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

[BeanieQueen]

@BeanieQueen, I can't answer your question because I don't have Hewitt bean.

Oh, you don't have? But everybody should have some!
As I see, @Triffid has already begun to take care of this problem. Very good! If you should care for an additional sample, do let me know.

 

[Dahlia]

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.

I've never seen beans with an upside-down exclamation point before!

 

[Blue-Jay]

I've never seen beans with an upside-down exclamation point before!

Sometimes I think patterns and shadings of color in beans just might be endless.

 

[Blue-Jay]

So Guy Dirix post this information on facebook about this bean with the upside down exclamation mark.

It is a bush bean from Cusco-Peru , from the gene bank CIAT -Colombia- In 2016.

Lieven Decrick from Pepingen-Belgium- noticed this bizarre bean in the lists of CIAT. He obtained seeds and sent me some to experiment. The beans gave moderate to bad results in Meise-Belgium. They flowered very late and the 20 L.pots were in the autumn placed in the greenhouse.

By seed exchange with Solja Kaltenbach from Bienenbüttel they ended up in Germany. Solja had more success with this bean and the harvest was remarkable. She even made jewels (necklace) from them. In the following years she obtained a black variant and then also several 'segregations'. She sent me all those variants. Solja said, "Perhaps there would be interest from a bean lover", and yes… in 2024 Russ Crow contacted me to swap these with others from his impressive collection.

 

[heirloomgal]

A new bean arrived today, Elortza. Comes from the village of Elortza in Spain's Basque Autonomous Community. It's a bush dry bean.

 

[Branching Out]

A new bean arrived today, Elortza. Comes from the village of Elortza in Spain's Basque Autonomous Community. Iy's a bush dry bean.
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That's a gorgeous bean. I looked up ortza, and it translates from the Basque as 'rainbow'. Maybe they get lots of rainbows in the village of Elortza??

 

[ducks4you]

I've never seen beans with an upside-down exclamation point before!

Sure you have! It's common in Spanish script to have an upside down exclamation point or an upside down question mark at the beginning of any sentence that also has it at the end.
¡Hola!

¿Cómo Te Llamas?​

**Ducks, the literal**

 

[Artorius]

Tarahumara Bakamina
One of two surviving half-runner beans, the second one was Tinker's Fire. The others were washed away by water during a heavy storm. The seeds I sowed came from some original Native Seeds/SEARCH seeds that I got from @saritabee some time ago. I had a very good harvest.




In 2020 I had Tarahumara Bakamina from Deaflora seeds. In my opinion it is not the same bean, the shape of the seeds is completely different. It looks more like Montezuma Red or something similar.



Tarahumara Purple - another pole bean from the Tarahumara nation.




Karachaganak Bush
I have been selecting this strain for four years. Every year I chose and sowed the best seeds. Now I will do it for the fifth time and if this time it repeats all the features, I will consider it stable.

 

[heirloomgal]

Got the first draft of the 2025 bean list done! There's some left to add yet, but this is the bulk of them.

Pole Beans:

1. Ukrainian Pole
2. Botomi Georgia#1 - Network Bean
3. Black Snake Bean
4. Badda Nera
5. Domaci Cucak
6. Babuschka
7. Mombacher Speck
8. A Cornetto Largo Verde
9. Bosnian
10. Frye’s Golden Goose
11. Mechelse Tros
12. Karntner Butter
13. Atlas
14. Red Striped Greasy
15. Rose
16. Bob & Mary
17. Bela Putersnica
18. Bonne Bouche
19. Bragancano
20. Brutte Buon
21. Grady Bailey Greasy Cutshort
22. Green Albufeira
23. Hewitt
24. Klapprots Graubeige
25. Olivia
26. Ortner Speck
27. St Anthony
28. Schone Von Richigen
29. Juanita Smith
30. Youdou #3
31. Speckled Tolosan
32. Butterbrodt (Blue Sword)
33. Vitalis - snap & dry
34. Rochet - Buenos Aires Rojo
35. Stripy Snap, snap & dry
36. Blue Gold Star - Network Bean
37. Fagioli Ruviotti - Network Bean
38. Botosani Cyclops - Network Bean
39. Perle du Marbach
40. Pink Tenders - Network Bean
41. Carolina Red Stick - Network Bean
42. Pink Tip Greasy - Network Bean
43. Barry Island - Network Bean
44. Ora’s Speckled - Network Bean
45. Potomac - Network Bean
46. Kruger’s Speckled Caseknife - Network Bean
47. Wendy’s Late Brother In Law’s Bean
48. Bobis D’Albenga - Pole version
49. Riggin’s Stick - Resilient Seeds Version
50. Goose - Resilient Seeds / Different than the other Goose bean
51. Fagy Utan
52. Winterfare
53. Tirana’s Rotviolette
54. Gialet
55. Bezova Ze Smolijanu
56. Siebenburgen Karnten (one seed left!)
57. Ohio Pole, possibly
58. Pisterzo
59. Coco Gros Sophie
60. Big Mama
61. Stangenbohne Ilanz
62. Oude Solvensee Boterboon
63. Matilda
64. Barba di Frate
65. Christitei
66. Blue Gold Star - Network Bean
67. Kirschbohne
68. Ekaternoslav
69. Limka
70. Succotash
71. Custodia
72. Vieux Flippe
73. Dule - Network Bean
74. Volga German Siberian - Network Bean
75. Blaugraue - Network Bean
76. Blue & White of Bernardo - Network Bean
77. Grandma Gina

Bush Beans:

