2024 Little Easy Bean Network - Growing Heirloom Beans Of Today And Tomorrow

[Blue-Jay]

Do you know whether anyone else holds any Fat Man seeds, apart from (hopefully) the Dutch grower?

I discovered that Sustainable Mountain Agriculture holds and sells Fat Man. I ordered some and it should be here in the mail this coming Saturday

 

[flowerbug]

Peregion original sample from 2012 showing aging color. stored at room temperature in a plastic container (not air tight). some of them look like coffee beans.

Peregion blend grown in 2022. much brighter.

Appaloosa from a 2012 sample. These darker colors age better and it keeps the white background. Domino is probably one of this bean's children.

Painted Pony aged sample on the left from 2012 and then what was grown in 2023 on the right. i grow this bean most years and i think a lot of my half white beans are from this or Appaloosa.

 

[heirloomgal]

Congratulations. It must feel a bit like giving birth! I love the layout and presentation . I’m away from home and don’t have my laptop with me. But on my tablet both Safari and Chrome open the front page but can’t load the individual variety pages. I’m sure it will get sorted soon though, and you can look forward to the first orders flooding in.

Thanks Decoy1! Thank goodness giving birth never took this long!

 

[Decoy1]

@Decoy1
If nothing bad happens, I will have a pack of Fat Man seeds from Thresh Seed. I don't know exactly when, but I hope it will arrive by the end of April. I will send you some seeds if you don't get them first.

Thank you, Artorius, if you meant to me rather than to @Bluejay77. I can share them with @Triffid too. A trade would be good. I’ll pm you.

 

[jbrobin09]

I don't have any germination record for Fat Man anymore. As I packaged new seed for the freezer I deleted some of the old records. I think @Decoy1 grew the bean successfully this past summer. Correct me if I'm wrong. I don't have anymore Fat Man samples here. They were all given out to two growers overseas. One in the UK and one in the Netherlands. I'm still waiting for packages to come back. I think this is an example that it wouldn't be a bad idea that packages go into the mail by the 20 of November at the latest. This also might avoid a lot of the Christmas deluge. I think you will find your seed drier than you think it is by then. @heirloomgal wants to grow Fat Man this coming summer.

@Bluejay77 I have just ordered Fat Man Buff from Guy Dirix - is that the same as Fat Man? If so, I could grow them out and share this fall.

Assuming they make it through Customs… fingers crossed.

 

[Triffid]

@Bluejay77 I have just ordered Fat Man Buff from Guy Dirix - is that the same as Fat Man?

It's not, Fat Man is white-seeded, but it certainly looks like an intereting variant of the former! Another one for the Dirix list this spring methinks..

 

[Blue-Jay]

@Bluejay77 I have just ordered Fat Man Buff from Guy Dirix - is that the same as Fat Man? If so, I could grow them out and share this fall.

The Fat Man that I have is a pure white seeded bean.

 

[Blue-Jay]

The Fat Man seed arrived today. Monday @heirloomgal Network seeds will go into the mail.

 

[heirloomgal]

It's only mid January and I'm already chomping at the bit to grow some new beans! Only 109 more days to go.

 

[Zeedman]

It's only mid January and I'm already chomping at the bit to grow some new beans! Only 109 more days to go.

Must have been a bad hair day...