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  1. Michael Lusk

    2023 Little Easy Bean Network - Beans Beyond The Colors Of A Rainbow

    I'm FINALLY going to get my handful of Network beans in the mail today I hope. It was a strange year and of the four network beans I was growing, 1 was a total loss to rabbits and 1 was basically a failed crop (Croatian Monstrance) I took a picture, but it's not even enough to ship and I'm a...
  2. Michael Lusk

    2023 Little Easy Bean Network - Beans Beyond The Colors Of A Rainbow

    It's been a very weird year for my gardening efforts, but I can plainly say that only the network beans get the special "move into the garage" treatment!
  3. Michael Lusk

    2023 Little Easy Bean Network - Beans Beyond The Colors Of A Rainbow

    Seed of Scorpio is one very, very cool looking bean!
  4. Michael Lusk

    2023 Little Easy Bean Network - Beans Beyond The Colors Of A Rainbow

    I planted those on May 7. I have a ton of the seed so I wasn't too worried if the weather didn't cooperate. We've had really strange weather this season though...way more summer like than spring so things do seem to be farther along than normal this year.
  5. Michael Lusk

    2023 Little Easy Bean Network - Beans Beyond The Colors Of A Rainbow

    That’s it. If you’d like some just message me and I can send it your way.
  6. Michael Lusk

    2023 Little Easy Bean Network - Beans Beyond The Colors Of A Rainbow

    Total gardening geek post, found my first bean blossom of the season this morning. It's our go-to family bean that we've grown for years, it's a French climbing bean called Algarve which I purchased from Park Seed probably 15 years ago. It's definitely the little things that make me happy in...
  7. Michael Lusk

    2023 Little Easy Bean Network - Beans Beyond The Colors Of A Rainbow

    Lost a handful of pole beans to rabbits, but not my network beans thankfully. I'm in the middle of Indianapolis, but we have tons of rabbits largely because they don't have any predators (and my dog is no help). They don't seem to go for the raised beds, but today's project was to try and...
  8. Michael Lusk

    2023 Little Easy Bean Network - Beans Beyond The Colors Of A Rainbow

    @heirloomgal, I grew the Gabarone Sugar in 2018...it was a very slow growing pole bean for me. Oddly enough, I put some notes and pictures on the 2018 version of this thread - if you search Gabarone, you'll see the posts. It looks like mine could've used an extra month but I did get a decent...
  9. Michael Lusk

    2023 Little Easy Bean Network - Beans Beyond The Colors Of A Rainbow

    Thank you! I've got very limited space to work with and the raised beds are a really nice option. We're in an urban area and the soil isn't ideal so this setup works really well for a small salad garden and of course beans.
  10. Michael Lusk

    2023 Little Easy Bean Network - Beans Beyond The Colors Of A Rainbow

    OK, problem hopefully solved. But if these turn out to be legit pole beans I'm going to probably need to come up with some more...but I'll cross that bridge should I get to it. With the crazy weather we've had, it's like the beans exploded from the ground - these seeds were planted on 5/14 and...
  11. Michael Lusk

    2023 Little Easy Bean Network - Beans Beyond The Colors Of A Rainbow

    @Bluejay77 Looks like the Croatian Monstrance Bush may have some different ideas about their direction in life. I think part of my day may involve working in some supports.
  12. Michael Lusk

    2023 Little Easy Bean Network - Beans Beyond The Colors Of A Rainbow

    @heirloomgal and @Bluejay77, really curious to see this article you guys are referencing but ran into the Globe and Mail subscriber paywall. There really aren't a lot of seed articles these days (or ever?) so I'd be interested to see what they had to say - do either of you have a way to share...
  13. Michael Lusk

    2023 Little Easy Bean Network - Beans Beyond The Colors Of A Rainbow

    That makes sense not to mix them with other seed, and I would also be curious to see the bean lawn.
  14. Michael Lusk

    2023 Little Easy Bean Network - Beans Beyond The Colors Of A Rainbow

    OK, I'll give them a try, I like the pole limas! I had these growing in an area along a fence and didn't have much time as they didn't dry until basically winter. The vines and all were just left until I started getting the area ready to plant this weekend and I found the pods once I pulled...
  15. Michael Lusk

    2023 Little Easy Bean Network - Beans Beyond The Colors Of A Rainbow

    I was cleaning up some of last year's garden today and found a few seed pods which I missed. Several were in sad shape but a few looked airtight. These are the Presley pole limas from @Bluejay77 I grew last year. Are seeds that over-wintered in the garden any less viable than the ones I cared...
  16. Michael Lusk

    2021 Little Easy Bean Network - Bean Lovers Come Discover Something New !

    @Bluejay77 Just wanted to let you know I finally got the beans shipped off to you today, hopefully you'll have them by the first of next week. If you don't let me know and I'll try and track them down. Thanks again for all your work with this project, it means a lot!
  17. Michael Lusk

    2021 Little Easy Bean Network - Bean Lovers Come Discover Something New !

    I've been silent on the forum this year, but I've popped in from time to time to get some inspiration. I had limited space this year and only grew four network varieties. I'm happy to say that I'll be returning seed for all four this year and will be back at it in 2022. The pole limas both...
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