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

[Blue-Jay]

Galloway - Pole Dry. Left Photo. This bean came from one of the outcrossed beans that Will Bonsall sent to me in 2015 . I named this one in 2017. Some of the Galloway samples that I grow or send out come back with only one off type. Some of the seed samples don't have any off types after growing at all. Maybe close to stable. This years grower was From De Soto Wisconsin.

Giant Nilgiri - Pole Dry. Photo Right. Bean from Indian around the area of the Blue Mountains. Productive with large seed almost the size of a Kidney bean. This years grow was from De Soto Wisconsin.


Galloway..............................................................Giant Nilgiri

 

[Blue-Jay]

Gopher - Pole Left Photo. Another of the Will Bonsall crosses. This years grow out also contained a similar pattern but a lighter shade. This bean was named in 2016 by Amanda Winland, of Mount Alto, West Virginia. Still not totaly stable. This years grow was from De Soto, Wisconsin.

Grape - Pole Dry. Grape was sent to me by Debbie Groat of Rhodes, Michigan. She makes beautiful bean jewelry. This years growers were from Mason, Michigan and Hallowell, Maine.


Gopher.................................................................Grape

 

[heirloomgal]

@Decoy1 @Blue-Jay Looks like there is good news on the horizon for mail services to resume! There is a back to work order from the Canada Industrial Relations Board. I don't know 100% if they will be forced to comply, but it's looking good. I have a feeling my package to you @Decoy1 will be released from the hold it's in and go into circulation again next week, and I'll get your package off this upcoming week as well @Blue-Jay. What a relief! They won't move as fast cause I'm sure there will be a huge backlog, but better a turtle pace than no pace at all.

 

[Decoy1]

Great news. Every finger crossed. And I hope mine to you is able to crawl forward amongst the millions which must be held somewhere. Not to mention all the rest of the mail in this pre-Christmas period, which must be on its way to you.

 

[Blue-Jay]

Yay ! The Canadian mail strike might be over. That's good news. That was a long one.

 

[Blue-Jay]

Headrick Greasy Cutshort - Pole. Left Photo. Appalachian variety. Very productive. This is another bean that I got from the Remy Orlowski collection Via Karen Golden of Highland, Michigan in 2022. This years grower is from Mason, Michigan.

Ice - Semi Runner. Right photo. Very light green pods almost white. Considered to be in the wax bean group. Can be used as a snap bean if picked very young. Develops strings very rapidly. Dates back to at least 1845. Does make a good dry bean. This years grower is from Blyth, Ontario.


Headrick Greasy Cutshort...................................Ice

 

[Zeedman]

Came across this member of the bean family while browsing. I've never seen anything that made me long more to live in a tropical climate. Well, except for mangoes.
Ice cream bean

Beans really are the magical fruit.

 

[flowerbug]

Came across this member of the bean family while browsing. I've never seen anything that made me long more to live in a tropical climate. Well, except for mangoes.
Ice cream bean

Beans really are the magical fruit.

word of the day "guabero" (lucky person) @digitS' ...

thanks for interesting link @Zeedman !

 

[Blue-Jay]

Inca Pea - Pole Dry. Left Photo. If you remember me mentioning the 30 pounds of Joseph Simcox beans I picked up in February in 2022. This is one of the survivors that has been refreshed a little this year. There was another one I had posted earlier maybe two weeks ago called Menenga that wound up being a bush bean. That is another survivor of the Simcox 30 pound seed collection that was refreshed this year. This year grower who grew out some older seed of this bean this past summer was from Mason, Michigan.

J. Carroll's West Virginia - Pole lima. Right Photo. Someone has told me that this bean relates somehow to the movie October Sky. The true story of a young fellow growing up in Coal City, West Virginia being inspired by the launch of the Russian satellite Sputnik in 1957. He had a group of friends and they worked on rockets and launched them. Him and his friends were known as the Rocket Boys. He grew up to actually become a Nasa rocket engineer. I don't know if the actor who portrayed the main character in the film had this lima bean and named it in honor after one of the rocket boys Jimmy Carroll in Coal City or if someone who knew the Rocket Boys. Gave it this name. I would like to hear the story straight as I don't know if I have all the details correct as it relates to the name of this bean. Certainly a wonder story for this bean if it indeed is named after one of the original Rocket Boys portrayed in the film October Sky. However this is a beautiful lima and it was renewed by a grower in Albion, Indiana this past summer.


Inca Pea....................................................................J. Carroll's West Virginia

 

[heirloomgal]

Oh boy oh boy oh boy, it's official. The strike is over tomorrow and mail resumes function Thursday. Hip hip hooray, the beans will definitely all be on their way.