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

[ducks4you]

We just got out of that heat advisory. Sorry that you have more to come!
I wouldn't worry too much about the beans. I started My bean adventure planting for a Fall harvest and I was able to freeze and can quite a bit, with a shorter growing season than yours.
If they don't like this heat, replant in September.

 

[ruralmamma]

We just got out of that heat advisory. Sorry that you have more to come!
I wouldn't worry too much about the beans. I started My bean adventure planting for a Fall harvest and I was able to freeze and can quite a bit, with a shorter growing season than yours.
If they don't like this heat, replant in September.

Happy to report they made it through the day unscathed. Planning to put a few more out tomorrow.

I'd honestly have to research a bit before I replanted at this point. I encountered a bean last year that took 90 days before flowering and I was constantly covering it from frost so I could harvest seed. I do have a few seeds of each of the network beans left but I'm protective.

I will have to say I've had nearly 100% germination from all of the network beans!

 

[heirloomgal]

Bean progress pics! I had to redneck it a bit with some temporary "fencing" until the plants are a bit bigger and I can remove it all, because a little brown furry beast has been hanging around for 2 weeks. I'll give him this - he has eaten nothing in my garden and seems only to be interested in the clover in the lawn. But still. Thank heavens he's a true old bush rabbit, so he likely has never eaten a garden plant. My dog has chased him off a few times, as have I, but he always comes back. No matter, soon enough the plants will be big enough that he won't be a concern. Plus, the fox is after him and visiting regularly.

These were extras that I couldn't part with. To be fair, I planted a bush bean in 6 pots that didn't sprout for nearly 2 weeks. I put all those pots aside and forgot about them, thinking I'd throw them out when I got a chance. And low and behold nearly a month after planting, in the driest pots imaginable, I see sprouts! So I wound up with 6 precious bush bean plants and no home for them! So they went into pots. Along with some others that I had no in ground room for. The box planter got moved to the driveway because ants were taking up residence in there in the backyard. I discovered if you bug the heck out of ants, they do eventually leave to get away from your incessant whacking & moving of their intended dwelling, and stomping on their friends at every available opportunity helps. It took 2 weeks, but they finally gave up and left.

Look left.

 

[flowerbug]

it is up to the queen, if you've been getting rid of her workers and disrupting them enough she may move, but more likely you may have just killed off enough of the workers that she's just started more up and they will be back once they are old enough to start foraging again.

if you'd dumped out the dirt and gone through and found the queen(s) and gotten rid of them they might be gone, but even then if you missed some they might not give up. most ant species start out from nothing other than themselves and they have enough energy to start over on their own again if needed - a few species will have a few workers tag along or they can be more community hive types, but those are few.

 

[flowerbug]

i think i have all the network beans up and growing. and then the many other beans i planted. i did not keep a list of the various out crosses i planted because there were a few dozen selections and almost none of them have even tentative names.

as usual my main bulk bean planting were the Yellow Eye and Purple Dove beans.

 

[flowerbug]

adzuki bean domestication

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.ads2871