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

[heirloomgal]

The Deaflora store has the correct Gold und Silber seeds, that's where the ones I sowed in 2023 come from.

Stangenbohne Gold und Silber (Samen)

Phaseolus vulgaris var. vulgaris Zur Hälfte goldfarben, zur Hälfte weiß. Im weißen Anteil sind noch viele goldfarbene Flecken und Spritzer zu finden. Sehr hübsch!

deaflora.de

I have written to Deaflora and Guy Dirix about this bean. I'm curious to see their responses.

Keep us posted @Artorius. I'd love to hear the story of this bean, and about this outcross that @Decoy1 and I have. I wonder if our twin beans are originally from the same gene pool.

 

[heirloomgal]

I discovered an inadvertent perk of my new trellis; typically I lean the tall poles against the shed, or the eave of the house. Somewhere tall since I cut the trees to about 12 feet or more. But they always slide sideways and fall, and usually need to be put back several times a day. I lose beans when they do this too, as the crash can make pods erupt as happened several times in the last 2 weeks. Finally I have a solution! lol

Tried for a better pic of the Purple Dove cross.

Got a comparison picture of Santa Maria Pinquito with rice and lentils. It's under my stove range hood so lighting is off, but the size perspective is there. 3 grains of rice is equivalent in size to it, as is a lentil!

 

[Zeedman]

I re=grew the hyacinth beans which were smothered by weeds in the rural garden last year, to see what they would do under better conditions. Like everything else this year, they were planted (from transplants) in mid-July. They still took the entire 6' trellis, and were reaching for more.

Hyacinth bean "Early Meaty", from asiangarden2table. The flowers look a lot like sweet peas, and the vines are rampant; these might be good as an edible, decorative trellis or arbor cover. A lot of beans too, even planted late this far North. A keeper!