'Black Snake' is looking like it's getting in the 'safe' zone. I see bumps and feel like I've almost made it to home base! This is another bean that - for a bad year such as it's been for me - has done well against the odds.
I thought these pods were just the cutest, the seed bumps look like perfect circles or marbles. And the little curve in the pod shape, they're all little clones of one another. This is 'Blue & White of Bernardo'
@Blue-Jay , I'm regrowing them to replace the ones I sent last year that never arrived. I'm hoping for a bumper crop!
'Oude Sloveense Boterboon' beans. This is an especially victorious moment because these failed pretty bad last year for me. I'm thrilled to finally get some to grow! Buttery goodness.
Those aggressive cutworms killed every single 'Stibitz' plant, but this one, in June. I'm not sure the bean is 100% stable yet, as there was a little bit of variation in the mature seeds last year, so I'm curious if these will get the same color at maturity.
The pods on 'Quatre au Metre' amaze me. I find at a distance they look like cowpeas. I just love this bean, it's so unusual. The leaves are huge.
If anyone ever wondered, the pods on the 'Dule' bean are yellow! I'm going to need to check in with you in the fall @Bluejay to see if these got to you last year or not. Dule was a network bean last year.
When I put these 'Pisterzo' plants in the ground in June, I remember asking myself - why am I growing this? It's an easy to obtain bean from Salt Spring Seeds, sort of un-special to me really. I don't know what possessed me to even get the seeds. Somehow I assumed it was a white dry cooking bean, but I've since realized it's for fresh eating as well. It's pretty big and impressive, I like it! Glad now I didn't let the packet sit around collecting dust!
'Big Mama' - same story as 'Pisterzo'. Didn't seem special initially. I don't know why they call it 'big', it's small really, but the yield certainly fits that description. Very high yielder, excellent raw. Got it from a lady on the seed exchange. Looks like it has quite a history, possibly from Alabama. Some suggest it might be synonymous with 'Cherokee Black'.
The 'Sakaguchi Kang Wong' runner beans have not liked the heat this summer. The later blossoms didn't seem to take and the tips of the vines are bare, the first blooms pollinated and developed beans but I guess as the heat went on they just started to fall off. But, I overplanted so hopefully there will still be plenty of seeds.
