The Little Easy Bean Network - Get New Beans Varieties Nearly Free

[Ridgerunner]

Thanks, Marshall assured me the beans themselves wont carry the disease and I think there is a fair chance it is that maggot. Ill try to get these Jeminez to seed.

On a more general note, do you have any thoughts or suggestions of how we can be more assured we are sending you safe seeds? How do you suggest we harvest, dry, store, and ship the seeds to you?

My thoughts were to let them dry on the vine, hull them and let them dry some more in a dry well-ventilated place, maybe on screen and turning often, then package and ship in a zip-loc with padding to keep them from getting crushed. No sterilizing or anything like that. Properly labeled, of course.

 

[the1honeycomb]

I have flowers again!!! , :rose

 

[baymule]

I have flowers again!!! , :rose

:weight row :rainbow-sun

Ya just can't keep a good bean down!!

 

[the1honeycomb]

I have flowers again!!! , :rose

:weight row :rainbow-sun

Ya just can't keep a good bean down!!

Baymule your the best!!!row

 

[897tgigvib]

Yeeehaw! They pulled through!

 

[baymule]

I got dry beeeeeennnzzzzzz!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YAH-HOOEY!!! I got dry beans! I got 38 Kilham Goose and 11 Smith River Super Speckled. They are resting in white bowls on the kitchen counter. The vines have more beans on them and lots of blooms. I am growing them in big tubs and they are thriving. I can't wait for next year to do this again!!

 

[bj taylor]

gosh, I think my first bean growing try is a bust. the plants look good, but no flowering, much less beans. bay isn't that far south from me. I should be a lot farther along. well, I may not grow beans well yet - but I can sure grow the maters. i'll take comfort in that.
I should have gotten out there & watered tonight, but just tired. they will have to wait until morning.

 

[897tgigvib]

Hay Bay! You win the first dry Beans of the year award!!!

I'm not too far behind you though. Maybe 3 or 4 weeks for bone dry pods.

But my Early Pillsbury Purple Seeded Golden Podded Snow Peas bred true!!! That will be their preliminary generic variety name until a better name comes along. I picked the first dry pod from one, and it had 5 purple pea seeds in it!!! I tagged that plant as number 1. Each of the 10 plants will have its seeds saved separately. NEW VARIETY OF PEA! These are actually ripening dry pea seeds before the one Alaska pea with the largest pods I'm saving for seed.

Chickasaw is a full vigorous half runner, all of them

All your Beans have plants in stages of early flowering and small beans now Russ! Among your Beans, I think Vermont Appaloosa will be first, but it will be a good race to first dry pod.

Nova Star is turning out to be a highly vigorous and very tall pole. Even though I guess there is not supposed to be hybrid vigor in Beans, they sure are growing like the vigor of a hybrid tomato. Be ready for tall heavy vines from them. I may have to add another top run of twine for them. And yes Digit, they have reached the top netting and are growing through it. They even grew faster than the Dow Purple Pod, the White Seeded Kentucky Wonder, and the Meraviglia Di Venizia Wax Pole. They tied with Dow for first to flower among the pole beans.

Powder Star is vigorous too and heavy, but not as fast. The very late Star varieties have slowed their vining growth, but look very healthy still. Blue/Gold Star and the other Sierra Madre Copper Valley Star varieties...I truly believe they are day hour sensitive. They slowed as the solstice approached. Those varieties are grown during the winter down there. But they'll be alright! They got a good early start, still look real good, just making short internodes right now. My days will shorten soon enough with this forest clearing garden.

Oh! I've been getting good samples of Berries! nyum nyum Loganberries, my favorite! And sweet and subtle Fall Gold Raspberies! Slurpz! Those two I will sure try crossing next year! Boysenberries and Tayberries are also real good and super productive. Black Satin keeps on fooling me and I always pick them too soon. Guess they have to further ripen a couple weeks after turning black. No Marionberries this year. That plant was just a rooted cutting when I got it this spring. Laciniatus made a few flowers but not sure if they took yet. Pretty small little plant that I hastily dug from the side of a dirt road, but she's growing real nicely, just small. Cool thin red stems, and cool lacy looking leaves.

 

[Blue-Jay]

Hi Bay !

Wow that's such neat and exciting news on the beans. I'll be limping in nearly in last place in late August or early September with my first dry beans of the year. Sounds like the Kilham Goose did better for you there than they did here for me last summer. At one time I was wondering if my Kilham Goose was going to mature any beans at all. However I got them from a gal that grows them in Colorado at 6,700 ft elevation. I think it was the dry weather here last year that gave me trouble with growing things.

Speaking of dry weather. Our weather here is just the opposite of last year. I actually need some dry days right now. Maybe a weeks worth of them. I haven't cultivated and weeded my big bean patch yet not even for the first time. We got 9 inches of rain as of yesterday, and that all came since last Friday morning. That is about two months worth of rain for the climate here in just 5 days. I do declare I have never seen the grass so green at this time in June.

B.J. you shouldn't be too concerned yet. You are growing J. Carroll's West Vriginia and Old Time Fence. I know pole bean varieties take about a month longer, and maybe slightly more than a bush variety here for me. Are your beans climbing on something by now?

 

[so lucky]

The beans I am growing are doing pretty good. The purple pod bush bean (can't think of the name right now) have lots of beautiful magenta-purple pods on them, the largest about 4.5 inches long. The flowers are just as purple. The pole beans (Peta Luna?) are growing but not flowering yet. I have the packs down stairs, just didn't want to limp down there and look at the names right now.
Russ, we have been getting lots of rain here, south of you, too. More due later today and tomorrow. Guess it's making up for our drought last year?
Since I had not grown pole beans at the same time as bush beans, I had no idea how different they are in days to maturity, or days to flowering, even. I guess I can forgive the pathetic excuse for pole beans I grew last year now.