2025 Little Easy Bean Network - Growers Of The Future Will Be Glad We Saved

[heirloomgal]

High Mowing Seeds?

today i made a 3 gallon pot full of beans and they are delicious.

Actually I had it right afterall. Very nice seed place too.

 

[Blue-Jay]

Hello @Blue-Jay
in case you are not done yet with the planning of the network beans grow-outs, I would like to participate again also this season. I wrote you a p.m. here at this forum in a separate thread last week. Please do let me know, if you can't find it (you probably get looots of mails).

Hi BeanieQueen,

I mailed you a package on January 23. Botosani Cylops, Holstein, Southwest Gold, Southwest Red, Sunrise, Tanzanian Grey, And Winterfare. Is that the package you wanting to recieve.

 

[BeanieQueen]

Hi BeanieQueen,

I mailed you a package on January 23. Botosani Cylops, Holstein, Southwest Gold, Southwest Red, Sunrise, Tanzanian Grey, And Winterfare. Is that the package you wanting to recieve.

Yesss, this sounds good! Great! You are the best. I am looking very much forward to it.
And there were 2 or 3 others, which I would like to purchase from your shop; I wrote that underneath the network list. But I will also look forward to those some other time (next season or so). For the moment I have enough beans to play with

 

[heirloomgal]

Got some more new beans today from a trade!!! 'Babushka' 'Domaci Cucak' 'Friese Brune Woudboon' 'Verdolino' 'Mombacher Speck' 'Mechelse Tros' 'Rebhuhnauge' & 'A Corentto Largo Verde'. Ooooh, I'm barely able to wait until spring right now with the cool line up from this years trades!!!




As soon as I can breathe a sigh of relief @Blue-Jay about the network box getting to you, I will send a little list for network beans for this year. I wanted to be sure everything from last year got there first. I have a few that I need to regrow for you from last years network list, but it isn't a big number. But I'll adjust the 2025 list to account for the few I still need to grow. I'm excited to finalize that list too!!! It's SO MUCH FUN picking new beans to grow!!!

 

[BeanieQueen]

Got some more new beans today from a trade!!! 'Babushka' 'Domaci Cucak' 'Friese Brune Woudboon' 'Verdolino' 'Mombacher Speck' 'Mechelse Tros' 'Rebhuhnauge' & 'A Corentto Largo Verde'.

This sounds quite a lot like Deaflora
If you need help with any German translation - here am I ! Although.. Google translator has significantly improved the last years. Meanwhile I use it more often than leo.org or Linguee. Which one do you use mostly?

 

[Blue-Jay]

@BeanieQueen,

Have you ever heard of a German bush green bean called Karnick or Kenrick. Supposed to be pre 1800.

 

[BeanieQueen]

Have you ever heard of a German bush green bean called Karnick or Kenrick. Supposed to be pre 1800.

No, I am sorry. Do you have a handwritten note about it or is the name only hearsay?

 

[heirloomgal]

This sounds quite a lot like Deaflora
If you need help with any German translation - here am I ! Although.. Google translator has significantly improved the last years. Meanwhile I use it more often than leo.org or Linguee. Which one do you use mostly?

Yes, that is where they're from! Thank you for the translation help! I have mostly relied on google translate, with varying degrees of success. Does Mechelse Tros really mean 'a bunch of Malinois'? That seems odd, but it would be sort of neat too, I like Malinois!

 

[Blue-Jay]

o, I am sorry. Do you have a handwritten note about it or is the name only hearsay?

Someone sent me a photo of an empty seed packet with the name on it. It is supposed to be a bush green bean.

 

[Triffid]

Does Mechelse Tros really mean 'a bunch of Malinois'? That seems odd, but it would be sort of neat too, I like Malinois!

In the literal sense, it translates to 'clusters' or 'bunches' from Mechelen, aka Malines, in Antwerp. The French name for the variety is Grappes de Malines.
Contextually it's likely referring to the bunches of pods that form, grappe being the collective term for a bunch of fruit or flowers - it does appear that the racemes consistently set more pods than the average bean. You could ask Guy Dirix; Meise is near Mechelen so he might know the variety's history