2024 Little Easy Bean Network - Growing Heirloom Beans Of Today And Tomorrow

[flowerbug]

the third box i shelled out today within the first five pods i took off the top four were a different new bean - it's looking like yet another fun bean season.

i haven't counted how many are new in total yet, but it's at least a dozen.

 

[heirloomgal]

Had to make decisions today based on the fact that we may get a solid rain tomorrow. Most of the plants are well advanced into seed development, was I willing to risk leaving the plants in the ground to take up too much water? On the one hand I want every last pod to mature it's seed, on the other hand I don't want to ruin what is close to maturity by leaving the roots in. So, I pulled the bottoms out on most of the plants. It is late Sept, and we've had a lot of heat units in the last week so I thought the best gamble was to not take risks with rain and be happy I got such a boost of good weather. I also moved several poles under cover, the ones with a lot of nearly dry pods.

I don't know if fall rains have officially begun, because different weather stations have different POP ratings, some say 30% chance some say 80%. It hasn't rained in a long time, so I'm thinking the rain will happen and it may be the onset of moisture. That would not be ideal of course, but it'd be okay, I can move my dry rack into the carport and dry stuff under there.

Did a bunch of shelling tonight. Ah, the sound of beans falling into my container. Felt great.

A pretty picture of the 'Posena' beans turning rosey pink.