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  1. Blue-Jay

    2024 Little Easy Bean Network - Growing Heirloom Beans Of Today And Tomorrow

    No I did not input those lyrics. AI did all the words. I just wrote a short sentence or two what the song was to be about.
  2. Blue-Jay

    2024 Little Easy Bean Network - Growing Heirloom Beans Of Today And Tomorrow

    In this second song. I gave it some ideas about some of my original named beans and I thought it turned very nice. Below are the words and after that the link to the song. Field Of Beans [Verse] Fifty years under the sun Growing beans one by one Sending seeds to lands unknown In the soil...
  3. Blue-Jay

    2024 Little Easy Bean Network - Growing Heirloom Beans Of Today And Tomorrow

    Just for the heck of it I tried my hand of at creating an Artificial Intelligence songs of my life with beans. I created two AI songs the first one is below. After the lyrics is the link to the song. The second song one is in the post after. The Bean Legacy [Verse] Started small in a...
  4. Blue-Jay

    2024 Little Easy Bean Network - Growing Heirloom Beans Of Today And Tomorrow

    Red Calico - Pole Lima. Left Photo. This lima matures in over 100 days in season with other limas I have like Florida Specckled. I obtained this bean from a Seed Savers Exchange member from Tennessee in 2011 T.B Thweat. This family has grown this lima since 1790. This lima is said to have...
  5. Blue-Jay

    2024 Little Easy Bean Network - Growing Heirloom Beans Of Today And Tomorrow

    The little pots will be 8 oz. Styrofoam cups. I will use potting mix to fill the cups and plant one seed in each cup.
  6. Blue-Jay

    2024 Little Easy Bean Network - Growing Heirloom Beans Of Today And Tomorrow

    I got the last of the bean racks assembled this morning. I put together a few of them Monday and Tuesday. The last four of them this morning. Now I can move 198 bean seedlings in and out of the house during the period in early May when I want to get pole beans started early to plant later in...
  7. Blue-Jay

    2024 Little Easy Bean Network - Growing Heirloom Beans Of Today And Tomorrow

    Pisararecka Zlutoluske - Bush Snap Wax- Photo Left. Early in season. Hungaria variety. I been told it maybe the earliest for yellow snaps. Obtained this bean from a Pennsylvania grower in 2016. This years grower is from Seattle, Washington. Pride Pole - Pole Snap - Photo Right. The bean...
  8. Blue-Jay

    A Seed Saver's Garden

    Merry Christmas Everybody, Pretty Beans To You.
  9. Blue-Jay

    2024 Little Easy Bean Network - Growing Heirloom Beans Of Today And Tomorrow

    Pea Bean Turkey - Pole Dry. This bean might be the one that has been grown in England for over 400 years. That's maybe I don't know for sure. Obainted it from a grower in Catasaugua, Pennsylvania in 2017. This bean has many look-a-likes. This is the most grown of the Network beans. This years...
  10. Blue-Jay

    2024 Little Easy Bean Network - Growing Heirloom Beans Of Today And Tomorrow

    Old Joe Clark - Left Photo. Also known as Pink Half-Runner and Red Peanut Bean, Old Joe Clark is an heirloom bean that produces early crops of 3 to 4-inch pods that mature from green to a unique fuchsia color. Traditionally used as a snap bean with a unique, somewhat nutty flavor as well as a...
  11. Blue-Jay

    2024 Little Easy Bean Network - Growing Heirloom Beans Of Today And Tomorrow

    Monachine - Pole, Snap, Dry. Photo Left. Monachine beans can be eaten fresh or dried. Fresh, they are stringless and yellow-green. The bean is an heirloom from Italy that was brought to the U.S. Pacific Northwest by Angelo Pellegrini, an English professor and culinary expert at the University of...
  12. Blue-Jay

    2024 Little Easy Bean Network - Growing Heirloom Beans Of Today And Tomorrow

    Yes you should wait before sending your packages. We don't want things sitting so long that they get lost and forgotten about forever. The U.S. post office is not accepting packages or mail to go to Canada. I'm sure the backlog is known about here.
  13. Blue-Jay

    2024 Little Easy Bean Network - Growing Heirloom Beans Of Today And Tomorrow

    Menenga - Bush. Left Photo. Maybe a snap bean. This years grow out was the first since I acquired the bean in a 30 pound (13.6 Kilos) bag of beans that Joeph Simcox collected in many places. I believe this is an African variety from Kenya. This years grower is from DeSoto, Wisconsin. Milk And...
  14. Blue-Jay

    2024 Little Easy Bean Network - Growing Heirloom Beans Of Today And Tomorrow

    Louisiana - Pole Snap - Left Photo. I have grown this bean as far back as 1979. It's been one of my favorites since. I have gotten small amount of snap pods to pick as early as 62 days. The real harvest starts at about 75 days. Green round pods with purple streaks. I pick these up to about 7...
  15. Blue-Jay

    2024 Little Easy Bean Network - Growing Heirloom Beans Of Today And Tomorrow

    Blue Spitball - Pole Dry - I was at the 2019 Appalachian Seed in Pikeville, Kentucky. After the swap all of us vendors met in the hotel lobby that we were staying at to socialize. Joseph Simcox was there that year and he brought a bag of beans that a lot of people were picking seed out of. I...
  16. Blue-Jay

    A Seed Saver's Garden

    It was a pumpkin crossed with an acron squash.
  17. Blue-Jay

    2024 Little Easy Bean Network - Growing Heirloom Beans Of Today And Tomorrow

    Cliff Dweller - Pole Lima. Left Photo. The name would suggest that the bean may have been grown by the Cliff Dwelling people of the southwest U.S. Otherwise I can not find any history of this bean. Sent to me in 2019 by a man who had a lima collection while he lived in Iowa. This years grower is...
  18. Blue-Jay

    2024 Little Easy Bean Network - Growing Heirloom Beans Of Today And Tomorrow

    Karachaganak - Semi Runner Dry. Left photo. This bean was stablized and named by Jerry Maddox who now lives in Louisiana. It was one of 7 segregations from one of the 52 packets of outcrossed beans that I got from Will Bonsall in 2015. I sent out about half the outcrossed packets to other people...
  19. Blue-Jay

    2024 Little Easy Bean Network - Growing Heirloom Beans Of Today And Tomorrow

    I got information about J. Carroll's West Virginia lima bean on Facebook that I posted in post #1079. I believe I have pieced together the modern history of this bean. A fellow on our seed swap circut John Woodworth his neighbor since 1993 was Jimmy O'dell Carroll in Gate City, Virginia. Jim...
  20. Blue-Jay

    2024 Little Easy Bean Network - Growing Heirloom Beans Of Today And Tomorrow

    Jesse Fiske - Bush Dry. Left Photo. Pre-1740’s variety. The bean was brought originally by a Jesse Fisk who emigrated from England in the 1740’s to Charleston, New Hampshire. I acquired this bean from a grower in Blyth, Ontario. This years grower is from Seattle, Washington. Joyce Fetterly's...
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