2022 Little Easy Bean Network - We Are Beans Without Borders

[flowerbug]

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eta: no, it is Siskiyou Seed that I was thinking of. Victory Seed has some that looks more consistent but not as pretty as yours.

i don't think there's any white color in the flowers that i grow as shown in Victory Seeds version. i think the leaves and plants are also darker red colored. i'd have to do a comparison grow out to be sure though since our garden soil here is so different...

 

[flowerbug]

I've been sorely tempted... I do love purple! I'm trying really hard to pare down my collection to just a few to be grown out on rotation though. It ain't easy.

heh, oh yeah, i know that feeling!

purples, pinks, yellows are colors we like to have here in the gardens and i like the growing habit of PD with the darker and more upright foliage (compared to many other beans i grow i'd be happy if PD crossed with them - which is why i grow so many PD plants to begin with aside from the fact that we like to eat them fresh and dry). so far the downside is that they are Japanese Beetle magnets but even if they get eaten a fair amount the plants remain productive.

 

[meadow]

i don't think there's any white color in the flowers that i grow as shown in Victory Seeds version. i think the leaves and plants are also darker red colored. i'd have to do a comparison grow out to be sure though since our garden soil here is so different...

Seems like there were quite a few Lobitz beans that were very similar. I wonder if this is one of them? I saw them on the same page as Purple Dove on Russ' site.

 

[flowerbug]

Seems like there were quite a few Lobitz beans that were very similar. I wonder if this is one of them? I saw them on the same page as Purple Dove on Russ' site.

i've now grown quite a pile of RL purple beans that look like PD but so far i can say that none of them are the same (the seeds are different and the growth habit for some of them is also different).

note that i'm speaking only of beans from @Bluejay77 s collection because i've not seen or gotten any from anyone else.

here is the list so far:

Blooming Prairie
Chaska Purple (ran later than all the rest by a few weeks)
Delano
Purple Diamond
Purple Dove
Purple Rain
Purple Rose

Semi-Runner:

Purple Rose Creek
Viola

i'm not sure if there are other's i've missed or not that are similar.

 

[meadow]

purples, pinks, yellows are colors we like to have here in the gardens and i like the growing habit of PD with the darker and more upright foliage (compared to many other beans i grow i'd be happy if PD crossed with them - which is why i grow so many PD plants to begin with aside from the fact that we like to eat them fresh and dry). so far the downside is that they are Japanese Beetle magnets but even if they get eaten a fair amount the plants remain productive.

Sounds very pretty even before it is shelled! I love to just pause and enjoy the sights and sounds in the garden.

 

[Branching Out]

Hello all. I've realized I can't do everything I'd like to do. I bought these to put in the freezer, and to grow over the next few years. That won't be happening, so I'm offering them to you folks. Most of these are an ounce pack, which I could divide in two. A few are 30 or 40 seeds, so might not be best to divide those. Khabarovsk is 4 ounces, so I could provide several of those to people. A few of them I'll most likely keep a few seeds, in case I do get the blackberries under control and can grow them. Let me know what you are interested in. I'm willing to try to send out of the country, but if there is a best way to send from the USA to your country, let me know in a private message how to do that for you. I'll pay all mailing costs, so don't worry about that. Maybe I should add that @Bluejay77 gets first crack at them. I've already got a box of 14 others I'm sending him, not listed below.

Hope this sounds fair. First come, first served. Or in computer geek talk, FIFO (first in, first out).

