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So I've had pretty good luck getting bean seed to sprout between two damp microfiber cloths, in one of those clear 2-lb spinach tubs, under a grow light. But holy bejeebers -- I put Mugungi, Gordo, and Harriet's Black Hook in a tub yesterday morning, and just came home to find 4 of 6 Gordo had...

Totally! :) Instead of those, let's do Harriet's Black Hook, Rwanda Rainbow, Small Speckled Bunch, and Giant Red Tarka.

Annette, I'm so glad you'll still be around this year even if you won't be growing network beans! It looks like Victory Seeds is now planning to re-offer Ralph's Italian for the 2020 season... so eventually they'll be back! I didn't remember seeing that note the last time I looked.

Aha, so that's why they weren't on the list! :) In place of those three, I'll do Harriet's Black Hook, Rwanda Rainbow, and Small Speckled Bunch.

Wahoo! 2018, here we come! ;) I'm stepping it up this year... can I grow these beans, please (some of them are not on the "most needed" list, but are still listed with questions marks for the last-grown year on the website?): Lekatt (Bush) Night Star (Bush) Schoko Flecken (Bush) Blue Heron...

Clicking through the site, everything seems to be showing up fine for me now (both the header and the other images). The title on the home page was a bit wonky for a minute, but maybe you fixed that while I was clicking through the other pages. :)

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. :)

Do you have a list of the beans you have available to swap? I can message you my list. You had a bunch of gorgeous varieties you were growing this year... and really, can someone ever have too many beans? :lol:

Annette, I was just looking at your pictures again... sewing down the collars of the bags is a great idea. What size of bag do you find works best?

Thanks for all the tips (and photos!)... that's what I was thinking for next year, too: a combination of other "more interesting" (to the bees, at least) flowers nearby, and bagging a few beans on each plant for safety's sake. And beyond that, I guess it's an experiment to see what our...

That video looks really interesting, thanks for sharing! I'll have to give it a watch soon. ...After Thanskgiving. ;) There's been a little bit of talk about it on this thread already, but I'm curious about how you guys all deal with isolating different varieties for seed-saving purposes. Do...

Do beans "de-segregate", for lack of a better term? All the beans (pods and seeds) I got from the Cleopatra growout look EXACTLY like this Illinois Wild Goose. Russ can compare in person when he gets the packet of beans, but I'd swear they're identical.

Ridgerunner, how cool that at least one variety seems to be stabilizing already! Russ, I'm packing up this year's seeds tonight to send to you... I'll toss in some Arikara Yellow and Roma II that I grew out this year. I planted maybe 20 bush plants of each, and still had enough beans to make a...

Is the Woodstock, IL address the one to send this year's seeds to?

Those Pixie outcrosses are gorgeous! Amazing that so many different beans can come from one ancestor. The majority of the beans I'm getting seem to be an even middle ground between Gopher and Cleopatra. I think there's just one plant that is actually "full Cleopatra", and I'm hoping it'll finish...

Wahoo, I got my first couple dried beans off the Cleopatra vines! They're nice because, even though the pod coloring makes it hard to tell by sight whether they're dry enough, they beans rattle in the pod when they're dry, so you can kinda harvest by feel. There are a number of beans with this...

I think they'd probably do better in a "normal" Oregon summer, honestly... it seemed like there was a LOT of blossom drop while we were gone (during the worst of the heat, luckily). I've only been in Oregon for two other growing seasons, though (and they've both been extremely dry; I'm from...

Well, better late than never, right? :D I read through all the previous bean network threads last winter, and enjoyed the heck out of them! I am a bean fiend but had never tried to grow beans for seed before, so I started out small (1 variety from the growout last year: Cleopatra). I was SUPER...