2022 Little Easy Bean Network - We Are Beans Without Borders

[meadow]

@Bluejay77, What have you observed with Swedish Brown's growth habit?

I was expecting a compact bush, but this is rather viney and about 2 feet tall.

 

[Blue-Jay]

@Bluejay77, What have you observed with Swedish Brown's growth habit?

I was expecting a compact bush, but this is rather viney and about 2 feet tall.

I have not grown Swedish Brown. I tend to plant Beka Brown all the time. When you say viney, are they growing runners that want to climb or are they growing lots of branches and tend to sprawl a bit widner than most bush beans and lay down a bit?

 

[Blue-Jay]

@heirloomgal,

Have you tried cooking any of the Bounty Hunter beans yet to see if they are stingless?

Love all the photos. You have a beautiful bean jungle !

 

[meadow]

I have not grown Swedish Brown. I tend to plant Beka Brown all the time. When you say viney, are they growing runners that want to climb or are they growing lots of branches and tend to sprawl a bit widner than most bush beans and lay down a bit?

To give you an idea of their stage of development, Swedish Brown has only recently begun to bloom. There is a long central 'leader' that reaches up and up, but no inclination to grab onto anything. If they weren't being contained by a wire cage* and netting, they would be sprawling on the ground.

Btw, they are noticeably taller today than they were yesterday.

*Each Network bean patch has a wire 'cage' around it as added insurance against plants flopping onto the ground once they're heavy with pods. Since Marfax was thriving under the netting, I went ahead and netted Swedish Brown and Dutch Bullet too.

 

[Blue-Jay]

To give you an idea of their stage of development, Swedish Brown has only recently begun to bloom.

It would be fun to see some photos of your bean grow outs.

 

[meadow]

It would be fun to see some photos of your bean grow outs.

I don't do photos. I guess that is kind of weird these days.

 

[heirloomgal]

@heirloomgal,

Have you tried cooking any of the Bounty Hunter beans yet to see if they are stingless?

Love all the photos. You have a beautiful bean jungle !

Thanks @Bluejay77 ! I owe the bean jungle to you and that Bean Collectors Window...irresistible bean temptations lurk there.....


Haven't tried them cooked yet, but delicious raw with no detectable string so far.

 

[heirloomgal]

'Karachaganak' pod set; @Bluejay77 if you want a cassette box with some of these too, let me know, looks like there will be a fair bit.

'Mascotte' beans, a container variety apparently. I'm testing it out, and while it won't produce buckets, it is alright. This is a small window box.

'Holstein' cowpeas. Despite an early delia platura attack they've bounced back surprisingly well. I hope they make beans, but I see nothing yet.

Gaia soybeans are setting pods, early it seems?

@Zeedman 's gorgeous marbled soybeans! (upfront) Jembo Polish, Uzice Speckled Wax and Garafal Oro are all doing great too!

Why I question growing runner beans.....

Schwarze Dalmatin in the bush bean bed. (Lol, spellchecker keeps inserting Schwarzenegger Dalmatin)

 

[Blue-Jay]

Karachaganak' pod set; @Bluejay77 if you want a cassette box with some of these too, let me know, looks like there will be a fair bit.

Yes you can do a cassette box with karachaganak. Are yours growing as a true bush or semi runner? I have some planted around pole bean poles and they look like they are starting to develop runners, but the plants don't look real heatlhy. They looked like this last year too. I think where I have my pole beans planted again this year it's seems they don't do well. My bush beans however did great on this soil. I think this years pole bean plot will be bush beans from now on and where the bush beans are planted is going to be pole beans every year.

 

[heirloomgal]

Yes you can do a cassette box with karachaganak. Are yours growing as a true bush or semi runner? I have some planted around pole bean poles and they look like they are starting to develop runners, but the plants don't look real heatlhy. They looked like this last year too. I think where I have my pole beans planted again this year it's seems they don't do well. My bush beans however did great on this soil. I think this years pole bean plot will be bush beans from now on and where the bush beans are planted is going to be pole beans every year.

They are definitely semi-runners, and quite tall at that. Beans that climb can be irregular I find; next to Karachaganak is Tamila, and Tamila has only ever grown for me as a very short pole or even semi-runner, but this year it's the tallest I've ever seen it. It and K. are around the same height, along with Ugandan Bantu. I'd still call them all semis if I list them in the seed exchange but will mention a talk, semi runnew, not a short one like Ice or Nez Perce

Which seeds do you plant first in a season, the poles or bush beans? What kind of timing gap is there between the planting of the pole seeds and bush seeds?