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

[heirloomgal]

I thought this was rather surprising, and they make little green pods you eat just like green beans. The seeds don't look very appetizing, but the plants look quite like P vulgaris.

Woolly Bean Breeders Mix

Strophostyles helvola Origin: Mid-Atlantic US Improvement status: Breeding population Seeds per packet: ~25 BOTANICAL SAMPLE - NOT GERMINATION TESTED Life cycle: Annual Woolly beans are the most commonly found wild native bean in eastern North America. They are often seen creeping along...

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[flowerbug]

Has anyone heard of, or grown, Wooly beans?

never heard of them before. so this is a great example of why i'm here. to learn something new...

 

[flowerbug]

wooly beans look like a relative of the field pea or adzuki or even a distant relative of the mung or soybean.

can they become invasive? i always wonder about that...

 

[flowerbug]

i'm certainly not getting as many beans shelled these past four days as i'd like to have done, but i'm getting there. patience is certainly a virtue... i am, however, not feeling all that saintly at the momento...

 

[Neen5MI]

i'm certainly not getting as many beans shelled these past four days as i'd like to have done, but i'm getting there. patience is certainly a virtue... i am, however, not feeling all that saintly at the momento...

I'm quite envious. I haven't had anything to shell in weeks. I used to have bags to last me through the winter. Since retirement, I keep up with stuff better and consequently have no beans to keep my hands occupied in front of the T.V.

 

[heirloomgal]

wooly beans look like a relative of the field pea or adzuki or even a distant relative of the mung or soybean.

can they become invasive? i always wonder about that...

I don't know. Given that they are native to at least parts of the US I'm guessing in there own habitat they don't fit the term invasive, but perhaps outside of the specific places they naturally grow they could be called that. One of the things that long trip canoe portaging created here was the spreading of insects etc. from one location to another as people travelled across the province in pursuit of lakes and rivers, and then, those insects did become a problem for the flora where they were brought to. Surprising, because this is within a single province.

 

[Zeedman]

I thought this was rather surprising, and they make little green pods you eat just like green beans. The seeds don't look very appetizing, but the plants look quite like P vulgaris.

Woolly Bean Breeders Mix

Strophostyles helvola Origin: Mid-Atlantic US Improvement status: Breeding population Seeds per packet: ~25 BOTANICAL SAMPLE - NOT GERMINATION TESTED Life cycle: Annual Woolly beans are the most commonly found wild native bean in eastern North America. They are often seen creeping along...

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In my youth, when visiting my Grandparent's land in mid-Wisconsin, I would hunt through the forest edge looking for wild beans. The seeds were similar to those, but I never noticed the foliage. I was only interested in collecting the seeds... hopefully I didn't inadvertently wipe them out.

 

[heirloomgal]

In my youth, when visiting my Grandparent's land in mid-Wisconsin, I would hunt through the forest edge looking for wild beans. The seeds were similar to those, but I never noticed the foliage. I was only interested in collecting the seeds... hopefully I didn't inadvertently wipe them out.

Are they tasty? Like common beans?

 

[Triffid]

I thought this was rather surprising, and they make little green pods you eat just like green beans. The seeds don't look very appetizing, but the plants look quite like P vulgaris.

Woolly Bean Breeders Mix

Strophostyles helvola Origin: Mid-Atlantic US Improvement status: Breeding population Seeds per packet: ~25 BOTANICAL SAMPLE - NOT GERMINATION TESTED Life cycle: Annual Woolly beans are the most commonly found wild native bean in eastern North America. They are often seen creeping along...

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A bit of a let-down, I was expecting gigantic furry things with a tusk or two.

 

[Zeedman]

Are they tasty? Like common beans?

Don't know, all I ever did was collect the dry seeds because they looked cool. Did the same with wild cucumber seeds, which were VERY interesting to this young man.