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Appaloosa bean

Goose bean, adapted to the short growing season of the PNW.

Another bean I got at the swap, Robe Mountain, a soup bean.

A local group had a seed swap, and I got several new beans, this one is called Bessie Bean, if I remember right a Bill Best bean unless it was one of the other beans. It looks a lot like Khabarovsk I grew last year, and also Sarconi 1 I grew for a network bean. Has anyone heard of it?

Hi Russ, I am on the way to the post office to mail out my beans today, such as they are. You only sent me 5 Starlite and only one grew, the bed that had been safe for 4 years was hit 4 times by deer. They bit off the top of the plant and it managed to make one pod with 5 seeds, at least they...

@flowerbug I am in the Pacific Northwest, so we have a somewhat maritime climate but can get some unusual cold from the east. First frost here could be Oct. 31, it has been Dec. 20 one year which injured some trees that were not able to harden off gradually. I will just have to hope MCP can...

@Decoy1, my network grow-out Sarcony 1 looks a lot like especially Mrs, Fortune's but I can't compare sizes. @flowerbug I am interested that you are growing Munachedda Pale and finding it slow, as that is another of my Network beans, also really slow for me, it started setting pods really late...

@Zeedman- I was impressed with your vole trapping, I need to do that but don't know how. What kind of trap and bait do you use, just the apricots? My problem with traps has been that I have caught birds instead, baited with peanut butter, which is heart-breaking. I tried one rat snap trap at...

Here are some of my beans from this year, top- Jembo Polish which is just getting dry; lower right- Network grow-out Sarconi 1 which has done well; lower left- prolific Bosnian pole. My earliest bean to dry down was Frank Barnett, a brown cutshort bean. I'm hoping for a long fall season so some...

Even though there is lots of other food to eat in my yard, including all the apples they could eat, I think some deer developed a taste for bean leaves and has decided to do whatever it can to eat more. Grrrr. I decided maybe my aging plastic trellis netting above my wire fence is too weak...

This is the best (earliest) of my 4 Network beans I am growing, Sarconi 1. I started them in pots and they were 3' high in the garden when my own collection of beans sown in the ground were still 6-9" tall. I got the first pod set off of them and now the first dried down pods. I like the...

Wow, I'm glad you managed to save Bosnian pole. I grew it the first time last year and thought it was an amazing bean, plus I love shelling them, the pattern on the seeds is so fascinating.

I'm growing a couple of new to me white seeded beans for the Network collection, Starlite and White-Seeded Kentucky Wonder. After reading this thread, I feel like they were poor choices. But maybe they are more tender. But this has been the worst year ever for deer, rabbit, and vole attacks...

I use lava rock in my planting trenches to deter voles digging into the area, they don't like the scratchy texture. I have also tried sprinkling cayenne pepper in the trench and on top of the soil and it seems to help some.

I think this must be why we don't have them out here in the Pacific NW since we have dry summers.

The Sarconi 1's I started in pots indoors have beaten all the direct-sowed pole beans and produced their first pods now.

I am sad to say that my 6 bush bean and 4 rice bean varieties I purchased from Azure Dandelion have completely failed to sprout even a single bean. I am done with ordering from them, I read their website and they don't offer replacements. I am planting my former saved bush beans to replace them-...

I wanted to be sure to get the network beans to germinate and grow well so I soaked them and planted them in pots under lights. They grew much faster than the beans I planted outdoors, they are in the planting tray and the beans behind them in the ground were started earlier but are much...

This is a new pole bean for me to grow this year, Minnie Shatterly. There are a few beans that seem to be reverses, but only on one side, strangely. Nancy

@Tricia77 Wow, that's quite a mix. I will have to put on a photo of the Poverina beans when I receive them from Sand Hill.