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

[Blue-Jay]

I might as well join in with my grow out list too. Although I don't have a bean garden this year. I do have two growers growing beans for me and I will get the entire seed crop from them.

Growing in Albion. Indiana

Calico
Flossie Powell
J. Carroll's West Virgiania
Lois Archer

Growing In Stanwood, Iowa

Black And White Goose
Blue Shaxamaxon
Bobolink
Bogen
Bregenzer
Brown Eyed Goose
Candy
Cascade Giant
Connecticut Wonder
Cresenjevec
Fort Portal Jade
Ga Ga Hut
Giant Nilgiri
Hemelvaartbontje
Holy
Khabarovsk
Kiagara Mame
Lynnfield
Mbombo Green
Nebels Ukrainian
Ohio Pole
Osborne & Clyde
Peinsipps Zwefarbige
Peruvian Goose
Rattlesnake
Red Marbles
Riga D'Oro
Rotkugelbohne
Seneca Bird Egg
Tonawanda Strawberry
True Red Cranberry
Turkey Craw
Tuvagliedda
Vermont Cranberry
Zuni Shalako

 

[Branching Out]

Here is my 2024 planting list, with beans growing out in four different gardens. I am still poking in seeds as well, as summer hasn't really arrived here yet. This may be overly optimistic-- but if we get a summery September late plantings still might make it. Also, I am quite certain that I am missing a few new ones that I have not added to my records yet, as well as a few beans of unknown origin:
Chick Pea of Spello
Fava (Italian heirloom)
Scarlett Runner + large white seeded runner bean of unknown origin

Bush Form:
Blooming Prairie
Blue Jay
Cocaigne Dwarf Shelly
Delinel
Dragon Tongue
Empress
Executive
Ferrari
Gold Rush
Harvester Mangiatutto
Masai
Mascotte
Maxibel
Painted Pony
Purple Queen
Purple Dove
Resistant Cherokee Wax
Royal Burgundy
Tendergreen
Tezier
Valentino
Venda
Znichka Yellow Wax

Pole Form:
Blue Lake
Emerite
Herrenbohnlie
Jimenez
Landfrauen
Louisiana Pole
Purple Cascade
Rattlesnake
Sunshine Yellow
Tanya's Pink Outcross

Dry Beans:
Anasazi
Arikara Yellow
Dakota Bumble
Hidatsa Shield Figure
Italian Pole (white seeds)
Italian Pole (Emilia's Italian??)
Kabarika
Khabarovsk
Mrociumere
Orca
Pinto-type bean (unknown origin)
Red Ryder
Rio Zape Outcross
Tinkers' Fire
Ugandan Bantu
Vulcan Outcross

Network (2 new ones, 4 are second attempts):
Coco de Belle Isle (pole dry)
Orange Speckled Tepary
White Coco (bush dry)
Van Gogh's Olive (semi-runner, dry)
*Grandma Rivera's Pole Lima
*Potomac (Pole Snap)

2022 was my first year growing dry beans, and after I harvested the beautiful dry seeds in the autumn of that year I was smitten. Now I'm becoming rather obsessed with bean growing. It has definitely enriched my gardening experience.

 

[heirloomgal]

it's hard to get formatting to copy and paste correctly, but i used Code (under More Options) and at least it kept the rough format ok...

So that's why I had such problems...it occurred to me as I was trying to copy & paste that it was probably the table format causing me the issues.

 

[heirloomgal]

I might as well join in with my grow out list too. Although I don't have a bean garden this year. I do have two growers growing beans for me and I will get the entire seed crop from them.

Growing in Albion. Indiana

Calico
Flossie Powell
J. Carroll's West Virgiania
Lois Archer

Growing In Stanwood, Iowa

Black And White Goose
Blue Shaxamaxon
Bobolink
Bogen
Bregenzer
Brown Eyed Goose
Candy
Cascade Giant
Connecticut Wonder
Cresenjevec
Fort Portal Jade
Ga Ga Hut
Giant Nilgiri
Hemelvaartbontje
Holy
Khabarovsk
Kiagara Mame
Lynnfield
Mbombo Green
Nebels Ukrainian
Ohio Pole
Osborne & Clyde
Peinsipps Zwefarbige
Peruvian Goose
Rattlesnake
Red Marbles
Riga D'Oro
Rotkugelbohne
Seneca Bird Egg
Tonawanda Strawberry
True Red Cranberry
Turkey Craw
Tuvagliedda
Vermont Cranberry
Zuni Shalako

@Blue-Jay when it comes time to decide what beans you'll grow out in the upcoming year, is it always determined by beans which you have the least of, or are there are things that factor in? With a bean collection so large as you have I imagine you must be also balancing beans you want to maintain, and then new ones you want to try?

