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

[Blue-Jay]

Blue Jay's Bean Show Day #2​

I hadn't grown Blue Shaxamaxon in a couple of years and was nearly out of the bean through fairly steady request. My Stanwood, Iowa grower's seed looks like it turned out larger that what I had grown previously. The second bean Bogen turned out really nice this year and very productive. 19.65 ounces (557 grams) from 4 plants of very high quality seed. Actually nicer that the ones I had grown the last time I grew Bogen. In my early days of Seed Savers Exchange I wish I would have kept a record of who sent me the beans that I had received from other SSE members. Bogen is one of the Beans I donated to Seed Savers Exchange. No one else came forth with the bean.

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Blue Shaxamaxon - Pole Dry.............................Bogen - Pole Dry

 

[Blue-Jay]

Bobolink is a bean that I have known since the late 1970's. John Withee of his Wanigan Network fame collected the bean from someone in the state of Maine. Even today one of the Seed Savers Exchange listers is from Maine. I think this might be a genuine Maine bean. I have received steady requests for this bean. Also shown is the off type found in Bobolink this year. It is really a beauty. Also shown is the Off types dark red reverse in the third photo.


Bobolink - Pole Dry...............................................Bobolink Off Type 2024


Bobolink Off Type Reverse

 

[Million Bells]

Had the bean-wilting frost yesterday. Only the yellow eyes laughed it off, and that bush was blooming over the weekend. I let it be, because it makes me happy in a nearly empty garden.

The rest of the beans were cut off to dry already, and I had just put them in the garage to protect from the frost. Mostly moro beans left, but a few late rattlesnake pods are still drying down.

 

[ducks4you]

"Had the bean-wilting frost yesterday. Only the yellow eyes laughed it off,"
Well put!