What varieties of Beans are YOU growing?

[canesisters]

I've got some - you want a few?

 

[journey11]

My beans for this year (now that I know, thanks to you Marshall, that they will not cross and don't need isolation distance... ):


From assorted sources:

Hutterite
Scarlet Runners
Dark Red Kidney
Black Beans
French Climbing
Blue Lake (bush)
Snow Cap
Contender (bush)


Appalachian heirloom pole beans:

Hill Family Greasy
Nickell
Ora's Speckled (brown speckled greasy cut-short)


Beans from Russ:

Giant Red Tarka (bush)
Rio Zape (bush)
Top Crop (bush)
Appaloosa (bush)


I've got 23 varieties of heirloom tomatoes this year too.

 

[digitS']

Rattlesnake (Cascade Giant) pole
Jade bush
Jacob's Cattle
Soldier

Bei Soybean
BeSweet Soybean

Steve

 

[thistlebloom]

Stringless green pod
Ireland Creek Annie
Tigers Eye
Pepa De Zapallo
Blue Lake bush

.................hopefully. After I get my potatoes in I'll know how much room I have for everything else.

 

[897tgigvib]

I just counted. 62 varieties of Beans this year.

 

[thistlebloom]

Hey, I just discovered that Pepa de Zapallo is also called Tiger Eye :/ . So I'll pick one package and plant it and save the other for next year.

 

[897tgigvib]

Do the seeds look the same Thistle?

 

[grow_my_own]

I've changed my plans a couple of times. Blackeye peas/California cowpeas, and pinto beans, and white half-runners.

 

[thistlebloom]

Do the seeds look the same Thistle?

Oh, sorry, didn't see this the other day. They do look the same, same size, same patterning, but one package is a darker brown.

I bought them from Seed Savers and Heritage Harvest in 2011, but didn't have room for them that year, and had room but no time for more plantings last year. This year I'm gonna make it happen!

 

[897tgigvib]

I looked it up. Looks like they really are the same variety, but that some may have been selected differently for some years.

Eye of the Tiger is one of the quickest to mature dry that there is, especially being that they are relatively large beans. I grew them when I lived in Montana.

They tend to be determinate short runners. Some 2 foot stakes with twine running across them a foot high will keep the patch neat.