The 2014 Little Easy Bean Network - Get New Beans On The Cheap

[Hal]

Things are great with my beans! Ive had to stake up all mybush beans I should have a great harvest

That sounds like a good sign! What bush beans do you have growing?

 

[TheSeedObsesser]

Very interesting about the Armenian Black beans, I'm glad that one's doing well.

I've got both flowers and pods on most of my bush beans now. The Black Valentines were the first to flower and set pods, the largest pod is about six inches. All three Prescott's Old Family Heirloom plants are doing great (no bug problems or disease, growing nice and strong) I should be seeing the first flower buds any time now.

 

[Blue-Jay]

That sounds like a good sign! What bush beans do you have growing?

These are the beans that Honeycomb is growing this year.

Woza Sugar Bean
Lazy Housewife Red
Cape Sugar Bean
Brazilian Black

 

[the1honeycomb]

HA thanks Bluejay77 full of beans I am excited I know that I'll have enough for both of us!

 

[Hal]

These are the beans that Honeycomb is growing this year.

Woza Sugar Bean
Lazy Housewife Red
Cape Sugar Bean
Brazilian Black

That is quite an interesting selection, I'm familiar with Lazy Housewife but I have not heard of Cape Sugar or Woza Sugar.

 

[Blue-Jay]

That is quite an interesting selection, I'm familiar with Lazy Housewife but I have not heard of Cape Sugar or Woza Sugar.

The Cape Sugar is a bean that is white on the bottom half of the seed opposite of the eye, and the top half colored around the eye like a horticultural or Cranberry bean. The Woza Sugar is colored like what we call a horticultural or Cranberry bean. Light tan background with with red speckles and streaks over the entire surface of the tan background. These two beans are from South Africa.

 

[Hal]

The Cape Sugar is a bean that is white on the bottom half of the seed opposite of the eye, and the top half colored around the eye like a horticultural or Cranberry bean. The Woza Sugar is colored like what we call a horticultural or Cranberry bean. Light tan background with with red speckles and streaks over the entire surface of the tan background. These two beans are from South Africa.

Thank you. Some of the African material has good heat and humidity tolerance.

 

[catjac1975]

Inventory of all the beans I have planted so far in my garden, by bed. I have not yet processed this inventory to add up the total number of each variety. These are all the beans I got from Russ, and some from Digit, some from SeedO, and some from MAR who is Manuel Rivera who recently moved to the states from Puerto Rico. I have one more bed I definitely will make before June, and one or 2 other smaller beds I might get to making in time for this season.

I didn't get the camera out for several photos I wanted to take, but I was plugging along at getting a bed planted today, lassooing some berry plants, making this inventory, and doing some preliminary work to get the next bed started.

I made this list by bed and wanted to photo a hand drawn graphic of the beds and their numbers. I'll get to that hopefully soon.

BED 1

3 African Premiere beige outcross
3 Chocolate Main
3 Alice Sunshine
3 Orca Spotted
3 Owl's Head 2013 w/swirls
3 Midnight Black Turtle Soup
3 Billingsgate
3 Flamboyant #3
3 Maine Sunset
3 African Premiere Outcross #3
3 Tobacco Patch
3 Magpie
3 Chocolate 2013 #4
3 Pale Face
3 Red Adzuki half runner

WINE BARREL A

2 Nippersink Outcross
2 Frauenbohne horticultural outcross

WINE BARREL B

1 Chickasaw Outcross #2
2 Bird Egg Relative #2

BED 2

3 Lila Stuart
3 Mrocumiere
3 Flamboyant 2013 #4
3 Eden Prarie
3 Choctaw
3 Maggie's Crescent
3 Bird Egg #2
3 Owl's Head #2
3 African Premiere Dark Outcross
3 Large Flat Orange Paiute Tepary (Finalizing my selection on this one)
3 Frauenbohne Main
3 Red Eyed Ranger outcross
3 Pebblestone
3 Bird Egg 2 Relative
3 Smith River Super Speckled Red
3 Wondermere
3 Yellow Bird

BED 3

3 Corbett Not
3 SeedO's Bumblebee
3 Chickasaw Outcross #2
3 Minnesota 1940's
3 Purple Face
3 Purple Hull Top Pick Pink Eyed Cowpea
3 Chocolate 2013 #3
3 African Premiere Main
3 Dalmatian Outcross #2
3 Flamboyant 2013 #2
3 Money
3 Flamboyant 2013 #1

BED 4

3 Frauenbohne Horticultural Outcross
3 Cannelinni Coccineus Bush
3 Bei Soybean
3 Dalmatian Outcross #1
3 Great Lakes Special
3 Digit's Soldier Bush, Northwest Selected
3 Chocolate 2013 #2
3 Flamboyant 2012
3 Stevenson's Black Eye
3 Chickasaw Outcross #1

