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

[Blue-Jay]

Hi Journey !

Please don't toss any seed you might have gotten from the ones I sent you. If you got a color change it is very possible that your different soil and climate changed the color of the seed a bit. It has happened to me. Sometimes I have had the pattern get rearranged a bit. The Appaloosa has the same basic seed coat pattern as Jacob's Cattle. My Jacob's Cattle in a warm year will show little to absolutely no white on the seed at all. Just solid red. Put up some photos of your new seed and put name tags on the seed so we can see what they are. If you don't like the seed you harvested from the beans I sent. Send them all back to me and I'll grow them here again and show you what they do.
I'll bet you they are not ruined at all.

This is Jacob's Cattle from my original source

This is the seed I harvest in my soil and climate in a warm year from the same acquired seed


So you can see how soil and climate can change color and patterns or both on bean seed. Nothing is ruined. In a different year when the temperatures and rainfall changes sometimes I will get the most wonderful looking Jacob's Cattle seed crops.

 

[bj taylor]

just beautiful. i'm going to try beans again next year.

 

[journey11]

Well, that is encouraging! Thanks, Russ! I will post a pic here soon...today hopefully.

 

[MontyJ]

Winterhaven





Tobacco Patch



Seeds so far:



Winterhaven is well ahead of Tobacco Patch, but both are bearing well.

 

[bj taylor]

what few pods I got never filled out. it that a nutrition issue or what?

 

[Blue-Jay]

Monty !

Your beans are just gorgeous. Plants all look very nice too. I'm curious are you troubled with Japanese beetles where you live?

 

[Blue-Jay]

BJ it sounds like it might be a problem with heat. Are the pods still green or have they dried? If the pods are still green maybe the seed inside just hasn't developed yet.

 

[so lucky]

My Peta Luma Gold Rush Pole Beans are finally producing little green beans. I hope they have time to mature and dry before first frost. Purple Amazons are doing well and taste amazing. I think I have a new favorite fresh green (purple) bean.

 

[MontyJ]

Monty !

Your beans are just gorgeous. Plants all look very nice too. I'm curious are you troubled with Japanese beetles where you live?

Most years we do have Japanese Beetles. This year, I haven't seen a single one. About 5 or 6 years ago they were so thick I could barely keep anything alive, but over the course of time, the numbers seem to have diminished. I think the natural predator population may be catching up with them. The damage you see on the leaves if from the hail we had. The Winterfare took the brunt of it and partially shielded the Tobacco Patch. Once I have enough Tobacco Patch picked and dried, I'll be sending yours out; probably in a week or two.

 

[Blue-Jay]

Hi Monty !

Got the Winterfare, and Tobacco Patch seeds in the mail yesterday. They are just beautiful. You are a geniune bean man. You are so welcome to do this again next year. Hope you will be back in 2014. Hope you will continue to always enjoy those two varieties in the future. By the way it is my understanding that both of those beans you grew this sumer are used as dry beans.

Russ