2022 Little Easy Bean Network - We Are Beans Without Borders

[Blue-Jay]

@Bluejay77 I am interested in growing the naturally resistant Good Mother Stallard. Do you have any information on the seed saver that has this seed, or know how one might go about acquiring some?

I have the seed of the naturally BCMV resistant Good Mother Stallard. When my farmer friend from Idaho sent me some seed. I broke them up into 3 packets of 15 seeds. It's probably too late to grow them this year. Let me know about early April and I'll send you one of the packets.

 

[meadow]

I have the seed of the naturally BCMV resistant Good Mother Stallard. When my farmer friend from Idaho sent me some seed. I broke them up into 3 packets of 15 seeds. It's probably too late to grow them this year. Let me know about early April and I'll send you one of the packets.

Thank you!

 

[flowerbug]

i could finally get some fresh beans picked today and they're in the microwave cooking right now.

also some large pea pods.

one of the Purple Dove bean plants was an out-cross, i pulled it out as i didn't want any of those seeds. the pods are a much lighter purple color and the beans are more flat but the trait i really did not want was that it was a semi-runner or possibly a pole bean. i don't mind if they are semi-runner and fully purple and the pods are shaped right, but, nope not these beans.

of the several thousands of Purple Dove beans this is the first out-cross i've found from seeds i've grown.

 

[Blue-Jay]

Gardening and growing plants is full of surprises every season. In 2020 I planted a bush bean called Nigel. Very productive small red and cream colored seed that sorta reminded me of a runner bean pattern P. Coccineus. I got a lot of off type seed from Nigel that year. Different color, dark blue. So I thought I would plant the off type seed this year and see if it could be stable. Well surprise, surprise ! I went and looked at the bush bean grow out today and the Nigel Off Type is throwing runners. Some pretty long already. Trouble is I can't allow this semi runner characteristic to get into the other bush beans. So I had to kill some of them off. I will watch the other one's that are left but I'm pretty sure I'm going to wind up taking out the entire grow out of this bean. I will try them next year again and give them something to climb on and plant them with all the other beans that want to climb.


Nigel - Bush Dry............................................................Nigel Off Type Semi Runner


Nigel Off Type Might Even Wind Up Being A Pole Bean


Nigel Off Type - The Dying Bodies.

 

[flowerbug]

booger deer are eating my other garden now. they can't be happy enough having mostly cleaned out the other, they gotta get this one too? ah well, i'm trying to put up some scarecrows, stinky stuff and whatever else i can to discourage them, but short of camping out there i don't think i've got much of a chance for these two large bulk bean gardens this year. grrr!

motion detection pea shooter anyone? i mean, i'd be happy if it were a machine gun and nuclear ammo but then we'd not have a house left (or us for that matter), but an automatic pea shooter i could use to give the deer a real sting would probably work...

 

[Blue-Jay]

booger deer are eating my other garden now.

Once deer find a place they like to munch on. They just keep coming and coming. Deer love beans and tomato plants for sure. The only way I think to stop them is fence them out. 8 feet high minumum. You've seen my deer fence. Built in 2017. I paid about $3,900 materials and labor. Since then not a single deer. It has worked. They don't want to expend the energy to jump a fence that high.

 

[meadow]

motion detection pea shooter anyone?

What about a motion detection jet-spray of water?

 

[flowerbug]

What about a motion detection jet-spray of water?

it has been dry enough i can see that turning into a deer water park attraction...

 

[flowerbug]

Once deer find a place they like to munch on. They just keep coming and coming. Deer love beans and tomato plants for sure. The only way I think to stop them is fence them out. 8 feet high minumum. You've seen my deer fence. Built in 2017. I paid about $3,900 materials and labor. Since then not a single deer. It has worked. They don't want to expend the energy to jump a fence that high.

i know, i want to put more fence up but Mom doesn't want more fence. so i'm stuck with less than perfect other methods.

i've put up a scarecrow and will put up some strange smells for them to see if that will hold them off for another night.

the large deer is not looking to being the one doing most of the eating it is the little hoof prints i'm seeing in the gardens. i will also put out more traps to see if they will step on them and startle them off. i was also thinking some poles with fishing line on them that will grab at them as they try to walk by which they won't be able to see. they may not like that at all. collapsible so it doesn't cause damage, but just something that happens to them that they're not used to having happen here. a stack of pop cans with the fishing line through it too so it falls over and makes noise. except i don't want to be waking up during any of this.

 

[heirloomgal]

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booger deer are eating my other garden now. they can't be happy enough having mostly cleaned out the other, they gotta get this one too? ah well, i'm trying to put up some scarecrows, stinky stuff and whatever else i can to discourage them, but short of camping out there i don't think i've got much of a chance for these two large bulk bean gardens this year. grrr!

motion detection pea shooter anyone? i mean, i'd be happy if it were a machine gun and nuclear ammo but then we'd not have a house left (or us for that matter), but an automatic pea shooter i could use to give the deer a real sting would probably work...

Motion activated sprinkler?