2026 Little Easy Bean Network – Plant A Garden, Water Your Soul, Join Our Family

[Blue-Jay]

I've always wondered. There's a company that sells Italian seeds, I've seen them all the years I've been gardening, quite common on the racks in spring. Many of them have 'marconi' in the name somewhere.

I noticed that you're offering one of these beans too @Blue-Jay. Oh Yes Super Marconi !

Oh, and the bush bean in your collection @Blue-Jay called 'Vodenjak 1' has a really neat translation in English, it means 'water spirit' or 'water man'. Love that name! That's really a cool name. I like the translation.

 

[Artorius]

And three more network beans.

Amber Queen - Robert Lobitz bush bean.




Purple Rain - another Robert Lobitz, very tall bush bean. As @flowerbug wrote earlier, the seeds are smaller than Chaska Purple, but their quantity is much greater.




Gvnagei - Cherokee pole bean. One of two native beans from Kris Hubbard's collection that I have. I'm stubbornly hunting for more. I have many more of his tomatoes.

 

[heirloomgal]

I didn't realize that there were any bean seeds that look just like the Cave Bean in a bush habit, but the packet of UC Southwest Red is a bush. I only opened them tonight, that was surprising.

 

[Blue-Jay]

I didn't realize that there were any bean seeds that look just like the Cave Bean in a bush habit, but the packet of UC Southwest Red is a bush. I only opened them tonight, that was surprising.

They are calling them a bush ! It was my understanding that this bean is a semi runner. @flowerbug grew it for me this past summer we should ask him about it's growth .

 

[Blue-Jay]

Russ's 2025 Big Bean Show Day 12​

Buxton Buckshot - Pole Dry. This bean is so similar to Seneca Bird Egg. Same seed, same looking pods, same plants, but maybe a week or two earlier in maturity. A bean from Buxton, Maine. I wonder often if it is a native American bean. This bean gets steady requests from me. Has to be grown fairly frequently but not every single season. 8 plants produced just a little over a pound of beans (490 G).

Cassie's Purple Pod - Pole Snap. I have grown this bean as far back as 1980 as a member of Seed Savers Exhange. It's nicely productive of stringless purple pods. 7 plants produced about a pound of dry beans
(453 G).


Buxton Buckshot - Pole Dry..................................Cassie's Purple Pod - Pole Snap

 

[heirloomgal]

They are calling them a bush ! It was my understanding that this bean is a semi runner. @flowerbug grew it for me this past summer we should ask him about it's growth .

That's what I thought, one site says they're much like Jacob's Cattle. This is a picture of a field of them, so you may be right @Blue-Jay, these down look like 100% true bushes? What do you think?