2019 Little Easy Bean Network - Come And Reawaken The Thrill Of Discovery

[Blue-Jay]

Last night was 40 degrees, brrrrrrrr. Beans that are up seemed ok this morning including the Limas. I am a little nervous with the colder weather and did notice that a couple seeds did rot between the time I planted them and when they came up. But I have enough up of all the network beans to replenish the supply. This year has been a challenging year for gardening. I did finish putting in the new rain garden so I'll have more time for vegetables now. YEAH!

I was thinking about you up there in Minnesota knowing how cool it's been here. I was wondering if you were going to hold off on planting. I still have not planted my two backyard bush bean plots. However I did plant 10 seeds of Robert Lobitz's "Lake Avenue Beauty" last week in my backyard flower bed up against the house. Yesterday I noticed they are coming up all 10 of them. Today my backyard bush bean plots get planted before it rains tomorrow.

 

[Blue-Jay]

@BeanQueen,

Last month I traded beans with a fellow from Czech Republic. 12 varieties. I'm growing one of them out this year and the other 11 next year. So stick around and you can get a hold of these when my seed crops mature and dry.

Do you ever take photos of the seed of your varieties?

 

[BeanQueen]

Dana's Mercury
Magpie bottom, Dana's Mercury left, Black Bear Right
Black Bear
Jara-beana
Cherno-bean

And Applefest is a little darker version than Dana's Mercury, but can't find a picture.

During the first half of the growing season, Magpie grew next to my mom's French Pole Beans so I suspect they might be a potential pollinator. All the Magpie shelled out normally. Some pods/seeds fell and self-seeded which is then what grew as pole types and in the fall, second half of the season I shelled them and found 5 different outcrosses.

 

[flowerbug]

today the last bean garden was planted for me for this season. i have two more to add to my above list - they are wax beans maybe. i need to come up with some working titles for them if they grow and grow true.

as they are growing outside the fence i won't keep track of the germination rates or how many i planted as i'll be happy if any of them survive.

 

[Blue-Jay]

@BeanQueen,

Pretty purple beans. Fun to look at your photos. Yes your Magpie with the scant amount of white on them and mostly black look like a cross. I got a Magpie cross in 2013 and it eventually broke out into 8 slightly different segregations. Amazing what beans can do.

 

[BeanQueen]

While they are not the wildest or weirdest outcross one can have, it is certainly exciting to have something one can name.

 

[ducks4you]

I wish I could tell you which beans I am growing. I know that some are Kentucky Wonder and some are Purple Queen, but I didn't save the packages. I am SUCH a bean newbie!! Still, I grew some last year and froze about 3 quarts. This year I have them planted in 3 beds so far, and I seeded heavily since 1/2 of my bean seeds were good for 2018.
I will take a picture of the ones that I stored in a cleaned out pickle quart jar and labeled, "2012." Maybe somebody on this thread could identify them and I could make the strips as I plant. So far, it looks like almost all the beans that I planted have sprouted, although some sat for a couple of weeks before breaking the ground. I also interspersed them with some lima beans, but those are pretty obvious.
They will ALL taste good...if I don't wear out during the harvest!!

 

[BeanQueen]

Maybe somebody on this thread could identify them and I could make the strips as I plant.

I worry this idea will result in mis-identification because you can have half a dozen different bean varieties from all around the world that look identical.

 

[ducks4you]

Look for the MOST COMMONLY bought in the Midwest, and those should be mine.

 

[Blue-Jay]

Got my backyard bean nursery planted today. 34 varieties. Still more planting I want to do on my offsite plots.

20 Varieties in this 22' 6" x 11'' plot in my backyard.

1.) Robert Lobitz's ''SPRING VALLEY PURPLE" 2.) Robert Lobitz's "NORTH TOWN PINTO" 3.) ''LILA STUART'' 4.) Robert Lobitz's "RED EAGLE" 5.) Robert Lobitz's "KORONIS YELLOW EYE" 6.) "SMITH RIVER SUPER SPECKLE 7.) Robert Lobitz's "BLACK HAWK" 8.) Robert Lobitz's "CYRUS GRAYS" 9.) Robert Lobitz's "DWARF SHIELD" 10.) Robert Lobitz's "BONANZA LITTLE PINTO" 11.) Robert Lobitz's "EARLY VERMILLION" 12.) Robert Lobitz's "HAWICK" 13.) "VEITCH WONDER" 14.) Russ Crow's "BIRD EGG BLUE" 15.) Russ Crow's "POSSUM TROT" 16.) Russ Crow's "RED EYED RANGER" 17.) Robert Lobitz's "97A-00B" 18.) Russ Crow's" ''STONEY CREEK" 19.) Russ Crow's ''PURPLE TROUT" 20.) Robert Lobitz's 'LONG PRAIRIE TROUT 3.1"

14 Varieties in this 14' 6" x 11" plot.

1.) "ROCKWELL" 2.) "RED EYED RANGER" off type 3.) "STONEY CREEK" off type 4.) Robert Lobitz's "SUXYeE" 5.) "WEINER TRIEB" 6.) Robert Lobitz's "LONG PRAIRIE TROUT 3" 7.) Robert Lobitz's "LONG PRAIRIE TROUT 2.2" 8.) Robert Lobitz's ''CANOE" 9.) Robert Lobitz's "12-97B" 10.) Robert Lobitz's "COLD CREEK SEGREGATION 1" 11.) "WB-PKT #30" 12.) Robert Lobitz's "LONG PRAIRIE 2.1" 13.) Robert Lobitz's "LONG PRAIRIE 2) 14.) WB-PKT #31"