bluejay77 it is remarkable how dark that brown and white lima got. It's almost like a magic trick or science experiment. 'Watch the veins appear' as I wave this wand sort of thing. It still amazes me how much those type of lima beans look like diagrams of human lungs.

You are correct about the human lung looking similarities. I never thought of that before. I think the reason some beans take so long to darken is plant researchers have found a gene which causes seed coats to naturally darken more slowly than some other varieties. The gene has been named SD for slow darkening. As my bean show goes along I grew a few Robert Lobitz beans this year that darken slowly. At first harvest of the pods these beans were almost white, sort of a light ivory.

 

[Blue-Jay]

Yay! i'm so glad that has worked out. More Robert Lobitz Beans!!!!! and more Russ Crow beans! hahahahaha! we're crazy... in a good way. i think... hahahaha...

Ya I'm totally addicted. There is no cure for me. No rehabing or drugs will bring me back to what I was before I saw beans. LOL

 

[Blue-Jay]

Bluejay77's Big Bean Show
Day 2​

Berry's Best - Bush Dry.

A bean that I have known for a long time. Acquired from John Withee's Wanigan Associates around 1980. No known history on this bean. I have a copy of John Withee's notes that he used for his seed catalogs in the 1970's and 80's. I tried to find this bean there in hopes of at least finding out where his source was from. John never made an entry in his notes for this bean.



Berry's Best - Bush Dry

Bird Egg Blue - Bush Dry

This is an original named bean of mine from the early 1980's. Discovering it as an outcross then growing it until it became a true to type stable variety. It can sometimes have a longer season to mature. Tall plants 24 inches sometimes taller depending on the soil. One of our Network growers in Ontario, Canada has grown large quantities of this bean for Heritage Harvest Seeds in Manitoba who has it for sale in their catalog. Currently it's in a sold out status at Heritage Harvest.

 

[heirloomgal]

Bluejay77's Big Bean Show
Day 2​

Berry's Best - Bush Dry.

A bean that I have known for a long time. Acquired from John Withee's Wanigan Associates around 1980. No known history on this bean. I have a copy of John Withee's notes that he used for his seed catalogs in the 1970's and 80's. I tried to find this bean there in hopes of at least finding out where his source was from. John never made an entry in his notes for this bean.


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Berry's Best - Bush Dry

Bird Egg Blue - Bush Dry

This is an original named bean of mine from the early 1980's. Discovering it as an outcross then growing it until it became a true to type stable variety. It can sometimes have a longer season to mature. Tall plants 24 inches sometimes taller depending on the soil. One of our Network growers in Ontario, Canada has grown large quantities of this bean for Heritage Harvest Seeds in Manitoba who has it for sale in their catalog. Currently it's in a sold out status at Heritage Harvest.

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I really like Bird Egg Blue , I have some of that bean. I want to grow it again in 2022 because I don't have much of it. I've experienced what you're saying about it possibly being a longer season bean. I barely got it to maturity last year; it's one of those beans that I will start as transplants in the future even though it's a bush because of that. It is such a pretty bean!

 

[heirloomgal]

Probably the last of the bean photos I have for this year.

Outlaw - bush

Coco Rubico - bush

True Red Cranberry - pole

Migliorucci - bush

Fawcett's Pole

Atwater - bush

Maine Sunset - bush, seeds collected were considerably larger than the seed planted

Cornplanter Purple - 2 types grew from original black seed

Pod from black seeds -

Cornplanter Purple, 2nd type & the most productive, very much so. The dry pods were beige speckled with purple and much larger than the solid purple pods.

 

[flowerbug]

Ya I'm totally addicted. There is no cure for me. No rehabing or drugs will bring me back to what I was before I saw beans. LOL

do you remember which one it was that first got you going or just gardening in general and you really liked eating fresh or wax beans? for me it was gardening in general and that i really liked wax beans so that when i came here and could finally start gardening again the first garden seeds i purchased were a generic green bean and a wax bean and then from there it was game on.

yesterday i checked the Yed plants for any pods i might have missed that had seeds that were dry enough to survive the frosts without damage. i got a few dozen and some that will work for my own uses so it increased how many i can send out to other people. there were a lot of mushy fermenting seeds/pods that will get turned under. i should have gone out and picked them before it got too cold. dumby moi.

 

[Blue-Jay]

do you remember which one it was that first got you going or just gardening in general and you really liked eating fresh or wax beans? for me it was gardening in general and that i really liked wax beans so that when i came here and could finally start gardening again the first garden seeds i purchased were a generic green bean and a wax bean and then from there it was game on.

I've always like gardening in general. I had gardens in high school. What really got me on to beans was when I acquired a copy of John Withee's Wanigan Associates heirloom bean catalog in 1978. I had been raising a small number of beans before I got his catalog. His bean book was the real catalyst that made the bean bug explode in my head.

I'm curious has anyone seen the John Withee link on my website when you look at the African Premier bean on the first page of beans. Seed Savers Exchange did the research and the article. The article is a great read. If you click on John Withee in yellow letters you will go to the article entitled "The Life And Legacy Of The Bean Man".

 

[flowerbug]

I've always like gardening in general. I had gardens in high school. What really got me on to beans was when I acquired a copy of John Withee's Wanigan Associates heirloom bean catalog in 1978. I had been raising a small number of beans before I got his catalog. His bean book was the real catalyst that made the bean bug explode in my head.

is there a version of that on-line any place? hmm, i guess i could search for it...

no year on the item, but here's a version of it:

https://www.seedsavers.org/site/img/withee/John%20Withee%20-%2011.pdf

 

[Triffid]

Just a note before I forget, regarding the bean 'Angel' I mentioned on my first post on this thread.
Turns out it's exactly the same as Monstrance. The red flowers in the description and photo from the Heritage Seed Library were incorrect (they haven't really explained how that happened). @Zeedman Sorry to disappoint, I know you were intrigued. As was I! Sad day when I realised they were not going to be awash with salmon blooms.