Recent content by SusanneinHastings

Oh! I am back in the U.S. and I have the Frost beans ready to send to you too, tomorrow when the post office is open again. They liked Minnesota! Then I have a list I made looking at the network beans in the fall. A lot of the priority list look a lot further south than us, I am wary of long...

Russ, do you want me to send you back the 52 Andikove I got, or try for more next year? I have plenty of Frost beans to send back, although I think I would like them to dry out a bit more.

OMG now I really want the Rabbit Painted Hide Skirt beans in the photo. So pretty!

Has anyone had good production out of the Andikove? I have harvested the last and not a single pod produced more than three beans, and a lot were complete duds. Taking out the dozen or so iffy ones I have got 52 beans. :( We have not had a full frost here yet so I have not pulled down the...

So, normally I would be pulling out dead plants and starting to prep beds for spring this time of year. But we have temperatures in the high 70s and 80s forecast for the next week, and I am bringing 15 lb of tomatoes to the food shelf still every week. The gigantes beans love it and are still...

Could be Potawatomi Lima maybe, from Wisconsin.

Does anybody recognize these beans? from a photo in one of our exhibits about a Dakota (Sioux) community garden.

it looks like Kahnawake is the name of a First Nations territory in Quebec so perhaps that was someone’s source originally. I got it from Great Lakes Staple Seed under that name but several Canadian companies call it that as well.

I forgot, I did find the packet for the tasty yellow wax beans, they are not a no-ID, they are Top Notch Golden Wax, which the internet tells me is a Rogers 1957 introduction. The seed has soldier bean markings, which I dimly noticed when I planted them, usually. I end up with Cherokee Wax...

Oxford, thank you for all the bean shoulder information! I am making my list now. Also for pointing out the Bretzelbohne is actually Vicia not phaseolus. But now I have an excuse perhaps to order it for the “soldiers garden” at the site. Frost bean is drying surprisingly quickly! So I went...

I have a relative traveling to Germany soon so I looked up Kipferlbohne and found some promising shops in Germany using that term. I could order and she could carry it back here. I visited in January and looked eagerly for beans after reading about German regional heirloom beans online, but the...

I have to say this plant did not seem awfully productive. It averaged about three mature seeds per pod, admittedly it was in a pot. We are eating a very tasty yellow wax bean this year, one of the American Seed no-names from the 25 cent rack at Menards. I will have to save the seed.

So far not so much sign of beans drying down here except for the very first plant of Andikove that I put in a 5 gallon pot. 26 beans, I am almost halfway to my quota. :) As long as the plants in the bigger planter do as well, I will have accomplished my duty. Time for Frost to start showing...

I was trying to find some information on the “Black Mandan beans” that I got at a seed swap this spring and found two results from Canada for “Black Mandan Pole Bean”. Heritage Harvest says it is an Oscar Will variety from North Dakota which makes sense...

The gigantes Greek runner beans are starting make some pods. We have had so much rain in the last week that one of the poles started to lean over after the last storm, and I had to find some tent stakes and raid the old electric fence for guy wires. It was a pain to untangle, but it occurred to...