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

[flowerbug]

i got some of The Great Combining done on the 1st. several hours of uninterrupted bean time and i can get a lot accomplished.

i jumped the gun a bit because i still do have more beans to sort but i ran out of some small flats and containers so while i was able to get more containers down out of the big box of them i have on the shelf i could not get any more small flats without combining some of those and once i got started on that it was too hard to stop until my back got tired of sitting.

yes, that's my bean story and i'm sticking to it...

i have left about 15 flats/small boxes with various selections and cups of sorted varieties. any of the bulk beans that had been gone through i could combine with other bulk flats already set up so that also helped.

by the time i get done i hope i have only about a hundred different sample cups and then the bulk beans in either 1 quart yogurt containers or in larger flats. i say i hope, but i don't know yet... considering i planted only 35 selections i'd hoped to keep the mayhem down to maybe 70 results. heheheh... we'll see.

 

[Decoy1]

Van Gogh's Olive - Semi Runner Dry. Left Photo. This bean was probably named by Joesph Simcox who collected the bean somewhere overseas. The inspiration for the name to me obviously comes from the painter Van Gogh and his paintings of olive trees. The bean itself is productive. This years growers is from Pella, Iowa.


Veitch's Climbing - Pole Dry. Right Photo. A beautiful seed from Beans And Herbs in the UK. I have searched the internet for any history of the bean but can not actually find much of anything about the bean. I did run into one article on the bean and it is simply named "Veitch" by the author of the article. Same bean as this one the seed color and shape matched perfectly. The Article is on a blog site called Mark's Veg Plot. If you click on the authors name Mark Willis you will find all kinds of blogs written by other people. This years grower is from Auburn, Indiana.

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Van Gogh's Olive...............................................Veitch's Climbing

I’m not sure whether I’m mentioning things you know already but Veitch is a name which occurs in an English variety of pea as well as bean They were a large significant seed house in the nineteenth and earlier twentieth centuries in England. They were known for plant-hunting as well as hybridising activities. Veitch’s Climbing is probably a result of breeding they initiated.

Veitch Nurseries - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

There is a pea called Veitch’s Perfection.

 

[flowerbug]

yay! at last i was able to get some pictures taken after sorting and combining some beans. i still have a lot more to do, but these are the start.


these are a red/pink patterned Painted Pony outcross

a similar bean, but no dark eye ring.

and yet another Painted Pony outcross.

this bean really surprised me in the color is very dark green and then patterned with black. how that came about as a cross with Painted Pony i don't really know, but i'd not seen anything like it before.

four similar beans that are likely children of Lavender. the colors have been interesting coming from these Lavender outcrosses.

grays, blues, green shades of color. more Lavender children.

Red and green real faint on this selection, yes, another likely Lavender child.

for these they might have been children of Vermont Appaloosa and some other bean.

a more dark selection, which might be the same bean.

 

[Zeedman]

Apparently you have very beansy bees, @flowerbug .