1. Cherokee Wax
2. Mackenzie Roma - Brown Seeded
3. Olga’s Yugoslavian - Network Bean
4. Pisarecka Zluto Luske
5. Dikpense
6. Scarlet Beauty
7. Early Warwick
8. Early Vermillion
9. Lillooet
10. Imbotyi Mbayiyana - Network Bean
11. Elortza
12. Brighstone Bean
13. Stoltzfus String
14. Golden Teepee
15. Faba do Marisco
16. Gross Brothers Vermont Cranberry
17. Saskatchewan Dry
18. Rebhuhnauge
19. Friese Brune Woudboun
20. Verdolino
21. Babcia Aniela
22. Oland Swedish Brown
23. Louvain
24. Zolfino
25. Super Deuil
26. Blokkerder Boon
27. Mor Kristin
28. Wstega
29. Znichka
30. Rouge Von Paris
31. Mahlathini Tongue of Fire
32. Spanish Tolosana - Bush Version
33. White Beauty
34. Kabarika
35. Sycamore Mascara
36. Dakota Bumble

Semi Runner:

1. Hopi Purple
2. Zuni Shalako
3. Non Tough Half Runner
4. Wild Pigeon
5. Aura
6. Old Joe Clark
7. Nigel - Semi-runner version from Germany
8. Littleton

Runner Bean:
Tender Star / Ponkboon Kollumer/ Sakaguchi Kang Wong undecided

Fava Bean:
Joseph Simcox Greystone Fava

 

[Dahlia]

Got the first draft of the 2025 bean list done! There's some left to add yet, but this is the bulk of them.

Pole Beans:

1. Ukrainian Pole
2. Botomi Georgia#1 - Network Bean
3. Black Snake Bean
4. Badda Nera
5. Domaci Cucak
6. Babuschka
7. Mombacher Speck
8. A Cornetto Largo Verde
9. Bosnian
10. Frye’s Golden Goose
11. Mechelse Tros
12. Karntner Butter
13. Atlas
14. Red Striped Greasy
15. Rose
16. Bob & Mary
17. Bela Putersnica
18. Bonne Bouche
19. Bragancano
20. Brutte Buon
21. Grady Bailey Greasy Cutshort
22. Green Albufeira
23. Hewitt
24. Klapprots Graubeige
25. Olivia
26. Ortner Speck
27. St Anthony
28. Schone Von Richigen
29. Juanita Smith
30. Youdou #3
31. Speckled Tolosan
32. Butterbrodt (Blue Sword)
33. Vitalis - snap & dry
34. Rochet - Buenos Aires Rojo
35. Stripy Snap, snap & dry
36. Blue Gold Star - Network Bean
37. Fagioli Ruviotti - Network Bean
38. Botosani Cyclops - Network Bean
39. Perle du Marbach
40. Pink Tenders - Network Bean
41. Carolina Red Stick - Network Bean
42. Pink Tip Greasy - Network Bean
43. Barry Island - Network Bean
44. Ora’s Speckled - Network Bean
45. Potomac - Network Bean
46. Kruger’s Speckled Caseknife - Network Bean
47. Wendy’s Late Brother In Law’s Bean
48. Bobis D’Albenga - Pole version
49. Riggin’s Stick - Resilient Seeds Version
50. Goose - Resilient Seeds / Different than the other Goose bean
51. Fagy Utan
52. Winterfare
53. Tirana’s Rotviolette
54. Gialet
55. Bezova Ze Smolijanu
56. Siebenburgen Karnten (one seed left!)
57. Ohio Pole, possibly
58. Pisterzo
59. Coco Gros Sophie
60. Big Mama
61. Stangenbohne Ilanz
62. Oude Solvensee Boterboon
63. Matilda
64. Barba di Frate
65. Christitei
66. Blue Gold Star - Network Bean
67. Kirschbohne
68. Ekaternoslav
69. Limka
70. Succotash
71. Custodia
72. Vieux Flippe
73. Dule - Network Bean
74. Volga German Siberian - Network Bean
75. Blaugraue - Network Bean
76. Blue & White of Bernardo - Network Bean
77. Grandma Gina

Bush Beans:

1. Cherokee Wax
2. Mackenzie Roma - Brown Seeded
3. Olga’s Yugoslavian - Network Bean
4. Pisarecka Zluto Luske
5. Dikpense
6. Scarlet Beauty
7. Early Warwick
8. Early Vermillion
9. Lillooet
10. Imbotyi Mbayiyana - Network Bean
11. Elortza
12. Brighstone Bean
13. Stoltzfus String
14. Golden Teepee
15. Faba do Marisco
16. Gross Brothers Vermont Cranberry
17. Saskatchewan Dry
18. Rebhuhnauge
19. Friese Brune Woudboun
20. Verdolino
21. Babcia Aniela
22. Oland Swedish Brown
23. Louvain
24. Zolfino
25. Super Deuil
26. Blokkerder Boon
27. Mor Kristin
28. Wstega
29. Znichka
30. Rouge Von Paris
31. Mahlathini Tongue of Fire
32. Spanish Tolosana - Bush Version
33. White Beauty
34. Kabarika
35. Sycamore Mascara
36. Dakota Bumble

Semi Runner:

1. Hopi Purple
2. Zuni Shalako
3. Non Tough Half Runner
4. Wild Pigeon
5. Aura
6. Old Joe Clark
7. Nigel - Semi-runner version from Germany
8. Littleton

Runner Bean:
Tender Star / Ponkboon Kollumer/ Sakaguchi Kang Wong undecided

Fava Bean:
Joseph Simcox Greystone Fava

Are you planning to grow all of those this year!? If so you must have a huge and amazing garden!!!