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

[heirloomgal]

A miracle has happened, and I have figured out how how to 'attach files'...

So, here are some pictures from this summer's selections. I'm super happy about the turnout because we had an unusually early and very, very wet fall. I lost some to rot, but not as much as I thought I might. The bean profile picture I inserted above 'heirloomgal' is Black Canterbury Dwarf. This bean was only beginning to produce it's green beans when all the others were gone to seed. I thought for certain no seeds would be harvested. So, I was amazed when the first frost hit that there was so many seeds fully mature. I collected a full jam jar from one row. I kinda consider it my 'good fortune bean' now.

Kabarika Bush Bean

Jumbo Roma

Low's Champion

Soisson Vert

Sadie's Horse Bean

Sadie's Horse Bean (comes in several coat patterns)

Will continue photos after I double check the images are coming up correctly, many tabs are appearing on my lower screen that I can't remove, not sure if this is correct....

 

[heirloomgal]

Please bear with me, I did not do everything correctly in my last post, I'm gonna try again

Koronis Purple

Pizarecka Zlutoluske

Andrew Kent

Bumblebee (2 pics)

Sequoia

 

[heirloomgal]

Last one for the evening...

Tamila

Heritage Dore
(how did I not see that darn thread in the camera lens??)

Drew's Dandy

Jiminez

Mrociumiere

Jesse Fisk & Berta Telaska

Mary Ison's Little Brown Bunch

Jacob's Cattle Gold


To be continued.....

 

[baymule]

@heirloomgal you are doing a great job of posting pictures and you have some beautiful beans!

 

[flowerbug]

@heirloomgal looking good there, in the first post of pictures you can go back and edit to remove that link at the bottom for that image, just click on More options in the menu at the top of the post to get it to show the Toggle BB Code.

 

[Blue-Jay]

@heirloomgal,

Really quality seeds in your photos. No oddly shapped, or shriveled sunken in places on the seeds. All well filled out and very uniform looking in size too. Very nice you know how to grow quality seed.

Amazing all the different fabric patterns you have to use as a background for the beans.

 

[Ridgerunner]

I had not noticed those different fabrics. There has to be a story there. @heirloomgal are you perhaps a quilter? Or are you creating that fabric?

 

[flowerbug]

well i was so jealous of seeing some nice pictures posted i figured i should try to see if i could get a picture today:

this is a child of Pheasant so for the moment i'm just calling it Spotted Pheasant Child. don't know yet if it is stable or not. will know in a couple years.

the spotted pattern likely came from Yellow Eye (aka Molasses Face) selections of spotted beans i've been planting for years. Pheasant may have came from a cross from Top Notch and something else.

i did play some with the colors in this image. just messing around and trying something out to see how it worked. the result is an image which really brings out the patterns and shades in this bean that you would not see looking at it without really having some magnification. luckily the camera picked it up an then the program allowed me to enhance it. if i posted the regular version it would be more accurate to what you'd see holding it in your hand, but not as dramatic. so is that cheating? yes! i'll admit it. i need to edit my bean page on the website though to reflect that i've played with this image, my current setup is a bit broken so it will not get updated immediately on the website until my next upload (which i dunno when i'll be doing ... ).

the first picture is the thumbnail and the 2nd is the larger version for those who want to look closer.

 

[heirloomgal]

you are doing a great job of posting pictures and you have some beautiful beans!

Thank you ! I'm having a bit of a hard time trying to figure how to quote, and post pictures properly. Thank you for your patience!

 

[heirloomgal]

Really quality seeds in your photos. No oddly shapped, or shriveled sunken in places on the seeds. All well filled out and very uniform looking in size too. Very nice you know how to grow quality seed.

Amazing all the different fabric patterns you have to use as a background for the beans.

Thank you! I've had really excellent luck with beans in my garden, despite the mistakes I've made over the years with spacing and locations, and sometimes too little watering in the early years. The Jacob's Cattle Gold I posted was the lowest quality beans I harvested his year, because I grew them in a highly raised 3X3 container and it was hard to keep up with the water and high temperatures. So they suffered constantly from dryness no matter how hard I tried. Yet, I grew those Sadie's Horse Beans and the Heritage Dore beans in the sandiest soil in my yard, very sandy, and I'm surprised that they really don't show it. And Sadie's is a giant bean, the biggest I've ever seen. The soil in that area was so dry all the time. Makes me wonder if, when it comes to shrivelling, there is a factor in there besides just insufficient hydration?

I hope I'm using the 'quote' function properly.....I might make a few mistakes before I get good at this