2022 Little Easy Bean Network - We Are Beans Without Borders

[heirloomgal]

Rainy, cool day today.

While the varieties that are not as well developed needed a good watering because it's been so dry, the ones that were drying up...do not. But, I can't control the weather so it'll be what it'll be. I pulled everything nearly dry from the vines yesterday in anticipation. A few of the semi's and most of the bushes are done and out. I have some dried pods waiting to be shelled tonight. I do love shelling crisp pods.

Discovered that at least one of my Mooreskonigin bean plants is crossed, the seeds were pure white. But, the true to type bean is seemingly maturing rapidly so I'll have plenty to grow out again I think.

@Artorius do you know what the original colour of Siestke is? The pods I've shelled thus far are not the reddish brown I planted, but they may darken yet with age if that accounts for the brown colour, not sure. Also, one of the ladies in the seed exchange I mailed Piekny Jas beans to this winter sent me a picture of her gardens with the PJ vines growing along her antique barn. So your beans are starting to do the rounds in Canada! I mailed out lots of them as people were very interested in those beans.

 

[heirloomgal]

I tried looking for all the orders from Mandy that I may have had all the way back to 2013 and could not find that she got the bean from me. I think she probably acquired Tamila from Adaptive Seeds owned and operated by Andrew Still.

The bean does well for me and it is so pretty. I got my start of the baan from a Bruce Van Order in the state of New York. He was a former seed Savers Exchange member no longer active. I also got a couple of tomato varieties from Bruce before he disappeared from SSE. Large yellow tomats about 8 to 10 oz in size.

I'm surprised! I always thought that I was growing your beans long before I joined LEBN because most of my rarer beans were from her, and your site is the only other place I've seen these beans. It was from Mandy that I first heard about this incredible 'bean man' and his website! Gold of Bacau, Forelle Fleiderfarben, Tamila, Ram's Horn, Lilascheke, Candy, Chester, Hanna Hank, Koronis Purple, Christmas Lima - I got all of them from her. I imagine some of these she probably did get from you, if not Tamila.

 

[Pulsegleaner]

i do know that i've had pods that alternated reversals and regular beans in the same pod so it might be some kind of maternal influence on the expression of some genes. that's my guess.

As far as I can tell, reversals occur and reverse randomly. In one of my soup pea grow outs, I had a pod go reverse, so it went from green with purple spots to purple with green spots (which looked really cool until they actually dried down, and the brown mottling they also had (which is only visible on dried seed, not wet) came in and filled in the green patches. Those were the ONLY one I replated, and yet, the next year, everything returned to normal.

Though a slightly different pattern, the same thing seems to happen in chickpeas (kala type chickpeas, the kabouli type don't have these color traits as far as I can see.) with the "moss" effect (a sort of black dendric mottling that shows up on the seed coats, in extreme cases, making a black net over the surface. Mossy ones went in, regular non mossy ones came out. So that is environmental as well (the "Velcro" trait, however, appears heritable) .

 

[Blue-Jay]

I'm surprised! I always thought that I was growing your beans long before I joined LEBN because most of my rarer beans were from her, and your site is the only other place I've seen these beans. It was from Mandy that I first heard about this incredible 'bean man' and his website! Gold of Bacau, Forelle Fleiderfarben, Tamila, Ram's Horn, Lilascheke, Candy, Chester, Hanna Hank, Koronis Purple, Christmas Lima - I got all of them from her. I imagine some of these she probably did get from you, if not Tamila.

Mandy and I have conversed a bit back and forth for a long time probably at least 10 years. I've always enjoyed looking at her site and reading her neat descriptions of beans. She has gotten quite a few beans from me. I just couldn't find Tamila on any of those orders of hers. Unless I forgot to type in any of her orders but I kind of doubt that.

 

[jbosmith]

How productive are those Tamila beans? They're perty.

Only bean adjacent but I shelled my Amplissimo Victoria Ukrainkaya peas tonight. More than 3 quarts from a 15' row with extra wide plant spacing. Not bad!

 

[heirloomgal]

The sunshine is back, thank goodness. We had a solid 24 hr light rain.

Was able pick a few more pods this evening. It's impressive how the nearly dry pods were able to repel water. I'm surprised to see the runner beans are starting to dry up their pods this early, but they are. Everyday there are new ones to pick. No complaints here. I thought the peachy pink blossoms on the Sunset Runner beans were quite pretty. Next year I think I may try Painted Lady.

Not thrilled with the Gold of Bacau pods so far, I hope the upper pods are better. Last time they were as smooth as a polished stones.

Ntingi - ....oooooh, the pink is lovely. All my speckled beans have been shades of purple/lavender or grey. This is a wonderful speckled shade.

Soissons Verte pole bean. Another pastel shade, quite large, about as big as Brejo. The pods dry to a perfect muted green. So do the pods of Grune au Karpaten, a unique trait indeed. Being a Muppets fan, they always make me think of Kermie.

Couple random bean pics.

'Trapped'

Forelle Fleiderfarben, getting close to forming beans inside the pods...

Thought this was an interesting contrast - behind to the left I believe is Solwezi (from @Zeedman) and the naturally defoliated pole on the right is nb Gill's Delicious Giant. The last of the pods are a vibrant pinkish red right now, gorgeous, and almost done. Both went in as transplants, remarkable how some varieties mature so differently.

 

[heirloomgal]

How productive are those Tamila beans? They're perty.

Only bean adjacent but I shelled my Amplissimo Victoria Ukrainkaya peas tonight. More than 3 quarts from a 15' row with extra wide plant spacing. Not bad!

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Wow! I'll have to try this one!

Tamila is a workhorse every time I've grown it, though this year I can't tell yet.

 

[meadow]

Only bean adjacent but I shelled my Amplissimo Victoria Ukrainkaya peas tonight. More than 3 quarts from a 15' row with extra wide plant spacing. Not bad!

What do you mean by "extra wide plant spacing?"

I see that it can be used as a replacement for chickpeas! I'm intrigued and excited to try it.

 

[jbosmith]

What do you mean by "extra wide plant spacing?"

I did transplants and put them in at maybe a 5-6" plant spacing, mostly out of habit from beans.

I see that it can be used as a replacement for chickpeas! I'm intrigued and excited to try it.

The idea of dry pea hummus is what started this project. I've never done that, which I guess might have been a good step one, but if it doesn't work out I can always use them in soups.

I also grew Gorah, which looked similar but was more variable in size and smaller overall, Swedish Red, which is super pretty, but which I don't enjoy shelling due to very thing, clingy pods, and a bunch of old Canadian varieties which both the deer and chipmunks liked at various stages in my community garden.

 

[heirloomgal]

I did transplants and put them in at maybe a 5-6" plant spacing, mostly out of habit from beans.


The idea of dry pea hummus is what started this project. I've never done that, which I guess might have been a good step one, but if it doesn't work out I can always use them in soups.

I also grew Gorah, which looked similar but was more variable in size and smaller overall, Swedish Red, which is super pretty, but which I don't enjoy shelling due to very thing, clingy pods, and a bunch of old Canadian varieties which both the deer and chipmunks liked at various stages in my community garden.

.....old Canadian varieties.....hmm, you've got my curiosity piqued now jb