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  1. Blue-Jay

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

    This has been one of my favorites since I first acquired and grew Cresnjevec. Very productive. A beautiful color and produces excellent quality beans. A real gem. Love the photos that should make a bean lover just droll with excitment.
  2. Blue-Jay

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

    I have planted a tomato plant in front of my house. I plant pole beans in my south flower bed. I have a neighbor who was born and raised in Stuttgart. She tells me that is very European. Nothing wrong with it. Europeans don't waste space when growing their garden plants. They'll plant veggies...
  3. Blue-Jay

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

    What can you imagine that this bean guy is doing this weekend and for probably a number of days ahead? Well packing tomato seeds in 2 x 3 inch ziplocs. A guy I know named Jim in Stanwood, Iowa got tomato seed from @heirloomgal. He grew them this summer. Fermented, cleaned and dried them. He...
  4. Blue-Jay

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

    Tonight will likely be our first frost as we have a freeze warning for tonight and Wednesday overnight into Thursday morning. The 2024 bean season will be over here in northern Illinois.
  5. Blue-Jay

    A Seed Saver's Garden

    I did have just a little garden fun this summer. l got to watch volunteer pumpkin, volunteer acorn squash, and volunteer tomato plants grow in one of my small back yard plots. The fellow who owns the property where I have an offsite bean plot grew pumpkins and acorn squashes last year and he...
  6. Blue-Jay

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

    @heirloomgal This is exactly what she wrote. Looking for something really interesting pod wise; no stripes; but an interesting colour – a snap is best and a pole or bush bean will be fine.
  7. Blue-Jay

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

    @heirloomgal What different colored pods have you found in all the beans you have grown. Pods just with solid color and no stripes or streaking. A farm woman in Blyth that I think both you and I know wants pods with different colors other than green and without the purple and red streaks. I...
  8. Blue-Jay

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

    The little piece of thread you get attached to the eye (bellybutton) of the bean is what I call the umbilical vein. That is the vein that runs down the center of the pod where all the seeds are attached at the eye where the plant is growing, feeding and creating the seeds. The pod is like the...
  9. Blue-Jay

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

    Does anyone know anything about the following beans or where they can be acquired. Tres hatif de Massey Paimpolaise de Gayader Fin de Villeneuve Sapitos
  10. Blue-Jay

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

    @heirloomgal, I'm most likely the person who has spread Mona Lisa around since I acquired it in 2013. In the bean groups I belong too I had never seen anyone talk about or post photos of Mona Lisa around 2013. There is a woman in Liebenfels, Austria by name of Harriet Mella who ran across my...
  11. Blue-Jay

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

    Where did you acquire the bean Mona Lisa?
  12. Blue-Jay

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

    Neat looking bean. Wow large seeded and love the shape. The color reminds me of the snap pole bean I have called Weaver. So Santa Maria Pinquito is the smallest bean you have ever seen. Next time you get beans from me there is one I'm going to give you that has a really, really small seed. I...
  13. Blue-Jay

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

    Yes freezing will keep Lemon Slice from darkening. I have had some beans in my freezer since 2012 and they still look new and bright.
  14. Blue-Jay

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

    I wonder if you crossed it with a white true bush bean. The white seed coat is recessive and maybe the Lemon Slice seed coat would be dominant. With enough segregations a bush type should show up hopefully with the lemon slice seed coat.
  15. Blue-Jay

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

    Summer Bean Show 2024 Vol. #29 The Esta core e demais coloring reminds me a little of my Pink Emperor bean. Frijol Habita is very pretty. It is a Phaseolus Dumosus species. The Maine Yellow Eye are beautiful specimens grown in the Ukraine. Pink Blackberry was also grown in the Ukraine. Last but...
  16. Blue-Jay

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

    I'm sure this white stripe is genetically controlled. Everything about a bean including seeds, flower color, growth, maturity time are all controlled by genes. These characteristics can be influenced by the enviornment.
  17. Blue-Jay

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

    Remember when I posted this dark charcoal looking bean with the white stripe. I found out about it today. It is a hybrid or cross that someone discovered of another bean called Trace Rojo the second red bean. Hyrid Cross of Trace Rojo...............................Trace Rojo
  18. Blue-Jay

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

    For bean drying weather here. I see the forcast for us is in the 70's all the way through October 5th. With no rain. Then 80 degrees on the 6th.
  19. Blue-Jay

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

    Summer Bean Show 2024 Vol. #28 I like bean wheel #114. Somebody had the patience to do that with seeds and pods. They even have the names of the beans printed on strips of paper. The Brazilian Purple Moor is pretty. It was interesting that someone grew probably in Europe Koronis Purple and like...
  20. Blue-Jay

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

    That is very neat. You got all your bean drying in one small space. You use more vertical space instead of horizonal space.
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