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.

 

[jbrobin09]

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.

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What little pots do you use in the holes, @Blue-Jay ?

 

[flowerbug]

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.

i can verify this is an early bean. the several times i've grown it it was among the first to flower and set pods.

 

[Blue-Jay]

What little pots do you use in the holes, @Blue-Jay ?

The little pots will be 8 oz. Styrofoam cups. I will use potting mix to fill the cups and plant one seed in each cup.

 

[Blue-Jay]

Red Calico - Pole Lima. Left Photo. This lima matures in over 100 days in season with other limas I have like Florida Specckled. I obtained this bean from a Seed Savers Exchange member from Tennessee in 2011 T.B Thweat. This family has grown this lima since 1790. This lima is said to have originated in South Carolina. This years grower is from Albion, Indiana.

Red Rajma - Large Bush Dry. Send to me by a grower in South Africa in 2013. Originally country of origin is India. This years grower is from Freiberg, Germany.


Red Calico..........................................................Red Rajma

 

[Triffid]

Ashamed to admit I was sitting here for far too long trying to figure out how on earth you were going to dry beans on those racks, Russ. Then I realised the holes are for pots, not ventilation.

I really like how they're elevated with legs; is this so you can stack them while the seedlings have germinated?

Because I use 9cm square pots I was going to get myself 10 of these industrial carry trays but I'm now immediately sold on the utility of legs for transport, so may have to evolve this into a winter DIY project... only drawback is I'm not sure I can beat the price with my own materials.