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

[heirloomgal]

Oh my gosh is that a beautiful blue! Do you get any that have a hint of tan in them?

It is SO blue! I got about 2 1/2 cups of beans from the plants, and there was probably about a dozen seeds in with the rest that had a tan look to them. So yes, there was some but not many. I keep wondering if this bean is Meerbarbe with a different name? They are very similar.

I'm writing up my blurb for Harvey's White Haricot and can't find information on that bean - I know your website says that you received it from a friend in California, and it's a steady cropper. Is there any other info you might have @Blue-Jay ? I'm so curious, it's a truly glorious bean.

 

[Dahlia]

Happy Halloween bean lovers!

I won the family pumpkin carving contest! 1st time ever!View attachment 70134View attachment 70133

I think I was subconsciously influenced by my expert seed saving friend Susan, who lives and gardens off grid on a goat farm!

Those are some great pumpkin carvings! I made a simple design this year -

 

[Michael Lusk]

@Blue-Jay I'm mailing the bean-post this morning. I'll be including three of the four...sadly the Hallados Grandos just didn't produce for me (big healthy looking plants but only a few beans really late in the season). The three I'm returning are the Romanian Large Plum Speckle, Lucie and Letcher Couty Fall. I'll include the pics here.

I'm definitely on the low end of the growing scale, but I'm happy to be a part of the project - this was my 7th year! Thanks again for doing this, it means a lot to everyone involved!

 

[Branching Out]

@Blue-Jay I'm mailing the bean-post this morning. I'll be including three of the four...sadly the Hallados Grandos just didn't produce for me (big healthy looking plants but only a few beans really late in the season). The three I'm returning are the Romanian Large Plum Speckle, Lucie and Letcher Couty Fall. I'll include the pics here.

I'm definitely on the low end of the growing scale, but I'm happy to be a part of the project - this was my 7th year! Thanks again for doing this, it means a lot to everyone involved!

Those Lucie beans look so big and beautiful! Have you had a chance to cook any of them up by any chance?

 

[Michael Lusk]

Those Lucie beans look so big and beautiful! Have you had a chance to cook any of them up by any chance?

I haven't cooked any of them, but I plan to soon!

 

[heirloomgal]

Those are some great pumpkin carvings! I made a simple design this year -

Love the moon and stars theme, very creative. It is not easy to come up with original ideas for carving!

 

[Blue-Jay]

I'm writing up my blurb for Harvey's White Haricot and can't find information on that bean - I know your website says that you received it from a friend in California, and it's a steady cropper. Is there any other info you might have @Blue-Jay ? I'm so curious, it's a truly glorious bean.

My California donor tells me it's a steady cropper. Suppossedly a form of white Navy beans and can also be used as a snap bean. French in origin. That is the full extent of what this fellow wrote on the envelope that the seed came in.

 

[heirloomgal]

Suppossedly a form of white Navy beans

Wow! That's interesting since Harvey's White Haricot is so big! I didn't eat the beans ( I never eat network beans), so next time I grow them I'll need to try them.

eta: I just stumbled on a neat little word/name thing. In researching the 'Trevio Nun' bean for a blurb write up, I came up with nothing for Trevio with google translate, seems to have no meaning that I can find. However, 'Treviso' roughly translates to "agricultural market centre", now that seems to fit. And the 'nun' translates to nun obviously a nod to the resemblance the beans have to a nun's habit. Do you think the beans naem might be 'Treviso Nun'?

 

[flowerbug]

finished up another bag of beans, 3lbs of Purple Dove. not as many as i thought but still nice considering it came from a garden outside the fence. ten more bags to go. have to take a break though for getting some garlic ready to plant before i can get back to shelling.

 

[Branching Out]

Trying to dry down some bean pods using trays suspended over the forced air heating vents, as well as cozying up to the fireplace.