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

[Blue-Jay]

Wow! That's incredible @Blue-Jay! I looked at my Schneebohne seed compartment, and it's @Artorius that I got that bean from originally! We really have our own little bean universe here!

When I saw you post this bean on here last here I think it was last year. I just loved the light markings the bean has. It was so different. I had no idea that the bean was this productive. Yes we certainly have our own little bean triangle going. I grew the Kroatische bean I got from you also this year. Most of my Kroatische seed is winding up small but well formed.

 

[Blue-Jay]

Today I picked a pound .45 kilo of green beans. My south flowerbed this year contained 5 pole snap bean varieties. 13 poles with 4 beans planted around each pole. I picked all the seed that all the plants produced and then the plants started growing new leaves and went into bloom again. I've been eating fresh green beans for about the last 10 days. The plants are trying to produce a second flush of seed. I don't know if they would make it to seed so I'm going to keep picking fresh green beans. I've picked Delicous Giant, Green Savage, and San Fiarce. Mr. Tung hasn't gotten into the act yet and I think Missouri Wonder is finished for the season.

I think the pods on top of this container are delicious giant.

 

[heirloomgal]

I'm relieved that frost risk is out of the picture for the next week at least. Gives me a break from moving my last poles in and out of the carport everyday. I've got so many cardboard flats of beans that I'm having to try and speed dry them so we can use the public areas of the house again, so those are all being put out on the driveway in the sun everyday too. My sunroom dries them the fastest of all, but I've run out of room in there at this point.

That 'Ohio Pole' bean is such an odd variety. Took a moment to look closely at them drying in the sun today. I really seemed to have gotten a nice big crop of beans from the plants; those pods are so big and squishy, almost like they're made of foam. Weirdest pods I think I've seen yet. And I can see that they take longer to dry than most pods because of that unusual texture/substance those pods are made of. I'd be curious for any other growers here on the thread what your impressions are of that bean? I think it's edible as a snap bean, has anyone tried it?

 

[Oxford]

Took a photo of both Schneebohne poles today. I was impressed.

Very very impressive!
Is that the 'Mongeta de la Neu' (English: Snow Bean, German: Schneebohne) from Catalonia/ Spain?
I have got some bean seeds of varieties from Catalonia - sometimes there is an advantage working in the financial services industry that has back offices somewhere in Europe and people that you can ask to arrange getting some local seeds - but I didn't get this Mongeta de la Neu yet. I will add it on my must-have list.

 

[ruralmamma]

@Oxford, beautiful beans! I've also gotten some amazing blues from Nona Agnes, Meerbarbe and September Blue this year.

The few days of rain and the cooler nights have affected my harvest too. I was apprehensive about the thick spongy pods of Rose, but it's actually Rosey's Red and Arlington Red Cranberry that's suffered the most, with the latter not producing enough viable seed to return to @Blue-Jay.

 

[Oxford]

@Oxford, beautiful beans! I've also gotten some amazing blues from Nona Agnes, Meerbarbe and September Blue this year.

The few days of rain and the cooler nights have affected my harvest too. I was apprehensive about the thick spongy pods of Rose, but it's actually Rosey's Red and Arlington Red Cranberry that's suffered the most, with the latter not producing enough viable seed to return to @Blue-Jay.

I got like two "varieties" of Sea Barb/ Meerbarbe. The ones that look like usual and the late ones are smaller and have a slightly different color of purple. I first assumed that they are from one plant only, but when I tracked back the stipes it seems that it must be more than one plant. I separated them now and next year I will grow both, the blue ones and the purple ones and compare them.

All my beans have more intense colors due to the rainy and cold "summer weather".

I had the same problem with my True Red Cranberry that really suffered:

 

[Blue-Jay]

Is that the 'Mongeta de la Neu' (English: Snow Bean, German: Schneebohne) from Catalonia/ Spain?

Is it from Catalonia Spain? I acquired the bean from heirloomgal and her information was that it was from Germany.
Mongeta de la Neu is this the Spanish name for the bean?

 

[Artorius]

That 'Ohio Pole' bean is such an odd variety. Took a moment to look closely at them drying in the sun today. I really seemed to have gotten a nice big crop of beans from the plants; those pods are so big and squishy, almost like they're made of foam. Weirdest pods I think I've seen yet. And I can see that they take longer to dry than most pods because of that unusual texture/substance those pods are made of. I'd be curious for any other growers here on the thread what your impressions are of that bean? I think it's edible as a snap bean, has anyone tried it?

@heirloomgal, if the pods remain soft for a long time, check to see if the seeds are germinating inside. Last year, I had a large number of cracked and sprouted seeds inside Ohio Pole pods.

 

[Artorius]

Very very impressive!
Is that the 'Mongeta de la Neu' (English: Snow Bean, German: Schneebohne) from Catalonia/ Spain?
I have got some bean seeds of varieties from Catalonia - sometimes there is an advantage working in the financial services industry that has back offices somewhere in Europe and people that you can ask to arrange getting some local seeds - but I didn't get this Mongeta de la Neu yet. I will add it on my must-have list.

@Oxford, Schneebohne and Mongeta de la Neu are two different beans. I'm sure of this because I have seeds from both and can compare them.

 

[Artorius]

I had the same problem with my True Red Cranberry that really suffered:

When I grew True Red Cranberry two years ago, I also had this problem. Not all the seeds colored properly. It was similar with the Low's Champion bean, which has seeds of the same shape and color but grows as a bush.