2025 Little Easy Bean Network - Growers Of The Future Will Be Glad We Saved

Bush beans! So glad I decided to still do transplants with them, I was tempted to direct seed this year. Got all the poles in now too, just a few little adjustments to be made tomorrow (aka see where else I can jam in a few more poles and plants Both thrilled and relieved to have the garden FINALLY done. And if completion wasn't victorious enough, just as I was collecting all the starter pots from the rows and putting them away as the sun disappeared I heard the yip calls of a coyote pack - that MUST be a message.


Planted some 'Ocean View' seeds yesterday as well. I find this a very early variety to mature, so I think the timing will be alright. Curious if it will throw any offtypes as it did last year.

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 few of the poles. They looked somewhat rough when I planted them but they are coming along. Photos below.


May 11, 2025 - All seeded with potting mix.


May 19. 8 days later have been in and out of the sun for several days.


May 28. My growing family of pole beans.


June 1st. They are just days away from being planted in their permanent place.

June 6th. They were finally introduced to their summer home.

And we are in drought. No steady rainfall since the third week of July 2024. We have had two nice rains since the first day of April but they are spaced so far apart that they eventually lose their effect.

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. Karachaganak, Chickasaw, Stevenson's Blue Eye


A full row 8 poles of Louisiana. My green beans for the year.


Planted 4 poles of Iroquois Cornbread. Nearly sold all I had of this bean. What I have won't last through next winter.

I really thought the end of May would have been the end of the seed selling season but they kept coming at least one a day. This past week I still had an order every day. Two days ago a fellow from California wanted 21 packets of beans. This morning I droped off two orders at the post office.

I still have a few pole varieties to transplant but I'm happy to say I have 80% of the Network beans in the ground. Ditched my planting plans when I realized I didn't take seed color or type (example greasy) into consideration when I made them. Original plans had white-seeded varieties and greasy beans side by side and I quickly realized how hard it would be to differentiate between varieties if they were to intertwine. Since I got such a late start, I held back a few seeds of each variety just in case. Going back to my notes as we speak and adding a description of the seed for future reference.

Very nice @Bluejay! I was going to ask how your garden was going! Your transplants all look really beautiful. Did you seed all the beans you're growing this year in pots first?

Given your drought, it's a good thing you have so many transplants. I don't find bean seeds take very kindly to bad weather - either extreme wet or extreme heat, small plants do much better in weather challenges.

I'm growing Juanita Smith this year and I'm shocked at how delicate the plants are! Can anyone confirm if this is an exceptionally dainty pole bean, or a semi-runner?

the Purple Dove beans that sprouted early in the tomato patch are almost flowering. these are random beans that fell on the ground during harvesting and they sprouted when the weather got warm enough for them. only a few are large enough to flower, all the rest are about as big as the ones i planted the earliest.