2025 Little Easy Bean Network - Growers Of The Future Will Be Glad We Saved

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Tried to get out there and take some photos today. Was a bit late in the day, but was able to snap a few.

Network bean, a bush type (tag spells the name, I could never remember to spell that!) , is at this point -
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There has been so much to do that I haven't been looking real close at the bean plants recently, so I was shocked when I lifted the plants and saw this today! It's Graziskai #1, a Polish bush bean. Wow, this is early for me & my season.
Love it! 💚
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One of the 2025 miracles. A single seed sprouted after a very long time, and it looked really terrible as a sprout. Seemed like it was missing parts as a small seedling. And it grew way slow too. I put it in a pot not sure if it was really worth the bother but boy am I ever glad I did because despite being VERY slow to get going (seed was from 2019) the plant has turned out really lovely. I'm quite thrilled with it.
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These 2 also are surprisingly (wonderfully) early, Robert Hazelwood and Big Mama pole bean.
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I got a surprise in my bean garden today. A bean that I got this past winter from a grower in Nanoose Bay, BC. It must be a bush that I thought might be a pole bean. So I started it early along with the pole beans and it produced some pods and blossomed long before any of the pole beans started blooming. I still am shocked that it produced dry seed this early.

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Margot - Bush Dry
 

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I got a surprise in my bean garden today. A bean that I got this past winter from a grower in Nanoose Bay, BC. It must be a bush that I thought might be a pole bean. So I started it early along with the pole beans and it produced some pods and blossomed long before any of the pole beans started blooming. I still am shocked that it produced dry seed this early.

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Margot - Bush Dry
Wow! Gorgeous seeds @Blue-Jay, that is a seriously early bean!
 
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