2022 Little Easy Bean Network - We Are Beans Without Borders

[flowerbug]

...Flowerbug you can email your request anytime and I will fill in it's order when it comes up. I'm taking everything in order of date since requests and orders have been coming to me by email since early January.

glad you made it home safe and sound through all those miles!

thank you for letting me know what's up.

 

[Artorius]

This is the Ocean View segregation that I found in 2020. I sowed it on February 18 and it grows in a pot on the window sill. Bush bean, but the plant is very tall, about 70 cm.



The seeds are large and flat.



I am very curious what is hidden in the pods. I will find out soon.

 

[meadow]

This is the Ocean View segregation that I found in 2020. I sowed it on February 18 and it grows in a pot on the window sill. Bush bean, but the plant is very tall, about 70 cm.

What size pot does it take to grow the entire life cycle indoors? Do you use plant food/fertilizer?

 

[Artorius]

@meadow
I plant the sill beans in 3 liter pots. The substrate I use contains enough fertilizer for the entire life cycle of the plant. This year, Refugee and Frauenbohne are also growing in pots. I only have a few seeds of these varieties, and I hope to get a little more before the real start of the season.

 

[meadow]

Thank you, @Artorius. That is a smart strategy for increasing a small amount of seed!

 

[Blue-Jay]

I've sent you two emails. The second is the update with network requests and an order. Please use the second one, for its place in the order queue. It is different from the first. Thank you. And thank you for all you are doing. Most kind of you.

Jack I have your Network request. I will be working on the Network request starting tomorrow. You have three beans that I see on your email. I don't charge postage when I send out network beans only. You will be paying the postage when you mail back your return beans.

 

[Blue-Jay]

On April 2 I attended my third Appalachian Seed Swap in Pikeville, Kentucky. This was the first seed swap since 2019 since the pandemic. They had just under 300. We felt that Covid still has a bunch of people spooked. The usual attendance at this event is is anywhere from 500 to 800. The record year is 1,200.

I got to Pikeville the day before after driving nearly 9 hours. A bunch of us seedy people that know each other from Facebook get together on Friday evening at a restaraunt called the Bank for dinner. Yeah that's me in the red t-shirt at the head of the table.

The actual seed swap takes place on Saturday in the entry foyer of the Pike Central High School in Pikeville.

Later after the swap we meet again with a little bigger group at the Bank as more of our seed family had showed up later Friday to attend Saturday.

 

[Blue-Jay]

On Sunday April 3rd there was another seed swap southwest of Pikeville in Whitesburg, Kentucky. This was their second annual swap called Cane Kitchen. They need a better name if they are going to continue having a seed swap. Held in a large room at their public library looked like a large octagonal room. They actually had a free bean soup dinner to feed and attract all the swap attendees.

A shot of Downtown Whitesburg.

After the Whitesburg event. I was headed west on Ky 119. My intention was to make my way towards Danville, Kentucky. Wanting to make my way west towards I-75 then north to exit 59 to take Ky 150 west to Danville. I will tell you about that in the next post. There was a lookout probably 15 to 20 miles southwest of Whitesburg and I was maybe another 800 feet higher. I shot one more photo of Whitesburg.

Looking back at Whitesburg. It's that little white patch just a hair left of center in the photo.

 

[Blue-Jay]

Well it has nothing to do with beans but it was part of my Kentukcy seed swap trip. My younger brother has done extensive research on the Crow family and there are Kentucky people that do trace directly to my grandfather and father in Texas. The town of Danville, Kentucky was founded by my great, great, great grandfather John Crow after he served in George Washington's revoltionary army. For his service he was granted 30 acres of land and had to raise a crop and build a shelter or home and live there for at least one year. John Crow journeyed through the Cumberland Gap and stopped where there is now Danville, Kentucky. Orignally called Crow Station. John Crow is credited with being it's original founder.

I found the original site where John Crow had built a stone cabin. The original part is the section behind the Greek pillars that was added later. Probably long after John Crow was gone. The sections left and right of the pillars were also added later. The place today is of course someones residence and there is also a winnery as part of the property.

In Constituion Square downtown Danville there were a number of old buildings standing there. The first post office built west of the Allegany River and others. I also located the stone plaque honoring the founder of this town.

 

[Artorius]

I would like to go on an exchange like that, but it would be hard to come back with the seeds. I would have to charter a plane with a trailer.