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

[Triffid]

funny that the name for beans seems to be pupas.

I thought so too wonder if its etymology is the same as for insect pupae

 

[heirloomgal]

I thought so too wonder if its etymology is the same as for insect pupae

There is a bit of overlap in appearance.....

 

[BeanieQueen]

@BeanieQueen
I bought my seeds here. I like to support small initiatives like this.

Zemnieku saimniecība "Zutiņi"

Zutiņi ir neliela ģimenes saimniecība Krimuldas novadā, kas graudu pārstrādē izmanto sentēvu metodes. Saimniecība ir uzņemta SLOW FOOD kustībā.

zutini.lv

This site also has recipes for bean dishes.

Thank you! Nice homepage.. and interesting.. but one is really lost without a translator.
I am really tempted now to order something (@Triffid knew it already)

 

[heirloomgal]

I discovered today that the 2 most ubiquitous beans we have here, maybe in lots of places - Kentucky Wonder and Blue Lake, which are literally on every single seed rack - actually have a stabilized cross called 'Kentucky Blue'. Wow. I had no idea that there was such a thing.

 

[Artorius]

I thought so too wonder if its etymology is the same as for insect pupae

In Polish, "pupa" is a delicate term for the part of the body on which we sit

Languages are fun. Polish and Czech are similar to each other, theoretically we can understand each other, but attention is needed because some words pronounced the same have the opposite or completely different meaning. This can lead to disaster, especially in male-female relationships.
For example, the Polish word szukać (to look for) and the Czech šukat (to f**k). So if a Pole says to a Czech girl szukam cię wszędzie (I'm looking for you everywhere) he can get hit hard because she will understand... you know what. It's similar when he tells a Czech girl pięknie pachniesz (you smell nice). In Czech páchnout means to stink. Sometimes diplomacy is a difficult task
Besides, the Czech language works like a laughing gas on Poles. I will never forget when we once watched "The Empire Strikes Back" with Czech dubbing at a party. We almost died laughing. I don't know, maybe it's a matter of accent, maybe word endings. Czechs also find Polish funny.

 

[heirloomgal]

I don't normally get much beans off the in-store seed racks because the selection is always so limited, and it seems to be the exact same thing every single year. However, I found a couple gems this week. Berton Seeds imports all its seeds from Italy, and I have found their beans to be very good, when I've grown them. So I decided to get all they have which I haven't tried. The yellow wax is Carson, that's new for me. I thought Kitchen King and Big Kahuna were rather creative names from Burpee this year so I got some of those too.

 

[flowerbug]

i am sending some more bean packets to send off to a request from Wisconsin. two of the packets will be a bunch of Dominoes and Domino Children and then Monster and Monster Children. i'm going to get pictures of them before i ship them out. with this i am paring down that part of my collection from about 30 2oz containers down to 5 for the Dominoes and Children and then for the Monster and Children i hope to get it to about the same. instead of having two shoe boxes full it will be just those few left. some of them have given me some interesting follow up beans (Tinker's Fire might be one of them). i'll keep those containers as a reference and grow a few of each from time to time.

 

[Artorius]

Two more beans selected by @Blue-Jay
Golden Bear Lake - bush bean. Seeds freshly shelled from pods look white. A delicate light beige pattern appears after some time.




Gray Mountain - pole. Quite a late bean, but I managed to harvest a lot of nice seeds.




Frost - pole. This is my entire harvest. As I wrote earlier, the plants were badly damaged by hailstorm. They regenerated, but it was too late. Most of the seeds come from pods that were not fully ripe. Anyway, it is better than it was, but it is not yet what I would like to achieve.

 

[flowerbug]

no, i don't have Blaugraue any more.

haha! i do have some after all! just found them. about 20 seeds grown in 2020.

 

[Blue-Jay]

Golden Bear Lake - bush bean. Seeds freshly shelled from pods look white. A delicate light beige pattern appears after some time.

The more time you give this bean to age at room temperature that more color you get out of it. I think the seed I sent you proably sat about two months before I put them in the freezer. They would probably darken more if left to age a bit more. I should take a few seeds out of my freezer and let them sit for six months to a year and see how much color could be gotten from them in that amount of time.