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

[Artorius]

@Blue-Jay,
runners have appeared on one of my Blue Jays. I'm wondering if I should remove this plant. Is Blue Jay a true bush bean?

 

[Decoy1]

A wonderful parade of colours, @Oxford . I love the unusually deep purple of Blue Adliswil. Worth growing for its flowers alone!

I photographed yesterday what I thought was an unusually dusky pink in Princess flowers.
It’s a little darker and deeper than it looks here.

 

[Oxford]

It is quite intense. Even in the leaves, you can see the purple-blue color.

 

[Artorius]

Hello @Oxford ! Great photos.

 

[P Suckling]

And a few bush bean flowers, just because they’re so lovely.

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And such lovely sharp photos too.

 

[P Suckling]

Not sure if these varieties being ahead is random, genetic or what, but in any case these are my tallest plants so far this year. Network bean Barry Island is crazy big compared to all the others at this point! Haha, never noticed the weeds growing in behind my green planter until I posted this ah-oops
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I clipped the top of the photo by accident, but my regrow of Lambada from last year's failed grow out is going SO much better this year. Probably the height is just after Barry Island.
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This is another vigorous one, which I clipped the top of the photo again by accident.
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A regrow of last years network bean Blaugraue, I'm finding it quite early this year to climb.
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These two bean plants are all that germinated of the seeds I planted of each. No pressure, right!?
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Another couple of rare ones that I'm quite excited about. The fellow I received these from is starting up a website to sell his seeds. He has so many rare ones it's wild, I can't wait until it opens! I really hope these do well!
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Super photos.

 

[P Suckling]

These three photos look good. At this point it doesn't look like they have Mosaic at all. Hople it stays that way.

I do also believe these are ok. Bean mosaic shows as narrowed leaves and darker green patches on these leaves. Google has photos. Yours are evenly coloured.

 

[ducks4you]

@Oxford, those are calendar worthy photos!!

 

[Million Bells]

I had 8 Taylor Dwarf Horticultural plants produce this year. Not bad given how old the seed was. One of the plants produced a lot of inverses. I half thought it was a different plant, until I found some regular ones in one of the pods. This is on a 7 inch plate.

Even in the high heat and humidity, I have pole beans producing. PA Dutch Cherry and Rattlesnake are the most advanced. Rattlesnake pictured below.

 

[Blue-Jay]

@Blue-Jay,
runners have appeared on one of my Blue Jays. I'm wondering if I should remove this plant. Is Blue Jay a true bush bean?

Yes I would remove it so the running habit doesn't get into your other true bush beans. Personally I like to keep my true bush types just as they are. I don't grow bush types near anything that climbs. I think I found one runner bean among my Blue Jay this year and I removed it.