2025 Little Easy Bean Network - Growers Of The Future Will Be Glad We Saved

[Artorius]

In my free time I will be showing my beans from 2024. Finally

Shelleasy x Soldier network bean.
I had eight plants. Five of them grew as semi runners and the seeds were the same color as on the @Blue-Jay website.




Three plants grew as true bush and the seeds looked like this...




I assume the first ones are the correct seeds.

 

[heirloomgal]

In my free time I will be showing my beans from 2024. Finally

Shelleasy x Soldier network bean.
I had eight plants. Five of them grew as semi runners and the seeds were the same color as on the @Blue-Jay website.

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Three plants grew as true bush and the seeds looked like this...

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I assume the first ones are the correct seeds.

Both stunning.

 

[Blue-Jay]

Three plants grew as true bush and the seeds looked like this...

Wow all your beans are beautilful ! The beans that came out of the bush plants look just like Dana's Soldier.

 

[flowerbug]

In my free time I will be showing my beans from 2024. Finally

Shelleasy x Soldier network bean.
I had eight plants. Five of them grew as semi runners and the seeds were the same color as on the @Blue-Jay website.
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they have been large bush bean plants for me when i have grown them. they've not been super productive beans in our heavy clay soil.

 

[Artorius]

In my case, these five plants produced distinct, not very long vines. I stuck a few rods in the ground around which they wrapped themselves.

 

[heirloomgal]

We had our Seedy Sunday yesterday. Oh boy! What a day! I talked for nearly 7 hours straight, when I got home I felt like I was recuperating from some kind of bizarre throat surgery gone wrong. It has happened that I've developed laryngitis at the end of the day during these events, so I'm grateful I didn't get that! Air in the college must have been quite dry. Was a good day, and the seeds really moved. Many. many lessons learned too. What to bring, what not to bring, etc. Your beans went into many hands @Blue-Jay! Folks who love beans really love them!

 

[Blue-Jay]

Your beans went into many hands @Blue-Jay! Folks who love beans really love them!

We call them seed swaps here but there is very little swapping going on. Most of the vendors sell seed at our swaps. Did you sell seed or was it a give away affair? If you sold seed I hope you got enough for them.

 

[flowerbug]

We had our Seedy Sunday yesterday. Oh boy! What a day! I talked for nearly 7 hours straight, when I got home I felt like I was recuperating from some kind of bizarre throat surgery gone wrong. It has happened that I've developed laryngitis at the end of the day during these events, so I'm grateful I didn't get that! Air in the college must have been quite dry. Was a good day, and the seeds really moved. Many. many lessons learned too. What to bring, what not to bring, etc. Your beans went into many hands @Blue-Jay! Folks who love beans really love them!

yes, that is how i often feel at the end of a seed swap day. my voice is usually shot from talking so much and i'm also pretty beat up from being on my feet or sitting so much - either one is bad for me if done too long...

 

[heirloomgal]

We call them seed swaps here but there is very little swapping going on. Most of the vendors sell seed at our swaps. Did you sell seed or was it a give away affair? If you sold seed I hope you got enough for them.

The way they are set up across the country is pretty much the same - there is a central table where people bring seed packets, and for each seed packet you bring for that table you can take a packet. All along the perimeter of the room are vendor tables where people sell seeds, or horticultural related supplies. So it's kind of a mix of both, in my case I was a vendor who was selling seeds. I charged $4 a packet, and I did pretty well.

The trick with these things is to have the display of seeds arranged in such a way that people can easily see all that you have, because there is so much going on in the place & people are visually overwhelmed. It's very easy for them to miss things if you aren't set up just right. I brought a ton of seeds and finding a way to have it all arranged in my particular spot proved rather challenging, but in the end, I 'd say it was quite successful. And I know what to do better next time. If I can swing it, there is another one 3 hours away, north of me, that I may go to in a month.