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

[Artorius]

Rosso del Cadore from Veneto, Italy. One of the earliest pole beans I have ever had. I picked my first dry pods in late July/early August. Only Lengua de Lobo can match it.




Murusieddu Nero - pole from Sarconi, Basilicata, Italy. This bean, like Panzaredda, was grown in a place that was too dry and the seeds are smaller than they should be.




Peau de Vache Normande. Bean found by Jean-Luc Gatard from Réaumur, France. It's not stable yet. I got the seeds from Guy Dirix from Belgium. He grew this bean as a tall bush, but all my plants started climbing to a height of about 2 meters. The color of the seeds remained unchanged. Some of the seeds looked normal...




...but other seeds had very flattened ends like cut-short beans. I wonder if this will be repeatable. That would be nice.

 

[heirloomgal]

Rosso del Cadore from Veneto, Italy. One of the earliest pole beans I have ever had. I picked my first dry pods in late July/early August. Only Lengua de Lobo can match it.

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Murusieddu Nero - pole from Sarconi, Basilicata, Italy. This bean, like Panzaredda, was grown in a place that was too dry and the seeds are smaller than they should be.

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Peau de Vache Normande. Bean found by Jean-Luc Gatard from Réaumur, France. It's not stable yet. I got the seeds from Guy Dirix from Belgium. He grew the beans as a tall bush, but all my plants started climbing to a height of about 2 meters. The color of the seeds remained unchanged. Some of the seeds looked normal...

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...but other seeds had very flattened ends like cut-short beans. I wonder if this will be repeatable. That would be nice.

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Gorgeous, beautiful seeds @Artorius.

 

[Blue-Jay]

Peau de Vache Normande. Bean found by Jean-Luc Gatard from Réaumur, France. It's not stable yet. I got the seeds from Guy Dirix from Belgium. He grew this bean as a tall bush, but all my plants started climbing to a height of about 2 meters. The color of the seeds remained unchanged. Some of the seeds looked normal but other seeds had very flattened ends like cut-short beans. I wonder if this will be repeatable. That would be nice.

I'm going to guess that the seeds with flattened ends will repeat. You might have two slightly different strains of this bean. Rounded ends and flattened ends. I have gotten this bean too but 4 seeds from Gabriel Hess in Switzerland.

 

[flowerbug]

Rosso del Cadore from Veneto, Italy. One of the earliest pole beans I have ever had. I picked my first dry pods in late July/early August. Only Lengua de Lobo can match it.
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a pole version of Early Warwick? very nice beans all of them.

 

[heirloomgal]

A new bean I purchased, originally bought from a market in Malawi; it goes by the name 'Malawi Mix'. We'll see what's actually in the packet but I do like the diversity in here and the muted, earthy colors. These multicolored mixes have sort of grown on me, like Beefy Resilient Grex and Ugandan Bantu. Hurry up spring!

 

[heirloomgal]

A new bean I purchased, originally bought from a market in Malawi; it goes by the name 'Malawi Mix'. We'll see what's actually in the packet but I do like the diversity in here and the muted, earthy colors. These multicolored mixes have sort of grown on me, like Beefy Resilient Grex and Ugandan Bantu. Hurry up spring!
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[flowerbug]

... These multicolored mixes have sort of grown on me, like Beefy Resilient Grex and Ugandan Bantu. Hurry up spring!

if you want to keep the mix of colors going longer term it will help to discard most or all browns before replanting.

a few years ago i discarded most of my no name brown beans that had come about from plantings - even when i was going through and culling my collection i was taking a few seeds of each and putting them in yet another sample that i would save (i might still have that one someplace - it'd be pretty old so if anything were to sprout i'd be surprised).