I was able to find the Tarahumara varieties on their website by going into an area where you can signup to get these rare varieties. It doesn’t look like they sell them anymore.
https://www.nativeseeds.org/collections/indigenous-varieties-bean-common
They do look similar. My seeds are probably 4 years old and they are much darker compared to when I bought them. I am going to try growing the Tarahumara Star this year.
After seeing heirloomgal’s post about Tarahumara Purple Star beans it reminded me that I have a bunch of Tarahumara varieties in my collection. Most were bought from Native Seeds Search. I still need to grow them, so I might try one this year. I don’t have Tarahumara Purple Star, but I do have...
Here are the rest of the varieties I grew for Russ.
Tajana’s Special bush bean
Mrs. Keeney’s Pink bush bean
Scarlet Beauty bush bean
Mr. Tung’s pole bean
Hi Bean Lovers! I hope everyone is well. These are the varieties I will be growing for Russ this year...
Hemelvaartboontje
Mr. Tung
O’Driscoll
Mrs. Keeny’s Pink
Rosa’s Bean
Scarlet Beauty
Tjana Special
I am also going to grow some of the varieties Annette grew in past years, like Emilia’s...
It has been very dry which is a good thing for my beans. Since last week my pole beans have all started drying. The leaves are yellowing and falling off.
I grew two varieties this year for the network, Seneca Strawberry and Indian Mound. Both are vigorous pole varieties that are loaded with large pods. Each pod has about 5-6 beans.
Seneca Strawberry
Indian Mound
Thanks Russ! You are partly to blame for a large portion of my collection lol! Right now I have small amounts of a lot of varieties. I need to really consider freezing my collection. My collection grew so fast which is wonderful, but at the same time it’s overwhelming. I currently store my...
My beans arrived today Russ! I will be growing many beans this year, but only two for the network. Indian Mound and Seneca Strawberry which are both Pole varieties.
Here is my grow list for 2019!
Runner Beans:
Ayocote
Aeron Purple Star
Lima:
Snow on the Mountain
North Pole
Florida Speckled...
I believe most of them are in my Flickr album. The list might become smaller as I plant. I had trouble choosing from my long list, so I may have over did it with my grow list ;)