Appaloosa Bean - dry, twinning bush habit - The Experimental Farm Network (2022)
Beefy - dry, bush, black resilient bean - Quail Seeds (2022)
Blue Lake FM1 - pole, snap bean - R.H. Shumway's (2021)
Stringless Blue Lake S-7, pole, snap bean - Jung's (2022)
Blue Lake Wright Strain, pole, snap bean - Victory Seeds (2022)
Bolita, bush, dry - Siskiyou Seeds (2022)
Borlotto, dry, bush - Quail Seeds (2022)
Broughton Astley Polish, dry, pole - Adaptive Seeds (2022)
Flor de Mayo, ?? - The Experimental Farm Network (2022)
Frijol Roijoo de Seda (Salvadoran Red), dry, pole - Truelove Seeds (2022)
George Fowler Pole - ?, pole - Victory Seeds (2022)
Gold Nectar, snap, pole - Adaptive Seeds (2022)
Hannah Freeman, snap - shell - dry, ? - Truelove Seeds (2022)
Kentucky Blue, snap, pole - R.H. Shumway's (2021)
Kew Blue, snap, pole - Adaptive Seeds (2022)
Khabarovsk, dry, pole - Adaptive Seeds (2022) (sourced from Gerhard Bohl, Germany)
Lina Sisco's Bird Egg, bush, dry - SEE (2022)
Northern Pinto, bush, dry - The Experimental Farm Network (2022)
O'Driscoll, pole, dry - Adaptive Seeds (2022)
Orcabean, ?, dry - Siskiyou Seeds (2022)
Oregon Giant, pole, snap - Adaptive Seeds (2022)
Pepe de Rola, pole, dry - Siskiyou Seeds (2022)
Poletschka, pole, dry - Adaptive Seeds (2022)
Purple Dove, bush, snap - Siskiyou Seeds (2022)
Purple Kingsessing, pole, dry - Truelove Seeds (2022)
Red Kidney, bush, dry - Siskiyou Seeds (2022)
Riggin's Stick, pole, snap (strings) - Victory Seeds (2022)
Rockwell, ?, dry - Siskiyou Seeds (2022)
Shunk, pole, dry - Truelove Seeds (2022)
Yessica's Inca Bush Bean, bush, ? - Quail Seeds (2022)

It can be both difficult and liberating to lower our expectations of ourselves at times like this, to simplify our life. Jack, if it is the blackberries that are interfering with the progress of your garden I have a few insights on removal strategies that worked for us, and I would be happy to share them with you if you would like. It's not like I'm a blackberry expert or anything, but I have noticed a few things about the way they grow. When we bought our house it was so neglected that I wanted to cry each time I looked out the window. In the end eliminating the blackberries was not as bad as we thought it was going to be. Lots of elbow grease and thick gloves though.

 

[flowerbug]

Sounds very pretty even before it is shelled! I love to just pause and enjoy the sights and sounds in the garden.

as the pods dry down they change colors. some pods fade to tan, others will stay purple and then some will get strange shades of green on them. depending upon your moisture levels and how many fungi you have about in your gardens. we get a pretty damp season here and so i have to try to keep after them for picking when they are drying. often i will pick when 3/4 of the pods are dry and then shell out the younger ones and eat them as shellies - then i don't have to have trays of pods laying around drying and i don't have to hang plants up either.

 

[Jack Holloway]

After reading the posts about the colors of Purple Dove, I opened the package and took a picture of the seeds.

 

[flowerbug]

Hello all. I've realized I can't do everything I'd like to do. I bought these to put in the freezer, and to grow over the next few years. That won't be happening, so I'm offering them to you folks. ...

sorely tempted but i have to pass. be thankful you have a freezer! they can last a long time in there.

 

[flowerbug]

After reading the posts about the colors of Purple Dove, I opened the package and took a picture of the seeds. View attachment 53926

i'd consider the single left bean an off type (just likely a mistake because nobody sorted their growout before packaging).

the upper beans mostly look ok, but i'd need to see the eye of the dark ones on the right, if there is some white around the eye and it is otherwise purple it is a reverse of PD.

the lower right ones that are tan colored don't match anything i've seen here in four or five generations.

the lower left, i can't tell from the picture but if they are tan instead of white i'd say they're also an off type and not comparable to what i've been growing.

thanks for checking!

i'll be interested to hear back from @Bluejay77 at some point if he can remember his original sample from RL back in 2004.