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

[heirloomgal]

I shelled the 'Stanley' bush bean pods tonight. That was a truly stellar green bean, a standout of 2025. And it stood out again as a sheller - it nearly drove me to madness. Those itty bitty pods all dried & suctioned onto the itty bitty seeds. There is no kind of bean more tedious to shell that this type. It's almost like a rice bean, with a greenish tinge to the white seeds, I'm done now - thank heavens!

 

[flowerbug]

I shelled the 'Stanley' bush bean pods tonight. That was a truly stellar green bean, a standout of 2025. And it stood out again as a sheller - it nearly drove me to madness. Those itty bitty pods all dried & suctioned onto the itty bitty seeds. There is no kind of bean more tedious to shell that this type. It's almost like a rice bean, with a greenish tinge to the white seeds, I'm done now - thank heavens!

yes, Venda is like that too, better to shell before they dry down completely. this remind me that i have some Provider to shell out at some time too. those seem to be larger beans but the pods are similar in how tough they are and how much work to get the seeds out and clean.

 

[P Suckling]

Always sad when the summer veg are finished, but an extra 3 weeks is not to be sneezed at. I bet you made good use of it.

I feel a bit cheated by our unusually early frost, but apart from one handpollinated squash that did not make it, everything else was still safely gathered in in time. And to get good looking seeds from the bean plants that were taken in as whole plants, was a definite bonus.

Enjoy shelling and sorting your beans, Russ.

 

[ruralmamma]

Technically we haven't had the "killing" frost yet, but ice has frozen several mornings. Coal Camp is still hanging on but otherwise I'm finished with beans. I was out early yesterday taking one of the metal trellises down and preparing to plant garlic. It was a chilly day, so I started the bean sorting and packaging to send back to Russ. I had to work hard on a few varieties to find sixty nice seeds, while I've been able to fill the packets on varieties that flourished. About 2/3 of the way through and will do a bean show afterwards.

 

[Blue-Jay]

Enjoy shelling and sorting your beans, Russ.

Thank you Petra. All the shelling is done and I'm going for a visit to a friend's place in Florida for a month and half. Novenber to middle of Decmeber. Will be sorting the beans when I return and preparing them for storage in a freezer. It will probably take me until the middle of January to do all of that but I enjoy it. I'll photo everything that was grown this past summer and post all the photos here on this thread as Russ's 2025 Bean Show .

 

[P Suckling]

Enjoy a really fab holiday in Florida, Russ.