2022 Little Easy Bean Network - We Are Beans Without Borders

[heirloomgal]

@heirloomgal
I have not grown this bean yet. The seeds I sent you were original seeds from Remy. I was intrigued by your description of what Grandma Gina's fresh seeds looked like. I want to check if there will be a similar situation for me.
Besides, I only have a few seeds left from the original stock and I want to increase the quantity.

It's an excellent green bean, very meaty. I do really like romano thick podded beans. But saving the seeds was REALLY difficult! All that flesh tends to make the beans sprout prematurely in the pods even when the pods are still quite green and immature, and even more so with fall rains. But considering how special that bean is I think it's worth the effort of trying to keep it going.

 

[Zeedman]

It's an excellent green bean, very meaty. I do really like romano thick podded beans. But saving the seeds was REALLY difficult! All that flesh tends to make the beans sprout prematurely in the pods even when the pods are still quite green and immature, and even more so with fall rains. But considering how special that bean is I think it's worth the effort of trying to keep it going.

Having read both your comments & Remy's about how difficult it is to get dry seed from Grandma Gina's, I've assigned it to the best location I have - on the South side of my garage. That is the warmest garden, and it stays warmer in late Summer due to reflected heat. That heat might help the mature pods to dry more quickly, and the garage usually protects from the first frost.

 

[flowerbug]

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This is my reaction to what I saw today.

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moles i'm thinking. if they are not near gardens you can get by with leaving them alone and just raking the dirt out to spread it around. they do create habitat for voles, mice, snakes, chipmunks, frogs, toads.

in more formal gardens they sure can make a mess. i do have traps for them of a few kinds. at first i was using a choker loop type which is hard to set, but they do work, now we have the type that you can just step on it to set it that looks like this:

if you are into skinning and tanning hides they have amazingly soft fur.

 

[heirloomgal]

moles i'm thinking. if they are not near gardens you can get by with leaving them alone and just raking the dirt out to spread it around. they do create habitat for voles, mice, snakes, chipmunks, frogs, toads.

in more formal gardens they sure can make a mess. i do have traps for them of a few kinds. at first i was using a choker loop type which is hard to set, but they do work, now we have the type that you can just step on it to set it that looks like this:

if you are into skinning and tanning hides they have amazingly soft fur.

I wonder if this would work with voles?

 

[flowerbug]

I wonder if this would work with voles?

i think previously the mentioned method of using rat traps baited with apricots or other things they like would work much better. @Zeedman has more experience with this than i do since we have not had vole problems here very often or for very long. i suppose i should knock on wood though after saying something like that...

 

[heirloomgal]

I am trying to research a bunch of European beans at the moment and have come up with two helpful sites, Deaflora and Bohnen Atlas. Anybody know of others that might be good?

 

[jbosmith]

Oh look, another thread that I'm not getting notifications for anymore!

I love that folks are working on preserving Remy's varieties! I have dearly missed emailing with and ordering from her the last couple of years.

 

[Jack Holloway]

Oh look, another thread that I'm not getting notifications for anymore!

I love that folks are working on preserving Remy's varieties! I have dearly missed emailing with and ordering from her the last couple of years.

Ah, I'm still getting them. But there hasn't been much activity here lately, which is sad.
How does your garden grow? Mine's not quite underwater, but puddles everywhere, and we are forecast to have two weeks of rain!

 

[jbosmith]

Ah, I'm still getting them. But there hasn't been much activity here lately, which is sad.
How does your garden grow? Mine's not quite underwater, but puddles everywhere, and we are forecast to have two weeks of rain!

Mine are all under 6-8 inches of fresh snow at the moment but there's talk of a 55F day coming some time this week so there's hope yet! Our fly date for wheat is approaching and I have a spring variety that I want to get in so things need to warm up!

Edited to add: I hadn't had a notification in about 3 pages of messages. It feels like it only gives me notifications if I've said something recently.

 

[Jack Holloway]

Mine are all under 6-8 inches of fresh snow at the moment but there's talk of a 55F day coming some time this week so there's hope yet! Our fly date for wheat is approaching and I have a spring variety that I want to get in so things need to warm up!

Edited to add: I hadn't had a notification in about 3 pages of messages. It feels like it only gives me notifications if I've said something recently.

Ah, I understand. A different forum I read seems it will send out a notification, and if I don't go read that post, I won't get anymore notifications till I read it. Haven't quite figured out the logic behind it, but that seems to be what is going on there. Hasn't happened to me here yet, but I log in everyday and usual stay logged in.

Wheat huh? How many acres are you going to be planting in it?