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

[flowerbug]

I believe it is called 'inverse' but reversal is perfectly understandable and it is caused by the way the bean seedcoat is formed, which is in layers. A seedsaving friend asked OSU years ago on my behalf, when I first discovered this with a cranberry type of bean. If the seedcoat starts to develop with the 'wrong' colouring, then there are then only one (or two) other colours available to form the rest of the seed coat. It develops in layers apparently. When conditions are not favourable, there is a slight increase in this happening. And of course inversed beans will grow into normally coloured beans again (with only a small percentage inversed). Pods with both types of seeds are rarer, but do happen, just like yours.

A blurry photo (sorry) of Gramma Walters is attached, which shows one normal seed (bottom right), 4 fully inverted, one half inverted and one partially inverted seed, ie where only a part of the seedcoat is inverted. Full inversion is the most common form, but with some beans partial inversions are possible.

oh, thanks for the information!

 

[heirloomgal]

Tonight I start to work at all the paper bags full of dried pods!

 

[Blue-Jay]

Today I finished shelling the last pods I have harvested. I will photo all of this years grown beans and start packing them in a freezer when I return home from Florida about the 18th of December. Still lots of work to do.

 

[heirloomgal]

Today I finished shelling the last pods I have harvested. I will photo all of this years grown beans and start packing them in a freezer when I return home from Florida about the 18th of December. Still lots of work to do.

You're done shelling all the 2025 pods @Bluejay?

 

[Blue-Jay]

You're done shelling all the 2025 pods @Bluejay?

Yes all done. I started shelling pods back in about middle of August and kept at it steadily when I wasn't doing something else. The whole harvest from 4,700 square feet 438 square meters gardening ground, I'll do my bean 2025 show in January,

 

[Blue-Jay]

The End Of A Bean Season



The Vines are now all bare


The Supports Are Now Bare Without Vines.


The Supports Are All Coming Down


The Empty Pods Are Ready For Shredding


The Vines Are Ready For Shredding


The Vines Have Now Met The Lawnmower


The Pods Are Now Just Little Pieces


The Remains Will Soon Become The Soils Organic Matter To Feed Another Summers Beans.