Anyone get a lot of beans that were wacked out of shape like my photo on the left. My largest bush dry bean plot produced a lot of beans that were oddly shaped.
Princes Rose - 2025.........................................................................Princes Rose 2018
Thank you Petra. All the shelling is done and I'm going for a visit to a friend's place in Florida for a month and half. Novenber to middle of Decmeber. Will be sorting the beans when I return and preparing them for storage in a freezer. It will probably take me until the middle of January to do...
Early this morning 10-24-2025 we had a killing frost. Growing season is now over. This was almost three weeks later than many of our October frosts I've seen in the past 10 years.
Now that you have a photo ot them together. I can see the margins of where the pink meets the white on Tunny is more irregular. I had to change my mind on this one. The pattern of Siebenbürgen-Kärnten is similar to Ukrainian Pole or Kroatische.
It can be difficult to pull them out if they have been driven in the ground to much over a foot deep. I had a fellow from Iowa help me put in a bunch of them this year and most of his were hard to get out. He used one of those post rams. It's like and empty cylinder with handles on the sides...
The End Of A Bean Season
The Vines are now all bare
The Supports Are Now Bare Without Vines.
The Supports Are All Coming Down
The Empty Pods Are Ready For Shredding
The Vines Are Ready For Shredding
The Vines Have Now Met The Lawnmower
The Pods...
Yes all done. I started shelling pods back in about middle of August and kept at it steadily when I wasn't doing something else. The whole harvest from 4,700 square feet 438 square meters gardening ground, I'll do my bean 2025 show in January,
Today I finished shelling the last pods I have harvested. I will photo all of this years grown beans and start packing them in a freezer when I return home from Florida about the 18th of December. Still lots of work to do.
We had frost on the rooftops of the houses around me this morning 41 degrees F 5 C, but nothing down near ground level. My snap beans on the south side of my house are still alive. Tilled my backyard bean nursery soil yesterday and the backyard flowerbed. Then I took the tiller over to my...
I have grown Ohio Pole here in our hot Midwest summers and never had any trouble with new seed sprouting in the pods. I wonder if some climates are not hot enough to dry out the pods and seed fast enough for the way the pods are constructed?
I think Gopher is not stable yet. Don't worry about sending any back this year. Grow them again next year. Gopher and Cleopatra came out of the Same packet. All the beans from Avalon page 10 to Yellow Point came to me in 52 packets of crosses from Will Bonsall of Industry Maine. Some of these...
Is it from Catalonia Spain? I acquired the bean from heirloomgal and her information was that it was from Germany.
Mongeta de la Neu is this the Spanish name for the bean?
Today I picked a pound .45 kilo of green beans. My south flowerbed this year contained 5 pole snap bean varieties. 13 poles with 4 beans planted around each pole. I picked all the seed that all the plants produced and then the plants started growing new leaves and went into bloom again. I've...
When I saw you post this bean on here last here I think it was last year. I just loved the light markings the bean has. It was so different. I had no idea that the bean was this productive. Yes we certainly have our own little bean triangle going. I grew the Kroatische bean I got from you also...
Nona Agnes, Grand-Mere and Grah Rovicak are just gorgeous and my three favorites of your post. Yes weather definitely makes growing great quality dry beans a big challenge.
Today I decided to take a photo of my Blue Spitball plants. Just to show what some of my bean plants had done this summer. I think these plants are about 3 inches tall and spread out a little on the ground. The last time I grew them they climbed a 6 foot 2 meter pole without any trouble. There...