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

[ruralmamma]

It feels like that part of trick or treating when your bag is really starting to fill up and you're just itching to get home and dump it to see everything you've got!

Same here! I harvested my first Arlington Red Cranberry pod last evening and was so elated!

 

[heirloomgal]

Has anyone here grown the pole bean 'Fagiolo de la Bereta'? Also known as 'Bareta, de la B.' according to Belle Epoque Meisse. I'm growing it for the 2nd time and finding that again it doesn't seem like a super healthy variety, just not really vigorous and lush. I'm wondering if this is typical for this variety? It is a stunningly gorgeous bean and I wonder if it was selected toward that beauty at the cost of other things.

 

[SusanneinHastings]

Oxford, thank you for all the bean shoulder information! I am making my list now. Also for pointing out the Bretzelbohne is actually Vicia not phaseolus. But now I have an excuse perhaps to order it for the “soldiers garden” at the site.

Frost bean is drying surprisingly quickly! So I went Easter egg hunting too.

Some non-network beans coming ready too. The only one I have not seen so far is the Tarbais, unless I have somehow confused it with the Gigantes, because if is next to them. Also the Gigantes don’t seem as big as I remember from Greece, although of course there are different conditions here.
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It will be lots of fun to have these different eye-catching beans in the site kitchen next year. I am already making a list of network beans for next season, although we have a heat wave. It was going to be my week to start digging ew beds for them but I don’t feel like working outside!