Recent content by ruralmamma

Beans because they're the only thing the @#$& varmits haven't bothered this year.

Same here! I harvested my first Arlington Red Cranberry pod last evening and was so elated!

A few pictures from last week: Ma Williams is a standout variety due to those vibrant pink 6-inch pods. Garden is approximately 30' from the driveway and the UPS guy was astonished to discover he was seeing bean pods and not a vining flower like he first assumed. Majority of these pods have...

I'm second-guessing the Coal Camp beans as I'm now suspecting they could possibly be the September Blue. I reserved a few of the original seeds as backup and pulled them out today and though similar, the Coal Camp just isn't that vibrant. To make matters worse, I looked the variety up from a...

I was holding off on ordering a book from Ireland due to the tariffs and now I've discovered that the seller has halted all deliveries to the US. Sad times indeed. Blue Tip and Otis/Ottis Stuart are pretty much finished. They were the first to produce and I've harvested a fair amount of seed...

The purple-podded George Washington Fall bean. Still a week or two from harvest.

I've been planning to make a harvesting apron for at least a year now but haven't gotten around to it. I did find one with pockets at a thrift store and wore it in the garden a few times basically to recognize all the design flaws. Hopefully it won't be like the design for the perfect purse...

I'm really lacking on getting photos of the network beans. Seems every time I go to the garden I never have my phone. Happy to say that with any luck, I should be able to harvest seed from every network variety. Rio Zape should be ready by the end of the month unless we get a surprise frost...

Yes please! No hurry to send the seed though as I'm sure we'll have other varieties to swap at the end of the season too. :D @flowerbug, I have the same variation in seed. Can still send you a picture of I ever locate a ruler. :oops:

While I've been harvesting a few varieties for seed, I foresee this week as the beginning of a harvest explosion! No more harvesting with a shirt tail full of one variety and a different variety in each hand. It's time to bring out the brown lunch sacks so I can harvest without making multiple...

I've grown Trionfo Violetto for probably five years now. It might be a day or two, but I'll take a picture of my seed.

My flat was getting full, so I shelled the Blue Tip beans from last week to make room for the new pods to dry. Seven seeds per pod and so many more to be harvested. I have officially given myself permission to sample this variety as it's still producing and looks like I'll have plenty of seed.

My Meerbarbe pods aren't purple. All pods seem to be green with a bit of reddish/purple blush. Will have to go back and observe those plants again as it's possible one of the other varieties has crept over and is climbing with it. I read somewhere that temperatures influence the seed color...

This is a much better picture of Wren's Egg but still doesn't completely capture the beauty of the pods. Just happened to notice a yellowing Railroad pod and after looking closer, I found a handful of dried pods waiting to be harvested. That makes the fourth Network variety I've harvested to...

Harvest season has officially started. Yesterday it was the yellow-podded Ukrainian Comrades which has yellow seed instead of black like I suspected. So I'm assuming the green pods contain the black seed but they won't be ready for harvest for at least two weeks. Blue tip and Ottis/Otis...