Haven't posted much here, but this thread is probably my "most lurked"
All the cleaning & sorting is done, and my humidity finally dropped to the point where the beans can be put into storage. Not that many varieties, I'm a piker compared to some in that regard... but what I do grow, I try to grow in quantity.
Common beans:
- Atlas (bush snap) - 13 ounces
- Bird Egg #3 (pole snap/shelly) - 7#
- Cranberry, True Red (pole dry) - 2#
- Clem & Sarah's Big Bean (bush dry) - 1# 5 ounces
- Dolloff (pole dry) - 4# (this had the only cross all season, a striped variant)
- King Horticultural (pole shelly/dry) - 8#
- Maradan Hill (pole wax) - 3# 8 ounces
- Tarbais (pole dry) - 5# 4 ounces
- Uzice (bush shelly/dry) - 18 ounces
- Uzice Speckled Wax (pole wax) - 2#
- Woods Mountain Crazy Bean (bush snap) - 1# 6 ounces
Limas:
- Berrier's #2 (pole, red-seeded) - 10# 9 ounces
- Sieva (pole, white-seeded) - 3# 4 ounces (was planted a month late, only got dry seed due to a very late frost... buckets of baby limas though)
Runners:
- Sunset (pink flowers / purple seeds) - 1# 11 ounces
- Tarahumara Tekomari (red flowers / gray seeds) - 10 ounces (also planted late & matured only due to late frost, this was a large-seeded, all-gray segregation from the original multi-colored land race, and appears likely to be stable)
In total, just over 61# of dry beans, and A LOT of frozen shellies. My main snap planting, though (Fortex) was a complete failure, having been drowned out.
Except for Bird Egg #3 (which was 50' of row direct seeded) and King Horticultural (32 plants), all common beans started out as 16 transplants. Tarbais was the only trial; late DTM, but I was highly impressed by the yield, and the seed quality was nearly flawless.
There were also 10 different soybeans, totaling 11# 11 ounces of dry seed... which is about 1/3 of a normal year. Peas & cowpeas were a nearly total failure, only one of each succeeded, where there would normally have been 5-7 of each. With one exception, cowpeas & yardlongs acted oddly this year; one produced only empty pods, and two produced seed smaller & duller in color than normal. The cool summer was probably to blame; we never hit 90, and the only cowpea to do well (Washday Pea) was the beneficiary of reflected heat, on the south side of my garage.
I wish I could post photos, still haven't adjusted to the loss of Photobucket.
