Some network bean pics and a few others.
Schwarze Witwe
I like the odd name 'Black Widow'. I think that it might even be the reason I wanted to grow this network bean.
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Polish Pea
This may just be the teeniest bean I've ever grown. It's SUPER small, even smaller than a navy bean. I did grow it in a planter so I'm not sure if that had an effect, all the other beans I grew in planters were normal size. Nice and easy to shell, thin blonde pods. A short semi-runner.
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Oh. My. Gosh. This network bean
Kitoba. I just can't believe all the great attributes this bean has. I can't quite get the color right in the photos yet, but I'm going to keep trying. Too much grey in the shots which is misleading, this is a very raspberry lavender shade of bean. It's a real stunner. I can't wait to get a weight for these, 4 plants produced a lot of top quality beans. The pods are rock hard, which I like as that quality gives resilience to both the seeds and the pods.
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Hopi Pink
I only just shelled the first few pods but I found 2 of the 3 pink expressions this bean has. I got it from Mandy's Greenhouse. I like the larger light pink ones, the darker ones are a bit ho-hum. I'm going to select only for the fatter pink beans in the future. I'll be curious to see if the 3rd color expression is in the pods.
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Netowrk bean
Van Gogh's Olive. This is another one that is really hard to get a good picture of with my device. The bean is really sensitive to the light and background and different color tones in the seedcoats get highlighted with different lighting. So I'm posting a few pics to try and give
@Bluejay77 's bean its justice. This is another magnificently coloured bean.
The lavender tones.
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The bluish green tones.
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Network bean
Paul Bunyan Giant. All the dried pods so far have been 12 inches long, or very close to it. This bean seed reminds me a little of Brejo, it's got curved bean seeds. This is a real strange one! The name fits it well.
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Youdou #1
This is actually a pretty seed, but it has ghastly orange rings around the eye and there is a rusty streak on the back of the seeds. This makes them look a bit dirty or something. But the actual seedcoat is very different, in the flesh the seeds actually have the illusion of small baby blue flecks. They aren't quite this dark in reality, it's the lightning.
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Network bean
Lazy Wife Red. This is a wonderful bean variety. I didn't know what to expect with this one, and it hadn't been grown since 2014. The plants were vigorous & productive, the pods were early, long and well formed. Slight curve. Easy to shell too. And the bean seeds are on the larger side with sort of speckled fleshy pink seedcoats. Excellent quality all around. So happy to have this one in my collection now! I wonder if I can eat it as a snap bean since it's called a lazy wife?
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Bay of Fundy Amethyst. It's wild how much this bean is like 'Candy' - only in purple. Even the shape tendencies in the seeds of Candy are carried over into this bean, as well as the patterns. The plants of BOFA were really overwhelmed by the huge Black Panther soybeans in the next row, which I didn't know would become so large. So there was significant mold issues, but I must say they still produced pretty well for the challenges it had and the seed quality is good.
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