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The delicate 'Marie-Louise' bean. I love the name, and I love the color of the pods, reminds me a little of peaches.
Portuguese bean 'Bragançano', sizing up to be a very nice variety! It's in a spot that gets some afternoon shade, which I think is slowing it a little. But the pods go from green and pink speckled, to green and purple which I sort of like. It looks like there's two colors of beans growing on the vines.
I've been wanting to grow the 'Mombacher Speck' bean for a couple years now, I failed the first time I tried. I have some curse that hovers above me when it comes to white seeded beans!
But this year I have triumphed over the WBC (white bean curse) and got it to grow!!! 'Mechelse Tros' is the other one that's bedeviled me, but I might get to harvest seed this year by the looks of the plants. This photo is of Mombacher. I grew 'Quedlinburger Speck' and loved it so I wanted to try this one too.
'Domatsu' is looking nice.
'Bobis D'Albenga'. Interestingly this bean seems to have two forms, a bush and a pole version. The Italian seed shops seem to offer more the pole type, which is where I got this one.
Lots of the Appalachian type beans are drying down, which is great. I always worry a little about those being Southern, but again, they seem quite early all of them. The 'Hopi Purple' semi runner though, still hasn't even flowered. I'm losing hope for it at this point, it was sent to me as a gift by a SSE fellow who likely has a longer season that me (I'm guessing). The temperatures dropped quite a bit recently, low of 7C/45F at night and about 20C/68 F and less during the day this upcoming week. I suspect it will pick back up again for a little while but that is still pretty chilly.
Portuguese bean 'Bragançano', sizing up to be a very nice variety! It's in a spot that gets some afternoon shade, which I think is slowing it a little. But the pods go from green and pink speckled, to green and purple which I sort of like. It looks like there's two colors of beans growing on the vines.
I've been wanting to grow the 'Mombacher Speck' bean for a couple years now, I failed the first time I tried. I have some curse that hovers above me when it comes to white seeded beans!
But this year I have triumphed over the WBC (white bean curse) and got it to grow!!! 'Mechelse Tros' is the other one that's bedeviled me, but I might get to harvest seed this year by the looks of the plants. This photo is of Mombacher. I grew 'Quedlinburger Speck' and loved it so I wanted to try this one too.'Domatsu' is looking nice.
'Bobis D'Albenga'. Interestingly this bean seems to have two forms, a bush and a pole version. The Italian seed shops seem to offer more the pole type, which is where I got this one.
Lots of the Appalachian type beans are drying down, which is great. I always worry a little about those being Southern, but again, they seem quite early all of them. The 'Hopi Purple' semi runner though, still hasn't even flowered. I'm losing hope for it at this point, it was sent to me as a gift by a SSE fellow who likely has a longer season that me (I'm guessing). The temperatures dropped quite a bit recently, low of 7C/45F at night and about 20C/68 F and less during the day this upcoming week. I suspect it will pick back up again for a little while but that is still pretty chilly.
Decoy1
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I very much like Bragançano too but I think of it as quite a late bean so I think yours is doing quite well to be producing now. For a number of years I grew it to have a snap bean for eating when many other varieties were past that stage and it worked well in that way.
