2017 Little Easy Bean Network – Everything Beans, Post It Here & Join The Fun

saritabee

Deeply Rooted
Joined
May 29, 2017
Messages
74
Reaction score
161
Points
102
Location
Washington State
As some of you know one of my contacts found them and she's popping some in the mail on Monday. She found them yesterday in a local Polish deli, the very first one she tried maybe the force was with her or maybe the luck of the Irish ;), they buy them in bulk and repackage, it's the only dry bean they sell. When they arrive I'll do a germination test to see if they're viable. They say this is a big bean, Gigandes and Salmos Greek Lima (not a Lima) are the biggest white seeded runners I have, we'll see if this one compares in size.

Annette

Annette, I can't remember -- was Tricia able to get those Breck's Italian beans for you? If not, I just got some, and I can definitely send you a few. :)
 

journey11

Garden Master
Joined
Sep 1, 2009
Messages
8,469
Reaction score
4,218
Points
397
Location
WV, Zone 6B
Just finished my grow out list for this year. Saving room for a couple network beans, since it's almost time for the 2018 bean thread to come out. :) A couple of these are new to me...particularly looking forward to Rose, a Kentucky heirloom which has a pretty seed that is half white and airbrushed purplish-black . A few are outcrosses to explore and the rest are some I've planted before, but really needed to increase.

*Black Speckled Cutshort
*By God
*Sandpiper Outcross
*Shoshone Outcross Mix
*Snow Cap x poss. Top Crop
*Snow Star
Anasazi
Harvey's White Tendrais Navy
Molley's Zebra
Rio Zape
Witsa
*True Red Cranberry Outcross
Lazy Housewife (Australian)
*Black Neptune Outcross
Blue Jay
Contender
Giant Red Tarka
Rote Kepflerbohne
Blue and White of Bernardo
Brinker Carrier
Cottontail
Grady Bailly
Logan Giant
Muffet
Non-Tough Half Runner
Rose
Sam's Scarlet Runner
 

aftermidnight

Garden Addicted
Joined
Jun 5, 2014
Messages
2,182
Reaction score
4,016
Points
297
Location
Vancouver Island B.C. Canada
My bean list could chance but tentatively it's...

Nuna (beige seed, bush)
Cherokee Trail of Tears (white seeded pole)
Herrenbohali (pole)
Sarah's Old Fashioned Black (pole)
Emelia's Italian (pole)
Barksdale (wax pole)
Juanita Smith (pole)
Seneca Speckled Egg (pole, wasn't planning to but did a germination test on 2012 seed and they all germinated, couldn't toss them so they are in pots for now)
Ralph (pole)
Breck's Italian (pole)
Piekny Jas (pole runner if I get them in time, if not, Aeron Purple Star)
Condor/Buenos Aires Roja (pole, also a maybe)

Annette
 

flowerbug

Garden Master
Joined
Oct 15, 2017
Messages
15,885
Reaction score
23,784
Points
417
Location
mid-Michigan, USoA
Thanks @saritabee , Russ got them for me so I'm set, but thanks for the offer:).

Annette

after looking them up and reading their description they sound like some beans which a friend sent to me some years ago. i grew them that next season, but they were eaten by deer and i had to replant. i don't think i had much from those. i still have a few seeds around here somewhere. they are getting old enough i should refresh them (inside the fenced gardens this time :) ). he called them Jumbo, but they are not bush or half runner so it could be a generic name because they do get big pods.
 

aftermidnight

Garden Addicted
Joined
Jun 5, 2014
Messages
2,182
Reaction score
4,016
Points
297
Location
Vancouver Island B.C. Canada
after looking them up and reading their description they sound like some beans which a friend sent to me some years ago. i grew them that next season, but they were eaten by deer and i had to replant. i don't think i had much from those. i still have a few seeds around here somewhere. they are getting old enough i should refresh them (inside the fenced gardens this time :) ). he called them Jumbo, but they are not bush or half runner so it could be a generic name because they do get big pods.

I think there are a couple of beans around with the name Jumbo..."Jumbo"..."Jumbo Roma" bush types with runners, there's probably more.
I have a few "Jumbo" and another one called "Jembo Polish" (similar looking seed) in the freezer, just samples as I found these for someone else and being the bush types have not grown them myself.
"Breck's Italian" supposedly a pole bean, has similar looking pods and seeds, I'm growing a sample this year, we'll see. I want to compare it to the Italian pole bean I grew in the 60's but lost.
Ahhhh, the fascinating world of beans:).

Annette
 

Latest posts

Top