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@heirloomgal I started most of my pole beans in 8.5 oz styrofoam cups. When introducing all the pole beans to the sun little by little some of the plants couldn't take it and died. Those are the ones I had to direct seed. I also direct seeded my row of Louisiana for green snap beans and direct...

Also planted 12 varieties of semi runners and seeded a few pole beans. Lately I've been growing Sacre Bleu every year. People keep buying it from me. Giving Draper's Glen another try hoping that it's closer to being stable. Semi Runner Row 4. RIo Zape in front. Semi Runner Row 2...

All my offsites and backyard and around my house are all planted and up and growing. All the pole beans were a lot of work putting them in the sun every morning and bringing them back into the house. Glad they are all in the ground. Not all the pole beans made it alive. I had to direct seed a...

Heirloom Bean Addicts Anonymous

Wow ! Where did you get Brown Eyed Bobby. I got that bean from a Tennessee woman in 2018 at the seed swap in Livingston, Tennessee. I still have it in my freezer and still haven't grown it. This woman tells me it's a Bush Snap Bean. I don't know why she called it Brown Eyed Bobby because the...

The priority list are mostly ones that have never been grown. I don't have any descriptions written on them. I thought it would be nice to see how these beans might perform. The ones that have been grown recently I thought the amounts of them are still very thin and it wouldn't hurt to boost up...

The darn postal strike is back on. Well, that's it for mailing seeds for this season. There have been a few people ordering seeds all of a sudden anticipating the shut down. One lady is driving quite a ways to get here Saturday to do a pick up at my house instead. A bean person, because let's...

I purchased some 12 inch long Kabob bambo skewer sticks and I'm sticking them down into the cups and taping the stems to the sticks to support the leggy plants. Today was the third day indoors and tomorrow it looks to be partly cloudy and the beans will go outside in my backyard. I hope I can...

I was able to put these emerging seedlings in the sun Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Exposed them to at least 8 hours of sun on these days. Then suddenly it turns cold and rainy and I didn't want them outside. Some of them have become very leggy really fast. I hope the weather turns sunnier really...

Many beans could be several centuries old. They are probably the product of stablized crosses that have happened over time. Some beans could be newer. When people in the western hemisphere began deomesticating beans from wild beans. How many kinds could there have been. Certainly not as many...

Sunday the llth of May I set up my 192 styro cups with potting mix and seeds. I watered them the next morning and by that Firday the 16th of May they were starting to come up so I took all 11 racks outside for a day of sun. 8 hours of sun for 3 days. I brought them in by 6:00 pm (1800). The same...

Yes I have noticed that once my beans become about 30 days old the rabbits here don't show any interest in the beans anymore. Perhaps your Brassicas are a stronger lure for your rabbits and they rather have that than beans. Gives your beans time to grow out of that attractive stage.

Rabbit's Yikes is right ! I buy this vinyl lattice at Manards. Don't know if Manards is in Canada. Comes in 2 feet wide by 8 feet long sections. Expensive but once you bought it you will have it for countless seasons. I use it to make rabbit fences. If I didn't rabbits would really ruin my bean...

Yes go ahead and post the bean list from that cook book. I think it would be interesting to see if those beans are still around somwhere.

Welcome SusanneinHastings, So nice to see you made it over here. I think you will enjoy this group of bean growers. You will feel like you gained another family.