2022 Little Easy Bean Network - We Are Beans Without Borders

[Blue-Jay]

Blue Jay's 2022 Bean Show - Day 11​

Genesis - Pole Lima - 2022

From a lima collector in Iowa Curt Burroughs. Very productive slightly smaller beans than Florida Speckled but a bit thicker. This year was my third grow out of Genesis and it produced from 6 plants 22 ounces of beans (623.69 gm) This year every single pod was picked absolutely green. I dried them in my house on sheets of cardboard cut from old boxes. This is a beautiful bean and I dearly love it.


Genesis - Pole Lima

 

[Blue-Jay]

Blue Jay's 2022 Bean Show - Day 11​

Georgs'e Bean - Pole Dry - 2022

Purchased this seed from DeFlora in Germany in 2013. This year was the fifth time I've grown the bean. Very productive and usually produces nice quality beans. An old baking bean long time ago in England. This year production of beans was down but from six plants I got 11.6 ounces (328.85 gm).


George's Bean - Pole Dry

 

[Blue-Jay]

Blue Jay's 2022 Bean Show - Day 11​

Gila River - Pole Snap- 2022

This bean is later than most of the pole varieties I grow. I usually wind up clipping the vines from the root system after the pods have been well filled with seed for awhile to speed up the drying process. Said to be a snap bean but I've never tried them that way. Native bean from Arizona. Pods this year were harvest very, very green and dried for about three weeks on sheets of cardboard. Total seed gathered this season from 6 plants was 15.9 ounces (450.75 gm)


Gila River - Pole Snap

 

[flowerbug]

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Where Galloway Came From 2007 Seed in 2015....Galloway - Pole Dry - 2022

i've never had any beans with that pattern (olive eye) repeat themselves or become stable. they always seem to be on the way to something else. i've seen them about half a dozen times so far as the results of crosses of various kinds that i've not done myself (crosses here are still done by the bees or Mama Nature).

 

[heirloomgal]

I have never seen what Andrew Kent looks like. I googled the bean and still can't come up with an image of the bean. When a bean cross goes back looking like the mother I call these throwbacks. I also wonder if the genetics is exactly the same as Andrew Kent. Maybe I should send you a few beans and you can grow a couple side by side and compare them.

Here is the original seed that Will Bonsall sent me. He wrote on the packet and called them rouges from Andrew Kent. He also wrote horticultural pattern reversed mostly maroon. I would think Will had enough experience that he would have recognized a reverse of Andrew Kent and a real off type. What do you get with Andrew Kent reverse seeds.

There are a bunch of the Will Bonsall outcrosses that I've been growing that I have not yet put on the network pages I should work them in sometime.

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Andrew Kent Off Type From Will bonsall. The seed was from 2013
when he sent it to me in 2015 and was never in cold storage.

I went and found my beans from the 2020 grow out so you could see them.

 

[Blue-Jay]

I went and found my beans from the 2020 grow out so you could see them.

Do you get any reverses from this bean and what do they look like?

 

[Blue-Jay]

Blue Jay's 2022 Bean Show - Day 12​

Gold Creek Beauty - Bush Dry- 2022

A Robert Lobitz named bean that he released through a listing in the Seed Savers Exchange yearbook about 20 years ago. This year was the third time I grew the bean and it seemed moderately productive. I don't think the soil it was grown in was beneficial for this particular bean.


Gold Creek Beauty - Bush Dry

 

[Blue-Jay]

Blue Jay's 2022 Bean Show - Day 12​

Graines De Cafe - Pole Dry- 2022

This bean was acquired from my bean trading friend in Austria in 2014. It is very productive and grows well as long as the soil is prepared well. Total seed harvested from 8 plants was 24 ounces (680.38 gm).


Graines De Cafe - Pole Dry

 

[Blue-Jay]

Blue Jay's 2022 Bean Show - Day 12​

Hashuli - Pole Dry- 2022

Purchased from Baker Creek Seeds in 2015. This is another bean that produces nice quality and beautiful looking beans. Joseph Simcox discovered the bean in a market in Tiblisi Georgia. This year was the fifth year that I've grown the bean.


Hashuli - Pole Dry

 

[Blue-Jay]

Blue Jay's 2022 Bean Show - Day 12​

Hemelvaartboontje - Pole Dry- 2022

Purchased this bean from DeFlora in Germany in 2013. This year was the fifth time I've grown the bean. It has been known in Australia for over a hundred years. It was a poor year for seed production this year for this bean.


Hemelvaartboontje - Pole Dry