 

[heirloomgal]

Here is my 2024 planting list, with beans growing out in four different gardens. I am still poking in seeds as well, as summer hasn't really arrived here yet. This may be overly optimistic-- but if we get a summery September late plantings still might make it. Also, I am quite certain that I am missing a few new ones that I have not added to my records yet, as well as a few beans of unknown origin:
Chick Pea of Spello
Fava (Italian heirloom)
Scarlett Runner + large white seeded runner bean of unknown origin

Bush Form:
Blooming Prairie
Blue Jay
Cocaigne Dwarf Shelly
Delinel
Dragon Tongue
Empress
Executive
Ferrari
Gold Rush
Harvester Mangiatutto
Masai
Mascotte
Maxibel
Painted Pony
Purple Queen
Purple Dove
Resistant Cherokee Wax
Royal Burgundy
Tendergreen
Tezier
Valentino
Venda
Znichka Yellow Wax

Pole Form:
Blue Lake
Emerite
Herrenbohnlie
Jimenez
Landfrauen
Louisiana Pole
Purple Cascade
Rattlesnake
Sunshine Yellow
Tanya's Pink Outcross

Dry Beans:
Anasazi
Arikara Yellow
Dakota Bumble
Hidatsa Shield Figure
Italian Pole (white seeds)
Italian Pole (Emilia's Italian??)
Kabarika
Khabarovsk
Mrociumere
Orca
Pinto-type bean (unknown origin)
Red Ryder
Rio Zape Outcross
Tinkers' Fire
Ugandan Bantu
Vulcan Outcross

Network (2 new ones, 4 are second attempts):
Coco de Belle Isle (pole dry)
Orange Speckled Tepary
White Coco (bush dry)
Van Gogh's Olive (semi-runner, dry)
*Grandma Rivera's Pole Lima
*Potomac (Pole Snap)

2022 was my first year growing dry beans, and after I harvested the beautiful dry seeds in the autumn of that year I was smitten. Now I'm becoming rather obsessed with bean growing. It has definitely enriched my gardening experience.

It's amazing how beans can draw you in. Something so deeply satisfying about it.

 

[Branching Out]

Very little of what I grow is in a traditional vegetable garden. Mostly things are all mixed together in a very eclectic fashion. Here is Tinkers'Fire, with some of last season's raspberry canes poked in for support. In front is liatris, cosmos, Swiss chard, and four different varieties of dwarf tomatoes (including your Uluru Ochre, Heirloomgal.) It's definitely starting to look like summer around here!

 

[Decoy1]

A rather belated list from me. I've enjoyed reading everyone else's.

Pole
Blacksmith's Bean
Box
Bragançano
Canadian
Cherokee Striped Cornhill
Childers Cutshort
Coco 'Sophie'
Eva
Fortex
Frank Barnett Cutshort
Garden of Eden
Georgian #22
Golden Gate
Hamby
Hickory Stick
Ilene
Italian Snap
John Morgan Stumbo Greasy Cutshort
Juanita Smith
Kaiser Friedrich
Kermit's Smoky Mountain
Kew Blue
Limka
Madeira Maroon
Melbourne's Mini
Merveille de Piemonte
Meuch
Mongeta del Ganxet
Old Timey Long Cut Greasy
Rose
Rose Cherokee Long Greasy (brown seeded)
Rose Cherokee Long Greasy (light seeded)
Ruth Bible
Selma Zebra
St Antony
Tarbais
Tennessee Cutshort
Tung
Tunny
Turkey Craw
Barksdale
Kroatische Stangebohne
Bush
Bobis d’Albenga
Citroenboontjes
Coco de Paimpol
Cream Six Weeks
DFB 002
DFB 004
DFB 006
Groeninger Strogele
Purple Queen
Red Swan
Safari
Schwarze Dalmatiner
Tendergreen
Trionfo Violetto
Woods Mountain Crazy Bean
Yugoslavian No 4
Beurre de Rocquencourt
Cala d’Or
Coco de la Meuse
Semi
Black Valentine
Old Joe Clark
Quedlinger Speck
Mountaineer White Half Runner

 

[Blue-Jay]

@Blue-Jay when it comes time to decide what beans you'll grow out in the upcoming year, is it always determined by beans which you have the least of, or are there are things that factor in? With a bean collection so large as you have I imagine you must be also balancing beans you want to maintain, and then new ones you want to try?

You nailed all reasons I pick to grow the beans I do.

1.) beans which you have the least of
2.) maintain
3.) new ones to try

 

[Blue-Jay]

The Summer Bean Show 2024.


Brazilian Bean #4.............................................Brazilian Bean #5 Looks Like A Lima.

 

[flowerbug]

It's amazing how beans can draw you in. Something so deeply satisfying about it.

for me it is that gardening provides me with yummy, clean, inexpensive food in exchange for useful exercise. i can't get into going to the gym or monotinous walking up and down the road - my body requires some kind of work which engages the whole of the spine, digging and gardening does that. the added parts are the tactile and visual feedback when shelling beans and sorting them and pondering what might happen next.

and then there's the scientific aspects of gardening where you can experiment and test things out and learn more and watch how the animals and insects respond and ...

well, i can go on, and on... pretty colors, shapes.

if you are into beachcombing for rocks beans can provide some of those same things even if you live a ways away from any beaches or suitable streams.

in the middle of winter being able to run my hands through piles of different colors and shapes of beans and having things to sort out and enjoy is just very satisfying. OCD aspects for sure.

and then also the major bonus of being able to get new beans as pretty as Tinker's Fire or some of the other's i'm seeing now. after years of planting and hoping and then *poof* all at once i have a bunch more candidates for edible and dry bean feasting. green, purple and wax beans are all among our most favorite garden vegetables - i like eating them almost any ways they're used but fresh is a whole other bump up in goodness.