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

[Branching Out]

Sultan's Gold Crescent. Maybe not quite as curly as yours, @Branching Out ? So perhaps Anellino Giallo is more likely.

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Amazing similarity but I agree that my beans curl quite a bit more.

 

[Blue-Jay]

That seems to have happened to me this year, on three trout/cattle pattern beans I bought from Russ's store. Some were more extreme than others. The Jacob's Cattle Amish was supposed to do this very little, and the color/white balance is still pretty good. Not as much white as what I planted, but it got really hot here for several weeks while the pods were filling.

The beans that you got from me were grown in a lighter soil than the place I'm growiing beans this year. My original named bean Pawnee was grown in Belgium one year with soil that had a lot of organic matter added to it and it just looked marvelous. Lots of white with very fine spotting in the white area and a smaller brown eye patch than what I get when I grow the bean here. I think soil type does also haa some influence. Often Pawnee grown here will be larger a brown bean.. Later in the year when I do my Bean Show I will show a photo of Pawnee grown in 2013 in a different soil in my county and a photo of the bean that I grew this year in a differeant place.

Oxbow Farm did you get a good size grop of beans from all the ones you got from me this year?

 

[oxbow farm]

Oxbow Farm did you get a good size grop of beans from all the ones you got from me this year?

I've gotten good amounts of seed or dry pods from all the beans I got from you except Hiawatha. I just noticed the first maturing pods on the Hiawatha the other day, but I don't have any harvested yet. It is far enough along that I should get a good amount of seed. There are pleanty of full pods that I could harvest green if we had a danger of a super early frost.

 

[heirloomgal]

Sultan’s Gold Crescent came immediately into my mind. I was hoping I had a photo but unfortunately not. Perhaps later today.

I thought of that one too, but given the Italian connection I guessed in that direction. A few years ago I had 2 separate people gift me with seeds for yellow crescent beans, one Annelino Giallo, one Sultan's Golden Crescent; that planting year I went to all my samples picking out what to grow and realized that the seeds for each of them were exactly the same. It got me wondering if it's the same bean? This year I'm growing another yellow crescent of German origin, can't think of it this minute, but I should make a point to see if the seeds for that one are similar too.