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!

 

[heirloomgal]

All the beans have now been sitting in jars, in that final air out phase for a few weeks. DD is requesting use of the dining room table, and I'm wondering if it's time to put lids on and put into cold storage treatment. I dunno, worried I might be too early. Decisions.

 

[Blue-Jay]

All the beans have now been sitting in jars, in that final air out phase for a few weeks. DD is requesting use of the dining room table, and I'm wondering if it's time to put lids on and put into cold storage treatment. I dunno, worried I might be too early. Decisions.

You have harvested and dried beans at nearly the schedule as we have here in northern Illinois and Iowa. My beans this year were grown in Stanwood, Iowa which is southern Iowa but nearly straight west of me. This past week I've been packaging and tucking the beans away in my freezers. I don't think it would be too early for you to put the lid on this bean season 2024.

 

[Blue-Jay]

Bregenzer 2024. I had aquired this bean from a bean friend in Liebenfels, Austria 10 years ago this year. I love the bean it produces nice quality seed in a decent growing season. Candy 2024 is one of my orignal named beans from 1982. Wow ! 42 years ago already. Discovered the bean in a grow out of Big Light Red Trout which doen't not produce a quality seed in any season nor is it productive. I was so glad to find that Candy did not acquire any of the Trout beans poor characteristics. Candy is probably moderately productive. I was always beautiful enough to make me want to keep it. I had acquired Big Light Red Trout from John Withees Wanigan Associates bean network. John Withee had been given the bean from Seed Savers Exchange member the late Ernest B. Dana of Etna, New Hampshire.


Bregenzer - Pole Dry..........................................Semi Runner - Dry

 

[ducks4you]

All the beans have now been sitting in jars, in that final air out phase for a few weeks. DD is requesting use of the dining room table, and I'm wondering if it's time to put lids on and put into cold storage treatment. I dunno, worried I might be too early. Decisions.

How Dare she ask to use the dining room table!!!!!

 

[heirloomgal]

How Dare she ask to use the dining room table!!!!!

 

[Branching Out]

We're having friends over for dinner tomorrow night. There are trays of bean, pepper, and tomato seeds pretty much everywhere. In some parts of the house you have to watch where you step. I told my husband that the beans can stay on the coffee table given that they look so nice-- but he said the beans have to go to the bedroom for the evening. Guess I'll have to compromise.