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Oxford, thank you for all the bean shoulder information! I am making my list now. Also for pointing out the Bretzelbohne is actually Vicia not phaseolus. But now I have an excuse perhaps to order it for the “soldiers garden” at the site. Frost bean is drying surprisingly quickly! So I went...

I have a relative traveling to Germany soon so I looked up Kipferlbohne and found some promising shops in Germany using that term. I could order and she could carry it back here. I visited in January and looked eagerly for beans after reading about German regional heirloom beans online, but the...

I have to say this plant did not seem awfully productive. It averaged about three mature seeds per pod, admittedly it was in a pot. We are eating a very tasty yellow wax bean this year, one of the American Seed no-names from the 25 cent rack at Menards. I will have to save the seed.

So far not so much sign of beans drying down here except for the very first plant of Andikove that I put in a 5 gallon pot. 26 beans, I am almost halfway to my quota. :) As long as the plants in the bigger planter do as well, I will have accomplished my duty. Time for Frost to start showing...

I was trying to find some information on the “Black Mandan beans” that I got at a seed swap this spring and found two results from Canada for “Black Mandan Pole Bean”. Heritage Harvest says it is an Oscar Will variety from North Dakota which makes sense...

The gigantes Greek runner beans are starting make some pods. We have had so much rain in the last week that one of the poles started to lean over after the last storm, and I had to find some tent stakes and raid the old electric fence for guy wires. It was a pain to untangle, but it occurred to...

Dug all the garlic! Something on the trellis is making a few big pods, but I think it is the Tarbais and not the Greek gigantes yet. :( The hole is where I planted the True Red Cranberry. Paid for postage all the way from Canada and not a single one germinated! Not the ones I planted in the...

Can you tell me where you got the black snake bean? All I can find when I search is some kind of gourd, and Chinese yardlong beans. I love your birch log bean pole garden. Very chic!

Hello! I am sitting waiting for the latest storm to rumble over and wondering if there will be a dry day coming up to dig the garlic. It has been a “regular” rain summer after three years of drought and I had forgotten how nice and lush everything grows (including the weeds of course). Network...

How did it get to be the end of May already?? Well, the first batch of Frost and Andikove are up, but I have decided to put them each in a giant driveway pot as a reserve. Just in case the second wave in the ground gets eaten by rabbits or cutworms or whatever found its way inside one of the...

We are dry, dry, dry here. One of my colleagues at work put in his tomatoes this weekend but I am still being cautious. Also I haven’t had time to move the tomato trellis yet! :D I have only once managed to get the peas in at the right time, when I planted them in a giant pot on the driveway...

The beans arrived! The temperature reached 80 today and highs will be in the 70s all week. And just a few days ago I had to bring all my tomato seedlings in for a night in the 30s.

oh, you are right, I did not look closely enough. Well, more room on the trellises then. I assume the beans that were popular for planting by plow were bush beans, so that makes sense if they were becoming popularly farmed in the late 1700s. Amelia Simmons says: “The Clabboard Bean, is...

This is Hastings, Minnesota, USA on the Mississippi River, a little south of St Paul. Not named after the famous Hastings of 1066 but supposedly one of the many places named after Henry Hastings Sibley, who was the first state governor. I was poking around trying to find how to put my location...

hello! I have just joined up after reading through this and the 2024 bean thread. I will be growing out a couple of beans too. It is great to see some familiar names here and there from the Gardenweb and other forums back in the day. I think maybe Tomatoville too. Cheers, Susanne