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!

 

[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).

 

[Blue-Jay]

Some bean mail today from Artorious. So his package went through the USDA inspection routine and was forwarded to me. Artorious thought he didn't even use my return address labele that I sent him last year. So heirloomgals package is I think somewhere. If my chance it got caught in a bin with tons of them stack on top it might be discovered eventually. If it makes it here I will send back the beans that @heirloomgal sent to me recently.

Anyway getting back to the bean mail.

Artorious sent me Grumbliai. I think it is a bush bean. It reminds me sort of, of flowerbugs "Lemon Slice" Also remember that bean that @heirloomgal posted months ago that had the single white stripe coming out of the one side of the eye. When I posted that photo on facebook. Guy Dirix said I know someone who has a bean that has a white stripe like that but it's a different name and color. Guy got some of that bean for me sent it to Artorious and in his package today there was that bean with the white stripe. It must be an outcross because I also got a number of segregations of this bean of different colors.


Grumbliai - Bush Dry..............................................Traje Rojo - Bush original color



Traje Rojo - Purple....................................................Traje Rojo - Olive Green


Traje Rojo - Black


Traje Rojo - Small Black. These seeds seem a bit more consitently rounder.

 

[flowerbug]

as a public service notice about Red Ryder that i purchased back in 2011-2012 from Vermont Bean Company - if you try to find it by searching you may not find any references to it any more. it looks like the seach engines no longer go back that far or something. anyways, if you use the Wayback Machine you can still find a reference to the bean in their pages, but you can't find the actual bean itself. and it looks like they've switched to another bean called Red Rover. maybe they got a letter from the manufacturers of the Red Ryder BB Gun or something and decided to not bother fighting it and just changed the bean to something else and then took down any references to it. they would have likely won had they fought it since the trademark conflict is clearly not going to happen between a BB gun and a bean... at least i don't think it would get past any jury.

the thing is, they used the same product number...

since i'm not selling commercial quantities of Red Ryder and have no catalogue to be picked on about i'll continue to offer it under the name i was given at that time.

if anyone happens to have an old Vermont Bean Company catalogue from that time a picture of the page with the Red Ryder bean on it would be fun to have.

 

[heirloomgal]

Some bean mail today from Artorious. So his package went through the USDA inspection routine and was forwarded to me. Artorious thought he didn't even use my return address labele that I sent him last year. So heirloomgals package is I think somewhere. If my chance it got caught in a bin with tons of them stack on top it might be discovered eventually. If it makes it here I will send back the beans that @heirloomgal sent to me recently.

Anyway getting back to the bean mail.

Artorious sent me Grumbliai. I think it is a bush bean. It reminds me sort of, of flowerbugs "Lemon Slice" Also remember that bean that @heirloomgal posted months ago that had the single white stripe coming out of the one side of the eye. When I posted that photo on facebook. Guy Dirix said I know someone who has a bean that has a white stripe like that but it's a different name and color. Guy got some of that bean for me sent it to Artorious and in his package today there was that bean with the white stripe. It must be an outcross because I also got a number of segregations of this bean of different colors.

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Grumbliai - Bush Dry..............................................Traje Rojo - Bush original color


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Traje Rojo - Purple....................................................Traje Rojo - Olive Green

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Traje Rojo - Black

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Traje Rojo - Small Black. These seeds seem a bit more consitently rounder.

What gorgeous beans!!! That white stripe is so unique!

If that box shows up to you, I will literally do a cartwheel. But you don't need to send any beans back even if it does @Blue-Jay. Ya know, something that occurred to me yesterday is, in years past I thought your address was also listed on the paperwork indicating the bean contents. I can't remember exactly, so if I did fail to remember to put the premade address slips in the box you'd think they still would have your address? Makes me wonder if it failed to leave the inspection station for some other reason? But, like I said, I am regrowing a lot of the beans that were in that box so will send them this fall instead either way. I'm still pulling together my full grow out list for 2025, and I'll post what 2024 network beans I'm re-growing to send again when it's done.