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

[P Suckling]

I hope you don’t mind me stepping in here but I think the link doesn’t have all the information. This one might lead to the fuller page

Bohnen-Atlas - Detailansicht

Der Bohnen-Atlas ist Nachschlagewerk für Bohnensorten. Er beinhaltet Beschreibungen, die durch Bilder und Kommentare der Nutzer erweitert werden können.

www.bohnen-atlas.de

Sorry of if I’ve created confusion though. Links are a bit chancy sometimes.

No confusion at all, thank you for the extra info Decoy. Appreciated.

 

[Blue-Jay]

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.

I checked my freezer files and there were no new entries made for the bean last year. Actually Dule is not listed at all on my freezer files so all the packets that I had were sent out. You will be the only grower that will be returning Dule. Other growers failed to make returns.

 

[Oxford]

Is it a dry bean? It’s beautiful.

The pods are stringless, so, I use them as green beans when the pods are yellow i.e. before becoming red-speckled and they have a wax bean texture and taste.

 

[Oxford]

I'm asking because I've noticed that the plants whose roots I damaged while removing weeds and those heavily undermined by moles are dying. It appears that common beans are very sensitive to root damage at a certain stage of their growth. However, runner beans and limas never died out.

I have the same experience.

When I mow the lawn, I dry the grass and use it as mulch around the bean plants. In addition, I keep annual flowers such as poppies, borage, etc. This prevents weeds from growing (and redirects the bumblebees to the flowers). This way, I can leave the plants (and their roots) undisturbed.

The mulch also keeps moisture in the soil and it dries out less.

 

[Oxford]

And you have 5 seeds in a pod, is this usual for you or an exception? Mine tend to have 4 only by and large. There must be something that makes your garden particularly suited to them. I harvested pods at this stage in early October, not in mid August. The seeds look identical.

Yes, I usually have 5 seeds, followed by 4 and 3.

I have never thought about how many seeds there should be per pod. Only a few pods are already dry. The vast majority will be dry by the end of September.

My observation is that, especially in years when May and June are already hot and dry—like this year—many varieties develop a first batch of beans by the end of June, and these are already dry by mid-August.
In addition, for varieties where I know they need warm conditions and are late, I choose the warmest locations in the garden.