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

[Blue-Jay]

@Blue-Jay, can you write more about the Skunk River Trout bean that @oxbow farm showed?

This comes out of Robert Lobitz material that I obtained from Ron Thuma of Hartford, Kansas in 2015. It had Robert's code number of #30B 97D-00M-03A. According to Robert Lobitz it is a Contender x Trout cross. I think that Robert had never worked with this coded bean other than probably being collected material from his bean gardens and given this number. Ron Thuma grew out this coded bean in 2009, 2010, and 2011. After 2011 Ron Thuma had made a notation maybe stable. I have grown this coded bean in 2015, 2017, 2020, and 2022. It did indeed seemed stable so I named it in 2022. I really feel this is an original bean of mine. It is 7 generations removed from the original seed stock collected by Robert. Some of Robert Lobitz's original named beans are from a bag of outcrossed seed from Dan Jason of Salt Spring Seeds in Canada.

So In honor of Robert Lobitz I named the bean after The Skunk River in Minnesota which is a 36.2 mile 58.25 km long tributary of the Platte River, flowing through Morrison County and eventually joining the Platte before it merges with the Mississippi River.

 

[Blue-Jay]

'Bela Putersnica' She makes my heart sing.

My grow out of this bean this year also looks similar to this. The yellow pods I have are now developing I think red streaks and speckles. I will have to take a photo today. The plants are just loaded with yellow pods. I'm hoping we escape any of our usual frosts in early October. The long range weather forecast is for above normal tempertures into November.