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

[SusanneinHastings]

very nice looking seeds from Andikove. i could get some but not very many that looked that nice.

I have to say this plant did not seem awfully productive. It averaged about three mature seeds per pod, admittedly it was in a pot.

We are eating a very tasty yellow wax bean this year, one of the American Seed no-names from the 25 cent rack at Menards. I will have to save the seed.

 

[SusanneinHastings]

I have got a handful of unknown bean seeds where it was told to me that they should come from Stryria. … One is this variety with moon-like pods. They are currently 5cm / 2 inch long. I have no clue what it could be. I don't assume it's a Kipfler variety because the pods are flat and not round like Kipfler. And they are more curled than "Marmorierter Mond". But they are very beautiful.

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I have a relative traveling to Germany soon so I looked up Kipferlbohne and found some promising shops in Germany using that term. I could order and she could carry it back here. I visited in January and looked eagerly for beans after reading about German regional heirloom beans online, but the town (Bavaria) was quite bean free. Even the Biomarkt and Reformhaus (the organic/healthy foods shops) had only little packages of pinto and black soybeans. And when I looked at the big online German shops they had a lot of varieties that are common in America. So I didn’t end up bringing any back.

These shops are smaller and didn’t show up on my searches for seed before. Some interesting looking things:
https://shop.garten-des-lebens.de/samenfestes-saatgut/bohnen-und-erbsen/
https://das-lavendelhaus.com/produkt-kategorie/gemuese/bohnen/

But this Brezel (English - pretzel) bean looks fabulous. It is an Austrian shop though, I don’t know how problematic to order and ship to Germany.

https://ybbser-kraeutergarten.at/produkt/brezelbohne-samen/

 

[jbrobin09]

Well, it’s been a terrible year for beans here. Our summer up until August only had a handful of days that broke 20C (none over 25C) so the beans germinated but not well. They were quite sickly. We finally got some heat in August but we are almost at our fall frost date so some of them won’t produce seed most likely as they didn’t start flowering until end of August. I didn’t put all my beans in one basket () - I reserved half the packets of network beans so I can try again if needed.

I will get some seed from pole bean Carminat, which I planted in a large pot on my deck. (I may do more of that next year if we have a cool start again.) It’s my first time growing Carminat and it is a very tasty snap bean! Highly recommend. It also seems fairly productive despite the cool weather.

 

[flowerbug]

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I will get some seed from pole bean Carminat, which I planted in a large pot on my deck.[...]

very nice looking purple bean.

sorry it has ben a tough year...