BED 5

2 African Premiere Beige Outcross
2 Flamboyant 2013 #4
2 Pale Face
2 African Premiere Outcross 2013
2 Flamboyant 2013 #2
2 Billingsgate
2 Bird Egg #2
2 Owl's Head #2
2 Blue River
2 Flamboyant 2013 Segregation
2 African Premiere Dark Outcross
2 Purple Trout
2 Owl's Head 2013 w/swirls
2 Dalmatian Outcross #1
2 Red Speckled African
2 White Coco African
2 Mpumalunga Boontjis African
2 Marico African
2 Red Rajma African
2 Bizana African
2 Imbali African
2 Feijao Preto Brasileito African
2 Nyimo Groundnut African
3 Evening Moon
3 Purple Trout
3 Falcon
3 Yellow Jacket Outcross
3 Shoshone
3 Koronis Three Islands
3 Blue River Outcross
3 Maria Zeller Bush
3 Nippersink Outcross
3 Brown Eyed Goose
3 Blue Aspen Outcross
3 Weiner Traub
3 Junin Outcross
3 White Robin
3 Sandpiper Outcross
3 Zuni Shalako
3 Junin

BED 6

2 Sandpiper Outcross
2 Lambada Pole
2 Buxton Buckshot
2 Snow Star
2 Volga German Siberian
2 Lynnfield
2 Ringwood
2 Powder Star
2 Chester
2 Long Tom
2 Witsa African
2 Hanna Hank
2 George's Bean
2 Junin Outcross 2013
2 Flamboyant 2013 #1
2 Chocolate 2013 #4
2 Dalmatian Outcross #2
2 Anney's African
2 Leslie Tenderpod
2 Weaver
2 Nova Star Main, from Russ' grow 2013
2 Bosnian Pole
2 Prarie Patch
2 Badda di Polizzi, Dark Eye Pole
2 Tennessee Wonder
2 Nickell
2 Black Turkey
2 Half White Sugar African
2 Black Supernova
2 Chocolate 2013 seg #3
2 Blue Aspen Outcross

BED 7

2 Neptune Lima
2 North Star Lima
2 Purple Eye Lima
2 Horn's Speckled Lima
2 Herboontjie Lima
2 Black Supernova
2 Grandma Rivera's Puerto Rico Lima
2 Madagascar Lima
2 Sunset Runner Coccineus
2 North Pole Lima
2 Ganymede Lima

BED 8

2 Blauschokker Peas
10 Purple Seeded Golden Pod Snow Peas
3 Red Rajma African
3 Mpumalunga Boontjis African
3 Red Speckled African
3 Anney's African
3 Half White Sugar African
3 Witsa African
3 Bizana African
3 Nyimo Groundnut African
3 Marico African
3 Imbali African
3 Purple Queen African
3 White Coco African
3 Feijao Preto Brasileito African

BED 9

2 Buxton Buckshot
2 Weaver
2 Powder Star
2 Prarie Patch
2 Chester
2 Badda di Polizzi Dark Eye Pole
2 Black Turkey
2 Tennessee Wonder
2 Snow Star
2 Volga German Siberian
2 George's Bean
2 Nickell, from Journey
2 Lynnfield
2 Ringwood
2 Nova Star Main from Russ' 2013 grow
2 Lambada
2 Long Tom
2 Bosnian Pole
2 Leslie Tenderpod
2 Hanna Hank
3 Pawnee Bush
3 Falcon Outcross
3 Palomino

BED 10, planted this morning

2 Brown Eyed Goose
2 North Pole Lima
2 Madagascar Lima
2 Sunset Runner Coccineus
2 Horn's Speckled Lima
1 Puerto Rico Christmas Lima, I think may be a different strain or accession than mine.
3 Flamboyant 2012
2 Evening Moon Outcross
2 Shoshone
3 Chickasaw Outcross #1
3 Red Eyed Ranger Outcross
3 Yellow Bird seg.
3 Wondermere Outcross
3 Falcon Outcross
3 Chocolate 2013 #2
2 Ganymede Lima
2 Purple Eye Lima
2 North Star Lima
2 Herboontjie Lima
2 Neptune Lima
2 Grandma Rivera's Puerto Rico Lima

Whew*
Took awhile to type that!

WOW!!!

 

[ChickenMomma91]

I wish i'd have found this in like January!! definitely want to do this next year

 

[the1honeycomb]

@Bluejay77 I put stakes up for some of my vine growing plants, the stakes are 6 plus feet tall!! my beans are at the top and looking for more room! how should I handle this? could I put string from stake to stake? they are close to the corn should I let them grow over to the corn? the corn is just a little taller than the stakes. everyone seems happy but want to make sure we get a good harvest and I don't mess things up!!