2022 Little Easy Bean Network - We Are Beans Without Borders

[Blue-Jay]

Blue Jay's 2022 Bean Show - Day 30​

Weaver - Pole Snap - 2022

I had grown this variety back in the early 1980's and listed it a number of times back then in the Seed Savers Exchange yearbook. It is still to this day another of my favorite pole snap beans. Very productive with white blossoms of 7 to 8 inch long flattened stringless green pods. This year was my fifth grow out since 2013 of the bean. Developed by the C.H Weaver Company of Brawley, California probably in the 1930's. Dry seed said to make a good soup bean. 8 plants this year produced 29.30 ounces (830.64 gm). This year I had a celebrity request of this bean as author, food historian and owner of the Roughwood Seed Collection Willam Woys Weaver requested this seed from me in April of this year. He now shows Weaver on the Roughwood Center For Heritage Seedways by clicking on Shop then load more until you find Weaver near the bottom of that page. I have not had a single off type seed from Weaver since growing the bean the past decade.


Weaver - Pole Snap

 

[flowerbug]

Blue Jay's 2022 Bean Show - Day 30​

Victoria Brown Eyes Off Type 4- Bush Dry - 2022

This was the fourth segregation found in 2021 from a 2020 Victoria Brown Eyes Off Type seed. It produced two segregatins of it's own shown in photos 2 and 3. This grow out produced 10.20 ounces of seed (289.16 gm). Segregation 2 was closest to a pink Victoria Brown Eyes with a red eye figure that I could find in this grow out.

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Victoria Brown Eyes Off Type 4-2122...........................Victoria Brown Eyes Off Type 4 -2122 - 122

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Victoria Brown Eyes Off Type 4 -2122 - 222

VBE has been a pretty good bean here (for a larger bean) but i have yet to eat many of them fresh. that was my goal for this season - to give them a chance by growing a lot of them and eating some fresh and also to see how they would work as a bulk bean in the two larger gardens outside the fence.

they were planted later and the deer cleaned them out completely in the North Garden, but i had a pretty nice crop in the NE Garden and that let me put seeds into the seed library at the library again to replenish the stock there and i'll also have a few samples for the seed swap, but i now don't have enough dry beans to make an isolated cooking trial of them so they'll be part of a bean soup cook sometime.

i've had a few with different markings and stripes and haven't segregated those out as long as i get a close enough color and the brown eye figure.

 

[flowerbug]

No, we're already situated for greenbeans and heat tolerance isn't a quality that is needed here.

For dry beans, I'm looking for earliness, ability to thrive in cool weather, exceptional flavor, and productivity.

get a sample from @Bluejay77 of Purple Dove and Fort Portal Jade with your next network request. both of these are early, productive in cooler weather and are good dry beans, i'm not sure if you like mild pinto flavor, but that is Purple Dove. i've not yet had enough FPJ to cook them but i think they're likely to be good eating. PD also is a great fresh eating purple bean so you have a multipurpose bean from that one. FPJ is only a dry bean.

 

[Blue-Jay]

Blue Jay's 2022 Bean Show - Day 30​

White Lion - Bush Dry - 2022

I had always wanted to stabalize a white dry bean so I found this one in Goose Cranberry in 2014. Grown in 2016 with no segregations and grown in 2017 with one segregation and none this year in 2022 but possibly one since I found a shorter more oval seed among it of the same color. Still not sure which bean will become my offical White Lion. Named after the two white marble lions that stand on either side of the beginning of the Bridge Of Lions where Cathedral Place meets the bridge on it's east end in St. Augustine, Florida. Total seed produced from about 11 plants was 13.75 ounces (389.80 gm). First photo is White Lion and second photo are the different shaped seed found in it's grow out this past summer.


White Lion - Bush Dry.............................................................White Lion - Bush Dry Oval Seed 2022

 

[Branching Out]

Thank you Meadow-- I located the presentation on YouTube (interestingly it did not come up use just 'Carol Deppe', so I likely would not have stumbled across it without your recommendation. I will try to sit down and watch that tonight. At the moment I am reading her book on how to breed your own vegetables and really enjoying it. She does a fine job of balancing easy to understand stories of real people, with explanations of genetic probability that make my head feel like it is going to explode. Why, why did I not take biology in high school? I think it will be a book that I will read and reread, in the hopes that more of it will come together for me (good chance the presentation will clear up a few things too).

Lofthouse is a name that keeps popping up for me in recent weeks as well, so I will check that out too. Much apprecia

@Branching Out
Ha! We were just talking about this. Look at Carol's description of Goldini in the article I linked above - she's given me a whole new outlook on what to look for when saving seed!:

Not like I need anymore vegetable seeds, but after reading Carol's article on Goldini I decided to preorder some of her seeds from Quail Seeds; sadly they are not shipping to Canada. The White Candle Gaucho especially caught my eye, being very determinate and impervious to rain (both great qualities for our area). Last night we had Smoky White Bean and Ham Soup for supper, and that bean would likely be perfect in this recipe.

 

[meadow]

Blue Jay's 2022 Bean Show - Day 9​

Early Warwick - Bush Dry - 2022

I acquired this bean in 2012 bean trade with a young lady in the UK name Andrea Jones. She has a website called The Linear Legume. This year was the fifth time I've grown the bean with good results except for this year. 10 plants produced a meager 2.6 ounces of beans (73.70 gm) I struggled to pick out enough photo quality beans for this years grow out photo.

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Early Warwick - Bush Dry

What is the situation with Early Warwick, @Bluejay77 ? Is this all you have left for this bean?

 

[flowerbug]

@Bluejay77 your package was mailed today - they said you should get it within 2-3days.

a few beans that failed completely i cannot try again (Baby Green Lima and Fukuryu Chunaga) as all of the seeds were planted.

these others i still have out and i will try again next season (Andikove, Montville, Shelleasy x Soldier, Striped Bunch) but i think i'll be lucky for any of these to do well enough to return 60 seeds - i hope other people have had better luck with them.

 

[Zeedman]

My 2022 beans, few though they were.

This one has become a mystery. It was sent to me as "Atlas" in 2009 (in an envelope from Vermont Bean with that name) and I have shared it that way since then. However, unless there are 2 beans with that name, "Atlas" is a wax bean - this is not. It is a bush, green-podded bean with large seeds, a short DTM, and a decent yield. Not very productive as a snap, but much better as a large-seeded shelly. Well worth growing, I just wish I knew what it really was. Harvested 9 ounces of dry seed... but it would have been at least twice that, had I not accidentally set the mulch in half the row on fire with the weed burner (smacking self on head).

 

[Zeedman]

"Bird Egg #3", pole, obtained from SSE in 2004, originally from John Withee (Wanigan Associates). While technically a snap, it is best used as an "October bean", for its very large shellies. It does indeed have a long DTM (about 110 days) but will ripen most of its seed here if planted on time. Planted 3 weeks late this year, I had to protect the vines from the first 2 frosts; but the results were worth the trouble. Harvested 1 pound 13 ounces of dry seed & 10 pints of shellies. It can be very productive; the last time I grew it, 40' of row produced 7# of dry seed plus shellies.

 

[Zeedman]

"Blue Marbutt", from Gardenweb member Dar Jones 2006. A round-podded pole snap bean; very productive, but with a DTM of about 100 days for dry seed. This is usually one of the last beans to ripen (I am holding my breath almost every time) but once ripening starts, it goes quickly. Very glossy black seed, 2# this year + a bucket of shellies from a 12' row. Doesn't do badly here, but this is a Southern heirloom, and better adapted to growing seasons longer than mine.