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

[Decoy1]

I’ll keep that in mind, @Decoy1 I’m still fairly new so I don’t have quantities to share yet but maybe next year. I’m closing in on 200 varieties but @heirloomgal has me beat by a mile, lol.

200 varieties doesn't sound 'fairly new' to me! @heirloomgal's growing is prodigious .

 

[ruralmamma]

While we haven't had a postal strike, our little post office has been "temporarily closed" for several months pending a new location. A post office eleven miles in the opposite direction I usually travel handles our mail and is only open for a few hours a day so definitely not convenient. To make matters worse I have a small package of seed ready to send but never remember to pick it up when I'm heading to town. So I guess I'm just going to stick it in my bag and hopefully it will get mailed soon. In the meantime it's almost seed starting time for the onions!

 

[Blue-Jay]

Pisararecka Zlutoluske - Bush Snap Wax- Photo Left. Early in season. Hungaria variety. I been told it maybe the earliest for yellow snaps. Obtained this bean from a Pennsylvania grower in 2016. This years grower is from Seattle, Washington.

Pride Pole - Pole Snap - Photo Right. The bean originates from a family in Kentucky who's family has grown this bean for over 100 years by way of relatives in Arkansas. Supposedly good for canning and freezing. This year grower is from Lily, Kentucky.


Pisarecka Zlutoluske............................................Pride Pole

 

[Blue-Jay]

I got the last of the bean racks assembled this morning. I put together a few of them Monday and Tuesday. The last four of them this morning. Now I can move 198 bean seedlings in and out of the house during the period in early May when I want to get pole beans started early to plant later in May. I think they look Marvelous. All the length, width and leg pieces of wood are cut from expired pole bean steaks. Steaks that broke or got too short to grow pole beans on.