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

[897tgigvib]

Sure thing @ninnymary (just remind me if i forget). I also have some others I'd kinda like to send you that I think would grow best in your climate. I'm sending most of the Buxton Buckshot pole cutshort snap beans to @buckabucka but I'll send you a couple seeds of those too. They are really pretty and could look real nice in your front yard. The Buxtons really had a hard time in the hot heat we had here this summer, and are from Maine, and I'm pretty sure your summer by the bay, (Sounds like a Boz Scaggs tune!) would also be perfect for them.

I'll get into seed packing and mailing mode in the next few weeks or so.

@Chickie'sMomaInNH I'm sure you're right about the colors. Wimin have better color vision than minfolk.

 

[Chickie'sMomaInNH]

might also be the camera/pc and if there was any lighting involved when the pic was taken.

 

[Pulsegleaner]

If you Google Pawnee shell bean you will find all sorts of links to sellers of this bean. One website says the Mexico is believed to be the origin of Pawnee. I really gives me a laugh when people don't know something and just make it up.

Some time ago, one of the beans Ricter's had was one they called "New Mexico Cave Bean." Looked sort of like a Anasazi/Jacob's Cattle, except in brown (or sort of like your Pawnee, but a bit more elongated). I rather suspect it in fact was some sort of variant of that. The part I always had an issue with was that they gave it the same backstory they often claim for Anasazi (that the original seed was found sealed in a pot in a southwestern cave and was carbon dated to several thousand years old. Leaving aside the fact that the story itself is suspicious (as people have pointed out, bean seeds just don't stay viable that long) the fact that two such similar beans would have the exact same "miracle" story is unlikely. These kind of stories are all too common in the veggies (King Tut peas and Mummy peas, the einkorn retrieved from a Neolithic burial an so on) and ALL are dubios. There are seeds that can stay viable for millennia in the right conditions but our garden vegetables do not number among them (unless your garden includes a lotus pond)

 

[MontyJ]

I have been out of town a lot, working over in the eastern panhandle of the state. I ran into another avid gardener who works at the school I was working in. I shared seeds from the Winterfare and Tobacco Patch beans with her. In turn she gave me a beautiful string of jalapenos to dry. I am trying to get her to join TEG. She would fit right in; avid gardener, kind of heart, and fun loving.

 

[Smart Red]

Yeah! More friends! Here's hoping she takes the offer.

 

[journey11]

I'll get into seed packing and mailing mode in the next few weeks or so.

That's just about in time for Christmas. I'd think I must have been a good girl this year if Santa left me BEANS in my stocking. LOL

 

[flowerweaver]

Love that Fantasy Rose! If I were a bean, I'd wear that.

 

[897tgigvib]

Can't remember if Miss Red Speckled, African, had her turn on the runway yet.

 

[897tgigvib]

I foresee beans in @journey11 's Christmas stocking this year! And several other folks too!

 

[897tgigvib]

Pebblestone!

@Bluejay77 These are wonderfully productive. All 3 plants were very well behaved, healthy, and nice classic bush form.

These do seem like a 2nd or 3rd generation outcross.

Below is what is left in the packet I received from Russ. They have definitely cured more during the summer while in their packet, and went from their original grey sandstone color to shades of grey-brown.

Next are the ladies from plant number one. These girls take exactly after their beautiful mother.

Next are the girls who are wearing a deep purplish brick red set of matching gowns. As can be seen, they share their mother's aura of being a fine sandstone.

Last and not least of the Pebblestone girls are the girls with the texture of a fine clay of high enough quality to make a Ming Vase with. Note their sheer silk gowns of finest beige.