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

[jbrobin09]

@flowerbug I like the beans in the last photo - center bottom cup. Really nice mix of pinks and peach in a good sized bean. Have you cooked any of these to add to your records? OOh, also the second from the bottom on the far right is lovely!

 

[flowerbug]

@flowerbug I like the beans in the last photo - center bottom cup. Really nice mix of pinks and peach in a good sized bean. Have you cooked any of these to add to your records? OOh, also the second from the bottom on the far right is lovely!

the only ones i've cooked would be the ones i have grown in bulk before.

all of these are mostly 2nd generation to where i started with just a few beans so those would not have been eaten yet. anything that looked like a Purple Dove bean that didn't have distinctive colors, shapes or seed coat would have gone into the bulk PD flats (i have about 12 lbs of those i think).

i agree with you on the one on the far right. superb color, shape, pattern. hope they will repeat when grown out again. that's an outcross grown from Painted Pony and some other bean which has spun off quite a few variants so far.

 

[flowerbug]

@flowerbug I like the beans in the last photo - center bottom cup. Really nice mix of pinks and peach in a good sized bean. Have you cooked any of these to add to your records? OOh, also the second from the bottom on the far right is lovely!

the pics i post here are links to smaller sized thumbnails - larger pics you can get via my website bean page (i usually post pics there first before referencing them from any other place).

but here is last pic in larger size...

 

[heirloomgal]

It's been such a busy couple months that I've barely been able to swoon over my newly acquired beans for the upcoming season! @Blue-Jay I'm getting worried my USDA box is taking so long to get there! My goodness, this is a record long time. I really hope it gets there soon; I was waiting for it to arrive before I send the network bean list for 2025. Should I send it anyway? Not sure what to do.

Took a couple quick upcoming photos in the lovely window sunlight we've been getting as of late. So nice to catch a few rays again, being such a grey winter as it's been. Golly I am so excited about the upcoming growing season!

'Blue Sword' bean, which I got from a wonderful lady in Spain. (Not a canavalia type though despite the name.)

'Friese Brune Woudboon', I forget the growth type, bush I think. Love that milk chocolate color.

And 'Babushka', a Russian bean. Think it's a bush too, but not 100% sure. Love the name. I've always had a fascination with nesting dolls, and this name for some reason always reminds me of those.

 

[Blue-Jay]

@Blue-Jay I'm getting worried my USDA box is taking so long to get there! My goodness, this is a record long time. I really hope it gets there soon; I was waiting for it to arrive before I send the network bean list for 2025. Should I send it anyway? Not sure what to do.

Your first package is at the Linden inspection station. It's been there since January 21. I'm sure they are going to forward it to me. I made a trade of beans with a gal from BC and it went through the Linden inspection process and I've gotten the package long time ago. I'm not concerned about your first package. It should come along sometime. It might be the this time of the year that it's a very busy time for them.

Maybe you might be interested in another Appalachian bean I acquired the first Saturday in November in Berea, Kentucky. It's called Roger Wynn Greasy. Very small seeds. I just wonder if the beans were grown in some kind of soil that made the beans small. Perhaps your soil would increase seed size.


Roger Wynn Greasy - Pole

 

[heirloomgal]

Your first package is at the Linden inspection station. It's been there since January 21. I'm sure they are going to forward it to me. I made a trade of beans with a gal from BC and it went through the Linden inspection process and I've gotten the package long time ago. I'm not concerned about your first package. It should come along sometime. It might be the this time of the year that it's a very busy time for them.

Maybe you might be interested in another Appalachian bean I acquired the first Saturday in November in Berea, Kentucky. It's called Roger Wynn Greasy. Very small seeds. I just wonder if the beans were grown in some kind of soil that made the beans small. Perhaps your soil would increase seed size.

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Roger Wynn Greasy - Pole

Yes! Interested for sure! I love the Appalachian beans. Do greasy beans take longer to mature than non-greasy types?

 

[Blue-Jay]

Yes! Interested for sure! I love the Appalachian beans. Do greasy beans take longer to mature than non-greasy types?

Greasy beans don't take any longer to mature than the non-greasy types.

 

[P Suckling]

Yes, that is where they're from! Thank you for the translation help! I have mostly relied on google translate, with varying degrees of success. Does Mechelse Tros really mean 'a bunch of Malinois'? That seems odd, but it would be sort of neat too, I like Malinois!

From Mechelen https://www.google.com/search?q=mec...0MjY5ajBqMTWoAgiwAgE&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

 

[ruralmamma]

Your first package is at the Linden inspection station. It's been there since January 21. I'm sure they are going to forward it to me. I made a trade of beans with a gal from BC and it went through the Linden inspection process and I've gotten the package long time ago. I'm not concerned about your first package. It should come along sometime. It might be the this time of the year that it's a very busy time for them.

Maybe you might be interested in another Appalachian bean I acquired the first Saturday in November in Berea, Kentucky. It's called Roger Wynn Greasy. Very small seeds. I just wonder if the beans were grown in some kind of soil that made the beans small. Perhaps your soil would increase seed size.

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Roger Wynn Greasy - Pole

If those seeds were grown in 2024, the small size could be due to drought. I was sorting through my seed last week and noticed a significant difference in size of one bean in particular compared to previous years.

 

[heirloomgal]

I do find the amount of nitrogen and trace minerals in the soil can also make a significant difference in bean size. Many times I've planted quite small bean seeds in my soil and yet harvest seeds from the plants that are significantly bigger. That happens quite a lot.